Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Essay

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a book of thirty –one letters in which a retired, senior demon named Screwtape coaches his newly educated nephew, Wormwood. Wormwood is quite troubled when it comes to tempting his “patient.” Nevertheless, he need not fear because faithful uncle Screwtape has offered his services. A unique character featured in the letters is, “The Enemy.” This character refers to God, the natural enemy of Satan. Of course Satan is referred to as “Our Lord.” In the letters, and Wormwood and Screwtape try their very best to please Satan and bring him glory. Although the book is written from the demons’ perspective, Lewis naturally uses it to highlight important truths of the Christian faith.

John Lewis’ Christian Faith started at a very early age. His uncle gave him the gift of the Bible on Lewis’ fourth Christmas. While growing up on a chicken farm in Alabama Lewis mentions, “Growing up, what I really wanted to be was a preacher. my uncle gave me a bible for Christmas when I was four” (Lewis and Aydin March 1:26). In other words, Lewis didn’t have the same dreams as other kids. For example, many children dream of becoming pro athletes, musicians, or doctors. The gift he received set Lewis’ heart on becoming a minister. John Lewis’ simple life of chicken farming in Alabama, and his idea of what his role would be in the world, grew suddenly. He declares, “I imagined that they

To back his claims Lewis then presents eight proofs to show the reader what he is discussing more clearly. The eight proofs are stilted comparisons, justification of individual corruption for being part of a sinful system, belief that time dims sin, acclimation to low social norms, thinking that which is moral to man is moral to God, focusing on a specific trait and ignoring all others, failure to obeying God’s rules and then protesting about them being overly moral, and finally excusing moral failures on biology and evolution rather than attempting a change. These all fit into the two causes that Lewis

Book 3 of Mere Christianity contains 12 separate chapters, which has far too great a scope to address properly here, so a glimpse will have to suffice. In the first, Lewis examines three components of morality; the relations between men, the interior moral mechanics of a man, and the relationship between a man and the God who made him. Lewis makes the case that, since we are destined to live forever in one state or another, it is desperately important that we pay attention to the sort of Being we are becoming. Lewis points out that most of humanity can agree that keeping relations between men running smoothly are important, but varying world views and religions-or lack of religion, have produced some disagreements on the necessity of keeping one’s own ship in order, as it were, and it completely breaks down when the relationship between a man and his Maker are addressed, as there is virtually no agreement there.

Lewis a notable Christian writer dives deep into faith through his book Mere Christianity which can be compared to Wheelwright’s faith. He identifies two key degrees of faith. The first level describes knee-deep Christians by specifying faith as “accepting or regarding as true the doctrines of Christianity” (138). This description compares to Wheelwright in his bluntness belief in God. This faith Meany wants for Wheelwright C.S. Lewis depicts as the second level of faith. Lewis means a faith that one creates by “really finding out by experience that it is true” (146). This faith would mean believing God exists through personal encounters. One could argue that Wheelwright finds a deeper faith through his experiences but the events that occur relate more to Meany than they do to God. Even as Wheelwright claims to believe in God, he clarifies that he “makes no claims to have a life in Christ, or with Christ—and certainly not for Christ” (1). Wheelwright develops a faith greater than some Christians but it looks twisted as it runs through

This month we were assigned to read the last book of Mere Christianity. Chapter one talks about God’s relation to us as followers of Christ. Chapter two discusses the Trinity, and how even though there are three parts he is a personal God. Chapter three addressed God with time. God is not in the past or future, but he is in the present.

Lewis continued his relationship with Paddy Moore's mother and sister. Much so, that the two women ended up moving in with Lewis. The mother was Mrs. Janie King Moore and her daughter Maureen. The two woman were devout Christians and were also very patient and kind to Lewis. After time, it wore off on the rough and argumentative man. Slowly, Lewis' eyes opened up to the possibility of Christ. However, he didn't surrender that easily. After living with the two woman for a while, Mrs. Moore's brother (who was an ex-veteran of the British army) came to visit the three friends. The man was shortly dubbed "Doc" by Lewis and they became very close friends. While "Doc" stayed with Lewis and the women, Lewis learned that "Doc" was undergoing mental torture of past war experiences. Lewis saw that "Doc" was living in a mental hell and had a small spiritual awakening open up in himself. Sorrowfully,

