Lucas’s Reviews > Mere Christianity > Status Update

The value of this book is in its structure. The critical, relentless way in which it reasons through everything, taking great care to leave no stone unturned. From a strong starting point, you instantly understand, and if not instantly agree, then will reason about it and ultimately see the reason in Lewis’s conclusions. A brilliant man, I see now, a shining example of critical thinking and logical reasoning.

I understand now, why this book is so chiefly recommended by people of faith. A part of me, in my arrogance, even still until the moment I pored over the pages myself, had a variably sized believe that “Mere Christianity” was just one of those things that people gave status because it had status. I thought that maybe people gave it value because people gave it value. I am very glad that is not the case.

thing, willingly doing the one thing, that is the opposite of His nature. God is *choosing* to die. The one thing He would never have to do. And he does it on our behalf. The way Lewis reasons his way through the purpose for Christ’s coming, death, and resurrection is the way I *needed* to hear it for so many years growing up in church without what I felt any intellectualism truly to stand on. Now it’s the very

There’s too much to write. Return to these pages throughout your life, please. I’m begging you.

The thing that strikes me most is finally the understanding that Christ dying on the cross couldn’t have been “so easy for Him” because “He was God, so what does it matter?” as I pretty much thought before in my life, but that in that moment, and throughout Jesus’s whole life, that it is God doing the one

Food for the soul and mind. My favorite kind.

Sound logic, sound philosophy, sound theology, even though there’s not much theology to speak of here, just “mere” Christianity.

I enjoyed giving thought to the idea that when we compare two things relatively, that we are silently admitting an independent standard that we’re comparing them against. Something that is “better” is closer to that standard.

Solid logic, solid observations. More to be said, but no time now. Will chew on this!

“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different the saints.”

If that doesn’t distill what allows for human flourishing, I don’t know what will!

I wonder, just from reading the jacket, what Soren Kierkegaard would think of C.S. Lewis and his “powerful, rational case for the Christian faith.”

Can Faith be rational? Or is it inherently absurd? I believe it most certainly can be rational. Looking forward to diving into this one.