Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity is a novel that explains the meaning of life through a religion view. The book is broken into 4 separate parts or books: Right and Wrong as a clue to the Meaning of the Universe, What Christians Believe, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality: or First steps in the Doctrine of Trinity. The book was originally a radio talk that was converted into a novel. The overall tone of the book is very serious and majority of the book has emphasis by Lewis on the roles of Christianity and what their view would be on a particular subject. Subjects in the book ranged from the law of human nature to Christian beliefs to Christian behavior and to the new men. Lewis uses many forms of exaggeration to represent his wanting or desire for the reader to clearly understand. Lewis made strong points on particular things like charity, the great sin and faith.
Lewis’ first book is prominently about the “Law of Human Nature.” The law of human nature is the sense/value of right and wrong that we all seem to share. It is basically some universal standard of behavior that we all appeal to. A sense of the law of human nature is when people dispute or argue over what seems to be “fair” or “unfair.” C.S Lewis emphasizes multiple times throughout the chapter how when people quarrel or argue they demonstrate this law or theory. Lewis also brings up the point that people defend their own wrong actions with excuses, but denying that some rules exist, while in reality this is all part of the concept of the “law of human nature.” Next, Lewis begins to explain moral relativism and how the differences between cultural moral norms are very small and how we as a group or nation see that NONE of us can live up to the moral standards that we find internally encoded. In conclusion to the first chapter, Lewis ends with this statement: “We know what we ought to do but we