There is a reason Mere Christianity has remained in continuous print since 1952 and has introduced more skeptics to the Christian faith than perhaps any other book written in the modern era. C.S. Lewis was a man of extraordinary gifts — a literary scholar, a mythopoeic imagination, a former atheist who came to faith through reason — and in this book he brought all of those gifts to bear on the most important question any human being faces.

Lewis’s goal was not to argue for any particular branch of Christianity but for the thing itself — the basic architecture of Christian belief that believers across denominations share. He begins with the moral law, the experience of “oughtness” that every human being carries, and argues that it points inescapably to a moral Lawgiver. From there he builds, with patience and precision, the case for theism, then Christian theism, then the divinity of Christ.

The famous “trilemma” chapter — Lewis’s argument that Jesus was either Lord, liar, or lunatic, and cannot be reduced to a mere moral teacher — has equipped generations of believers to answer the most common dismissal of Christianity in the modern era. His chapter on pride as the ultimate sin, and his treatment of Christian morality as not a restriction on human flourishing but the path to it, remain among the most compelling pieces of Christian writing produced in any century.

This is a book for the skeptic in your life. It is a book for the new believer trying to find their footing. And it is a book for the mature Christian who wants to be reminded, in the clearest possible prose, why this whole thing is true.

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Book Details: Publisher: HarperOne | 1952 | 227 pages | ISBN-13: 978-0060652920