C. S. LEWISS MERE CHRISTIANITY

George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglicanfamously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night with his friends J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugh Dysonand how Lewis delivered his wartime talks t o a traumatized British nation in the midst of an all-out war for survival. Marsden recounts how versions of those talks were collec ted together in 1952 under the title Mere Christianity, and how the book went on to become one of the most widely read presentations of essenti...[Read more]