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The Matter And (Mostly) Manner Of Mere Christianity, Gary L. Tandy
The Matter And (Mostly) Manner Of Mere Christianity, Gary L. Tandy
Faculty Publications - Department of English
Presented to a meeting of the Inkling Folk Fellowship (IFF), July 23rd, 2021.
Zoom Session Link: https://youtu.be/F2ZKEPD0YFg
Research Question•Why does Lewis’s work of popular apologetics continue to find a wide readership while other excellent books in the same genre—e.g., Sayers’s Creed or Chaos—do not?
Christianity Today Survey (2000): Most influential Christian books
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1942-44; 1952) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (1937) Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (1932-67) J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (1968) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908) Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) Richard Foster, …