Mere Christianity vs Summa Theologica: Which Should You Read?

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…

Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas · 1467 ★★★★☆ 4.1 212 pages · ≈ 3 h 56 m · Demanding

Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the relationship of God,…