![]() ![]() Lewis, but each of us might learn from him how best to communicate our faith to others. Given the remarkable successes of this book, an edifying question to ask is, What were the qualities of Lewis’s communication of the faith that made it so lastingly effective? None of us is another C.S. But it was not until 1952 that he collected them into one volume with a new introduction as Mere Christianity. Lewis had these published as separate little booklets soon after the broadcasts. It arose out of four sets of radio addresses that Lewis gave on the BBC during some very stressful years of World War II, from 1941 to 1944. Mere Christianity was not even originally written to be a book. New York Times columnist David Brooks quipped that when he was contemplating commitment to Christianity, acquaintances sent him about three hundred books, “only a hundred of which were different copies of C.S. It is still the favorite go-to book for those considering Christianity or having doubts about their faith. In English alone, it has reached something like four million copies since 2001. ![]() Lewis’s Mere Christianity so lastingly compelling? While most books fade in popularity, Lewis’s apologetic volume has sold even better in the twenty-first century than it did when it was first published. ![]()
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