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Mere christianity book 35/12/2023 ![]() ![]() We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. ![]() … That is why Christians are told not to judge. I did appreciate this warning: “Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Then again, perhaps psychology has become so ingrained in our culture and our minds that terms like that one have almost lost their meaning. We have left behind morals and have turned instead to values we have left what is absolute and unchanging and turned instead to what is personal and temporary.Ī couple of the chapters seemed a little bit odd or unexpected to me and perhaps none more so than “Morality and Psychoanalysis.” I suppose this reflects the time in which the book was written since psychoanalysis isn’t a term we encounter so often today. ![]() These words are near-prophetic: “It is dangerous to describe a man who tries very hard to keep the moral law as a ‘man of high ideals,’ because this might lead you to think that moral perfection was a private taste of his own and that the rest of us were not called on to share it.” And this, of course, is exactly what society declares today. He immediately distinguishes moral ideals from moral rules and shows that he has foreseen society’s slide into postmodernism. In Book 3, Lewis turns to his discussion of “Christian Behavior.” Here he shows how Christians are to live. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron Discussion ![]()
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