In Secret vs Mere Christianity: Which Should You Read?

Cover of In Secret In Secret Robert W. Chambers · 1919 ★★★★☆ 3.9 246 pages · ≈ 4 h 33 m · Challenging

The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands…

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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

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In SecretMere Christianity
Goodreads 4.2 (11) 4.4 (472094)
Hardcover — 5.0 (1)
Apple Books — 4.5 (374)

Reception

In SecretMere Christianity
Ratings 11 472094
Editions 142 109
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 48 366174
Reading it now — 36239
Written reviews 11 16870
Wikipedia attention 95 9857
Pages 246 141

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