George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican--famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night with his friends J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugh Dyson, and how Lewis delivered his wartime talks to a traumatized British nation in the midst of an all-out war for survival.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 War Service
• CHAPTER 2 Broadcast Talks
• CHAPTER 3 Loved or Hated
• CHAPTER 4 A Classic as Afterthought
• CHAPTER 5 Into the Evangelical Orbit
• CHAPTER 6 Many-Sided Mere Christianity
• CHAPTER 7 Critiques
• CHAPTER 8 The Lasting Vitality of Mere Christianity
• APPENDIX Changes in Mere Christianity Compared to the Original Three Books
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES FOR NOTES
• NOTES