The book club will begin Monday, April 9, as an online book club that will take place across Facebook, Twitter and in the comments of this blog. For three weeks, starting Monday, we will post a new discussion topic every few days (with its own hashtag for Twitter) that we invite you to discuss with your fellow readers.
To participate, just follow C. S. Lewis on Facebook and Twitter or watch for new posts here on the blog. When you see a new topic posted, we welcome you to share your thoughts and questions.
We will be joined on occasion by Mickey Maudlin, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of C. S. Lewis books for HarperOne who will be chiming in with his unique perspective and insights.
We look forward to sharing this reading experience with you and hope that new readers of the book as well as long time fans come away with an enriched understanding of one of Lewis’ most legendary works.
Join us!
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/cslewis, follow hashtag: #merebook
About Mere Christianity
Regarded as the centerpiece of Lewis’s apologetics, Mere Christianity began as a series of live fifteen-minute radio talks that Lewis gave, under the auspices of the BBC, during WWII. Characterized by careful reasoning, vivid analogies, and Lewis’s gift for making complex religious ideas immediately accessible, the broadcasts were overwhelmingly successful, so popular that Lewis was besieged with letters from listeners.
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4.09.2012
Introducing the Mere Christianity Online Book Club
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To read the logic Lewis presents in Mere Christianity is what has made me recommend this book to secular friends. He tells you from the perspective of a once non-believer to a believer in Jesus as Savior - a very personal and miraculous journey for each one of us.
Certainly the naked testimony of conversion has instilled in, itself, the potent power of a viable seed. In good ground, there will be a good harvest. As promised, the sower will also reap the reward of commendation from our Lord to His Father for those who did not deny Him but professed Him.
The potent gift of our dear professor greatly multiplied the individual sower's potency- and that by more than mere public broadcasting. C. S. Lewis sketched a complex Christian concept in deliciously digestible poetry, hung it easily in the mind's eye, painted a complex and plausible rebuttal, and smoothly resolved the inevitable believer's conclusion.
Surely the fruit accounted him for harvesting is a hundred fold!
How can I express how much this book means to me? It's no easy feat to be able to crystallize for a mass audience the depths of rich teaching found in the word of God. Yet Lewis does it as if he had personally had a discussion with the Lord himself. I need to re-read this book right now!
I'm lingering in 'the hallway' too long.
I post Mere Christianity quotes all the time on FB and get a good response.
God used this book to show me sins I needed to deal with, after I was abandoned by my husband. I credit Mere Christianity as one tool used by the Holy Spirit to awaken my understanding of Christianity and then moving me forward with my life in Jesus Christ. I attended church for forty years before I learned this. It has been thirty-five years since that time and God has taught me even more. I continue to grow in my relationship with the Three in One.
God used this book to show me sins I needed to deal with, after I was abandoned by my husband. I credit Mere Christianity as one tool used by the Holy Spirit to awaken my understanding of Christianity and then moving me forward with my life in Jesus Christ. I attended church for forty years before I learned this. It has been thirty-five years since that time and God has taught me even more. I continue to grow in my relationship with the Three in One.
Mere Christianity was offered to me by a very spiritual friend and it has brought me closer to God. It is the penultimate work on understanding Christianity for me. Lewis' clear and concise words are the key to understandig the word of God.
This is such a brilliant idea. I love this books. I even started a blog about it myself.. http://classiccslewis.blogspot.co.uk/
I keep meaning to post more so I am glad that you have taken up the same idea!
Thank you for setting this up! Look forward to gleaning and participating!
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I am speechless at the depth of this book. Where was it all my life? I have passed it on to friends and would be clergy women and men. I know it will impact their lives as it has done mine.
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