Mere Christianity vs The pilgrim's regress: Which Should You Read?

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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Cover of The pilgrim's regress The pilgrim's regress C. S. Lewis · 1933 ★★★★☆ 3.9 205 pages · ≈ 3 h 48 m · Challenging

One of Lewis's earlier works, this book is a similar parable to Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress"; while "Pilgrim's Progress" describes the journey of a non-Christian coming into Christianity, "The Pilgrim's Regress"…

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Mere ChristianityThe pilgrim's regress
Goodreads 4.4 (472094) 3.9 (11063)
Hardcover 5.0 (1) 3.6 (24)
Apple Books 4.5 (374) 4.5 (33)

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Mere ChristianityThe pilgrim's regress
Ratings 472094 11063
Editions 109 32
Citations — 18
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 366174 14759
Reading it now 36239 905
Written reviews 16870 928
Wikipedia attention 9857 1324
Pages 141 205

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