Faith vs Mere Christianity: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Faith Faith Lori Copeland · 1998 ★★★★☆ 3.8 291 pages · ≈ 5 h 23 m · Moderate

Prolific author Copeland kicks off another historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that…

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Cover of Mere Christianity Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis · 1943 ★★★★☆ 4.4 141 pages · ≈ 2 h 37 m · Challenging
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says”

First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity. In his…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

FaithMere Christianity
Goodreads — 4.4 (472094)
Hardcover 3.3 (3) 5.0 (1)
Google Books 2.0 (1) —
Apple Books 4.0 (23) 4.5 (374)

Reception

FaithMere Christianity
Ratings 23 472094
Editions 5 109
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 366174
Reading it now — 36239
Written reviews — 16870
Wikipedia attention 6291 9857
Pages 291 141

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