John Mury: August 2008 Archives

Questions and resources for Mere Christianity, chapters 15 & 16.

Back to Basics - Week 08 Handout

Continuing with week 8 of our Back to Basics series, here are chapters 15 and 16 of Mere Christianity, on sexual morality and Christian marriage.

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Here are the questions for chapters 13-14 of Mere Christianity, the chapters on social morality and psychoanalysis.

Back to Basics - Week 07 Handout

You might hear my kids talking or stomping in the background; I think it just adds to the “authenticity.” Just as a heads-up, Lewis will express several ideas in these chapters that might make a (post)modern audience pause. First, he addresses homosexuality in a way that was considered quite progressive in his day (especially when taken in context of his other writings) but would not be considered progressive by many today. Second, the notion of wanting a “Christian society” might seem quite the opposite of what many talk of today. In both cases, those are just the raw materials Lewis is working with back in his day with his particular BBC radio audience. His underlying points still stand even if you disagree with his assumptions.

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