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{{quote | text=A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things [[Jesus]] said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of [[God]], or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. (An extract from Mere Christianity).}}
{{Infobox_Contents |topic_name ==Synopsis==Mere Christianity[[Image:MereChristianity.JPG|thumb|The centerZThe cover of the book]]|subtopics = [[C.S. Lewis]]* [[Mere Christianity]] |opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}
Mere Christianity is a well known book by [[C.S. Lewis]] that discusses some of the major fundamental teachings of [[Christianity]].
The title, Mere Christianity, indicates the intention of Lewis, an [[Anglican]], to describe the [[Christian]] common-ground. He aims at avoiding controversies to explain those things that have defined [[Christianity]] in nearly all places and times. Lewis restates the fundamental teachings of the Christianity, for the sake of those basically educated as well as the intellectuals of his generation, for whom the jargon of formal Christian theology did not retain its intended meaning.
Of course, the book has not been received entirely without controversy. For example, the chronicle of Lewis's conversion from [[atheism]] contains some of the author's reasons for believing which, as may be expected, some have found to be compelling while others have found unconvincing. Lewis famously argues:
: ''A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.''
Mere Christianity is widely admired and influential across a spectrum of Christians, which may attest to the author's success in accomplishing the aim of restating theology in a way that avoids many controversies.
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==Links==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/people/cslewis_16.shtml BBC - Recording of C.S. Lewis delivering the chapter "The New Men"]
{{returnto}} [[Chrisitan literature]]
[[Category:Christian literature]]