Over the years, C.S. Lewis has managed to entertain countless readers in his writings with his "diverse ability to marry imagination and reason in his writings and helped provide answers for many philosophical and theological questions." C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. Having lost his mother at the age of ten, his father, Albert sent Lewis and his brother away to a school in Watford, England. due to respatory issues, Lewis' father sent him to another school in Malvern, England. In his time spent in Malvern, Lewis decided to abandon his family's Christian faith and became an Atheist and remained unhappy at his new school in Malvern. Later on his father got him a tutor, William T. Kirkpatrick, only then did Lewis

We have now come to the fourth and final book of Mere Christianity. In this book, the author takes us to the place in our Christian growth where we begin to rely more heavily on the power of God and less on ourselves to become the being that God originally intended for us to be — a son of God. He begins with an explanation of the difference between “making” and “begetting”.

Lewis, successful in standards of earth and mind, (Appositive) activates his paper by stating that [1] no matter what happens after you pray for something; you cannot prove that it was in account of your prayers. [2] He states that people can always use the argument that it could have happened even if you would not have prayed for it. [3] (#5) When you pray for something, even if a miraculous event happens after you do it, you cannot prove that it happened because of your petitions. Lewis, acting like then states the argument in these words; (Quotation) “The thing we pray for may happen, but how can you ever know it was not going to happen anyway.” [4] Lewis then goes on the rebuff that anti-Christian argument by stating that you believe in

To describe what Christians believe, according to C. S. Lewis, is through his concept in what he had experienced from being an atheist to a Christian. In his belief from his experience as an atheist, he believed that all religions of the whole world are all wrong. If you are a Christian “you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth” (Lewis C. S., 2001, eBook). Lewis experienced as an atheist; he had to persuade himself to believe that most human beings were always wrong about the matter that concern them the most, the existence of God. Lewis experienced, and his expression as an atheist gave him a better output to the reality of the truth of Christian’s belief. When religion

C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, an influential composition of Biblical opinion, promotes the Gospel first through live broadcasts during World War II and now as a major premise in theological discussions. It was Friday, September 1st, 1939 when the course of the war changed drastically for Great Britain. James Welch, the Director of Religious Broadcasting at the British Broadcasting Company was interrupted during The Daily Service with a note that pensively stated, “Germany invaded Poland early this morning” (Phillips 1). As the months dragged eternally on, the radio waves carried with them increasingly tragic news, degrading what was left of Britain's morale. Welch stated, “In a time of uncertainty and questioning it is the responsibility

According to Lewis in Book III, chapter 1 ‘The three parts of morality,’ Lewis speaks on how morality is made up of three parts. The first part is the human and human relationships between one another, which is the part of morality that most people think about. An individual self-care, or inner human is the second. Lewis refers to this part as a ship constantly going in the ocean and how everything such as the engines, and the steering gears work together efficiently in order to create such a smooth seaworthy craft.

    Surprised by Joy is essentially an account of those factors that brought Lewis to a mature, adult Christian faith. Lewis begins his work with an overview of the Lewis household and his early schooling. “The reality Lewis found on the pages of his parents' extensive library seems as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that occurred in the "outside" world” (Hannay 41). Lewis depicts himself and brother, William, as absolute confidants who share their deepest longings and secrets--all in the security of their parents' home. The tranquility and sanctity of the Lewis home is shattered by the death of his mother; the rest of his saga becomes the melancholy search for the

Proponents of an absolute definition of morals suggest that there is a defined right and wrong and that acting in a way that is virtuous or immoral, respectively, determines one’s fate in the afterlife. This is not universal, as the behaviors deemed as moral depend on religious custom, and both the benefits and penalties of adhering to them require a shared belief. One such scholar, Immanuel Kant believed “the moral law must carry with it absolute necessity” (Kant 2). A contemporary Christian viewpoint is that a practicing Christian is inherently sinful and must find salvation through belief, this presupposes that man is immoral from birth.