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[[Image:MereChristianity.JPG|thumb|center]] |
subtopics = [[C.S. Lewis]]
* [[Mere Christianity]]* [[Trilemma argument]] |
opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |
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The title, Mere Christianity, indicates the intention of Lewis 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 arguesthe so-called [[Trilemma Argument]]:
: ''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.''
