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According to Kathleen Norris’s foreword, the historical context of World War II happening during that time and England’s self-identification of being a part of a “post-Christian” world affects Lewis’s approach in this novel. Due to the negative effects of the war on the world, Lewis approaches this novel with a positive, fresh outlook on Christianity in order to unite Christians and non-Christians in a world that has been torn apart. Norris explains that the author of Mere Christianity approaches the novel by seeking, “to help us see the religion with fresh eyes, as a radical faith whose adherents might be likened to an underground group gathering in a war zone, a place where evil seems to have the upper hand, to hear messages of hope from
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