C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity

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MERE CHRISTIANITY by C.S. LEWIS

INTRODUCTION
Mere Christianity is a book written by C. S. Lewis. It was originally written and published between 1942 and 1944 in three separate parts as a series of wartime broadcasts on Christian faith. This series was to be aired for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Later, these speeches were gathered into a book that is known today as Mere Christianity and was published in 1952 by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 10007.
Dr. C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. He graduated from Oxford University and became a renowned Christian apologist writer, using logic and philosophy to support the tenets of his Christian faith. Although he had been raised as a Christian,

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