"Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis: The book was adapted from a 1943 BBC radio lecture broadcast while Lewis was at Oxford (during World War II). I haven't searched to find the archive of the radio broadcast because iTunes had audible.com version and I had the Lewis anthology but it would be interesting to contrast the radio broadcast with the audio book.
Mere Christianity presents a case for Truth and popular objections to Christianity (Christian Apologetics). I've been working with other men lately to discover "core biblical truths" and the Lewis contributed to my thinking this past week in the first two chapters by distilling what he called "Moral Law" (Rule about Right and Wrong)commonly known to all human beings which include the suggestion that we should strive toward "fairness" and "unselfishness". He shares his thoughts in direct contrast to the "laws of Nature" presented in mathematics and science of the time.
In the first two chapters he seems to aim at defining "Christianity" as something beyond "Goodness" and lands at the fundamental teachings of the Christian religion. It seems that his intended audience was intellectuals of the 1940s whom some of which understood the jargon of formal Christian Theology. Important to the context was WWII and Hitler who was doing wrong, my almost everyone's standard, even non-religious persons.
Next up; Mere Christianity - Atonement (Chapter 3+)
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Heard from Kevin that we may be meeting at Porters on River Road...
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