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Mere Christianity is a 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), and Beyond Personality (1944).
In one instance, Collins was asked by a Christian patient about his spiritual beliefs. He did not really have an answer; Collins then decided that he should confirm his atheism by studying the best arguments for faith. A pastor directed him to Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, which he cites as the main cause of his conversion.
Lewis was an Oxford medieval literature scholar, popular writer, Christian apologist, and former atheist. He used the argument outlined below in a series of BBC radio talks later published as the book Mere Christianity. There, he states:
36. “He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.” —Psalm 147:4 37. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity, and you are the mirror ...
In 30 years, Anthony Hopkins morphed from C.S. Lewis into Sigmund Freud and from a mere Christian into a committed atheist. That’s all just on the screen, of course.
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great was one of the first major figures to believe that Eclogue 4 was a pre-Christian augury concerning Jesus Christ. [9]According to Classicist Domenico Comparetti, in the early Christian era, "A certain theological doctrine, supported by various passages of [Judeo-Christian] scripture, induced men to look for prophets of Christ among the Gentiles". [10]
The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears in the New Testament. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which appear in the Gospel of Luke, take the Biblical poetry of the psalms of the Hebrew Bible as their models. [1] Many Biblical scholars also believe that St Paul of Tarsus quotes bits of early Christian hymns in his epistles.
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