Book Arrangement: When Britain was in danger and distress during World War II, the country’s radio stations called upon Clive Staples Lewis to deliver a simple, earnest message concerning the Christian faith to the despairing population. The broadcasts were well received, and Lewis later published these talks as three separate works: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behavior (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). Eventually, Lewis merged the trio into a single body: Mere Christianity. This piece housed a preface, a foreword, and four distinct “books” that each targeted a separate portion of Christian theology. Prior to the primary reading, the Preface described Lewis’s process of transposing his spoken words into written text, and the Foreword provided Kathleen Norris’s favorable view of both the book and author. The “books” followed, with the chapters’ numbering restarting as each additional section commenced.
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All three of these components possess deeper meaning as the orange color could reflect the joy associated with Christianity, the cream could reflect Christianity’s pureness, while the illustration could be symbolic of the Garden of Eden. Altogether, the colors and the image maintain a sense of what Christianity could be capable of providing: peace.
Use of Outside Sources: Unlike the majority of other nonfiction works, Mere Christianity contained nearly (if not none at all) no references to any outside sources and it appeared that Lewis wrote this piece entirely from his own knowledge. It appears that he relied solely on his own understanding of Christianity and did not necessitate any additional research. Lewis did, however, have four clergymen pour over the book and submit suggestions, but it appears that those four men were the extent of any outside
Book Content: While …show more content…
All three of these components possess deeper meaning as the orange color could reflect the joy associated with Christianity, the cream could reflect Christianity’s pureness, while the illustration could be symbolic of the Garden of Eden. Altogether, the colors and the image maintain a sense of what Christianity could be capable of providing: peace.
Use of Outside Sources: Unlike the majority of other nonfiction works, Mere Christianity contained nearly (if not none at all) no references to any outside sources and it appeared that Lewis wrote this piece entirely from his own knowledge. It appears that he relied solely on his own understanding of Christianity and did not necessitate any additional research. Lewis did, however, have four clergymen pour over the book and submit suggestions, but it appears that those four men were the extent of any outside