Which C.S. Lewis book collects his 1940s BBC broadcasts about Christian belief?

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Mere Christianity collects C.S. Lewis’s 1940s BBC broadcasts about Christian belief. The book presents arguments and explanations intended for a broad audience rather than a specialist theological readership.

Lewis originally delivered broadcast talks during the Second World War. He later revised and expanded them into the published work, which is arranged in four sections: “Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe,” “What Christians Believe,” “Christian Behaviour,” and “Beyond Personality.”

The title refers to the shared core of traditional Christian belief, not to a separate denomination. Lewis did not write the broadcasts as a complete treatment of every Christian doctrine. Readers also sometimes confuse Mere Christianity with The Problem of Pain, another apologetic work, but the two books had different origins and emphases.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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