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050	0		_aBR123 _b.L484 1952
100	1		_aLewis, C. S. _q(Clive Staples), _d1898-1963.
245	1	0	_aMere Christianity : _ba revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality / _cby C.S. Lewis.
260			_aNew York : _bMacmillan, _c1952.
300			_axiv, 175 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as The case for Christianity (1943), Christian behaviour (1943), and Beyond personality (1945)"--Pref.
505	0		_aRight and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe. The law of human nature ; Some objections ; The reality of the law ; What lies behind the law ; We have cause to be uneasy -- What Christians believe. The rival conceptions of God ; The invasion ; The shocking alternative ; The perfect penitent ; The practical conclusion -- Christian behaviour. The three parts of morality ; The "cardinal virtues" ; Social morality ; Morality and psychoanalysis ; Sexual morality ; Christian marriage ; Forgiveness ; The great sin ; Charity ; Hope ; Faith ; Faith -- Beyond personality, or, First steps in the doctrine of the Trinity. Making and begetting ; The three-personal God ; Time and beyond time ; Good infection ; The obstinate toy soldiers ; Two notes ; Let's pretend ; Is Christianity hard or easy? ; Counting the cost ; Nice people or new men ; The new men.
520			_aIn this one-volume edition, Mr. Lewis explains that his purpose is not to convert to any single denomination, but to prove that in the centre of each "there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice." It is this central core of agreement that leads the author to speak of the nobility of a "mere" Christianity.
650		0	_aTheology, Doctrinal _vPopular works.
650		0	_aApologetics.
650		0	_aChristian ethics _xAnglican authors.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. _tMere Christianity. _dNew York : Macmillan, 1952 _w(OCoLC)646984381
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