Best of
Christianity

1942

Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters


C.S. Lewis - 1942
    S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide. The book bring's together Lewis's legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to "explain and defend the beliefe that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times." A masterpiece of satire, The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below."

Mere Christianity


C.S. Lewis - 1942
    Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice."

The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"


C.S. Lewis - 1942
    "My symbol for hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or a thoroughly nasty business office." The edition also includes a new Screwtape piece, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," and should find a new generation of readers for the wittiest piece of writing the 20th century has yet produced to stimulate the ordinary man to godliness.

The Screwtape Letters


C.S. Lewis - 1942
    Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.

Hymns to the Church


Gertrud von le Fort - 1942
    Translation of Hymnen an Die Kirche by the Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort (11 October 1876 – 1 November 1971),a noted German writer of novels, poems and essays.This moving collection of poems is addressed to the Catholic Church that Gertrude embraced in 1926 at the age of 50.

The hand that drove the nails


J. Fletcher Ray - 1942
    He broke the seals and discovered several scrolls that were still in good condition. He found a long thick nail. This encouraged him to look further.He was horrified when he found the bones of a man's right hand together with two more nails and a small piece of papyrus...