Get On with It! vs Mere Christianity: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Get On with It! Get On with It! Sue Ostler · 2003 252 pages · ≈ 4 h 40 m · Moderate

Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls! sets out to offer the soundest, sanest, wittiest information you'll ever get about life as a single guy whilst giving you the scoop on what the other sex is thinking. Author,…

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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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How to choose

Scores by source

Get On with It!Mere Christianity
Goodreads — 4.4 (472094)
Hardcover — 5.0 (1)
Apple Books — 4.5 (374)

Reception

Get On with It!Mere Christianity
Ratings — 472094
Editions 2 109
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 366174
Reading it now — 36239
Written reviews — 16870
Wikipedia attention — 9857
Pages 252 141

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