John Lennox – like Lewis, an Oxford don and Northern Irishman – describes what it was like to hear Lewis speak in the flesh. Mere Christianity has only grown in popularity, decade after decade, and in this episode of Life & Faith Simon and Natasha hear from a number of people who have loved this book and would even say that it changed their lives. Later he referred to his account of what he believed as “mere” Christianity – the faith that has been common to Christians everywhere and at all times, explained in ways that stirred people’s imaginations and satisfied their intellectual curiosity.

Lewis spoke to his fellow citizens, during a time of crisis and hardship, about the nature of reality, morality, human nature, God, and the meaning of life. On Wednesday 6 August 1941, a relatively unknown Oxford don fronted up to a microphone at the BBC in London to give the first of a series of talks that would evolve into what is probably one of the most influential books of the 20th century – one which continues to have ripple effects well into the 21st.Ĭ. “I got out a yellow pad, cause I’m a lawyer, and I would have two columns – there is a God, there isn’t a God Jesus Christ is God, he isn’t God – I went down that, and I went through the whole rational process and I thought to myself wow … I’ve never gone into a courtroom and argued against a mind like this.

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