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CS Lewis 10 episodes Latest Sep 18, 2024

This podcast features C.S. Lewis's classic work 'Mere Christianity', adapted from a series of BBC radio talks delivered between 1941 and 1944. Originally published as three separate volumes, the series explores core Christian beliefs and moral arguments. The podcast presents Lewis's thoughtful and accessible explanations of Christian theology.

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Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 10 Sep 18, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 10Episode 10: Book 3, Christian Marriage (Ch. 6)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 6. Christian MarriageThe last chapter was mainly negative. I discussed what was wrong with the sexual impulse in man, but said very little about its right working-in other words, about Christian marriage. There are two reasons
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 9 Episode 8 Sep 17, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 9Episode 9: Book 3, Sexual Morality (Ch. 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 5. Sexual MoralityWe must now consider Christian morality as regards sex, what Christians call the virtue of chastity. The Christian rule of chastity must not be confused with the social rule of “modesty” (in one sense
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 9 Episode 8 Sep 16, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 8Episode 8: Book 3, Social Morality, Morality & PsychoAnalysis (Ch. 3 & 4)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 3. Social MoralityThe first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 7 Sep 15, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 7Episode 7: Book 3: Christian Behaviour; The 3 Parts of Morality, The Cardinal Virtues (ch. 1 & 2)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 3: Christian BehaviourChapter 1. The Three Parts Of MoralityThere is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was “Th
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 6 Sep 14, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 6Episode 6: Book 2: The Practical Conclusion(ch. 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s Believe.Chapter 5. The Practical ConclusionThe perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. Now the Christian belief is that if we someho
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 5 Sep 13, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 5Episode 5: Book 2: The Shocking Alternative & The Perfect Penitant (Chapters 3 & 4)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s Believe.Chapter 3. The Shocking AlternativeChristians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. I
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 4 Sep 12, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 4Episode 4: Book 2: The Rival Conceptions of God, The Invasion(ch. 1 & 2)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 2: What Christian’s BelieveChapter 1. The Rival Conceptions Of GodI have been asked to tell you what Christians believe, and I am going to begin by telling you one thing that Christians do not need to believe. If you are
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 3 Sep 11, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 3Episode 3: Book 1: What Lies Behind the Law, We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (ch. 4 & 5)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 1 – The Law of Human Nature;Chapter 4. What Lies Behind the LawLet us sum up what we have reached so far. In the case of stones and trees and things of that sort, what we call the Laws of Nature may not be anything e
Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 2 Sep 10, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Episode 2Episode 2: Book 1: Some Objections, The Reality of the Law(ch. 2 & 3)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityBook 1 – The Law of Human Nature;Chapter 2. Some ObjectionsIf they are the foundation, I had better stop to make that foundation firm before I go on. Some of the letters I have had show, that a good many people find it difficult to und
Mere Christianity Podcast: Part 1 Sep 9, 2024 Mere Christianity Podcast: Part 1Episode 1: Preface & Book 1, The Law of Human Nature (chapter 1)Posted by C.S. Lewis; Narrated by Liam;Mere ChristianityA Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), an

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