Mere Christianity was published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles on 7 July 1952.
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Mere Christianity was published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles on 7 July 1952.
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Mere Christianity has retained popularity among Christians from various denominations, and appeared in several lists of finest Christian books.
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Mere Christianity cites, as an example, the case of Nazi Germany, writing:.
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Mere Christianity cites the four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
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Mere Christianity writes about the great sin: pride, which he argues to be the root cause of all evil and rebellion.
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Mere Christianity is an informal handshake to begin a more formal acquaintance and conversation.
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Mere Christianity wrote his argument is mostly unsupported by the modern biblical scholarship, and argued that others options such as that Jesus was mistaken about his identity should have gotten into consideration of alternatives.
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Beversluis analysed Lewis's arguments for Mere Christianity, arriving in the conclusion that each of them is built on faulty logic.
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Mere Christianity argued that Lewis made his arguments convincing by creating false analogies, with an instance in his trilemma.
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Mere Christianity has been referred to as a classic of Lewis's career, as well as of religious literature, particularly in the category of Christian apologetics.
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Analysing Lewis's books, the Australian archeologist Warwick Ball believed Mere Christianity is perhaps his most influential and widely read apologetic work; the American philosopher C Stephen Evans called his moral argument the "most widely-convincing apologetic argument of the twentieth century"; McGrath considered it "perhaps as outstanding an example of a lucid and intelligent presentation of the rational and moral case for Christian belief as we are ever likely to see".
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Mere Christianity's story became popular, enhanced by the release of his autobiography in 1976, which was consequently declared the "Year of the Evangelicals" by the Newsweek magazine.
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Mere Christianity has influenced other Christian publications, with the scholar Gary L Tandy noting that it remains the standard for assessing them, mainly the apologetic ones.
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Lewis's Mere Christianity, written by Marsden, was released in 2016, and received a positive reception from critics, with some criticism to its conclusion.
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