Mere Christianity Chapter Summary

Write and Wrong As a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe The book ‘Mere Christianity is broken down into four different books, each containing its own chapters. Book one is named ‘Right and The Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of Life’. This book contains five chapters. It explains what the Law of Nature is, and how it is seen by people. Also explaining the past, present and forever meaning of how we act by the law and how it differs from other “natural laws.” In the first chapter; ‘The Law of Human Nature’ the author tells his reader how the law of nature is seen by today’s thinkers, and of older thinkers. That the law is not merely another natural law as to gravity is, but how it is more of a way of thinking. Showing how all people of a way of knowing how to act, for example when he had said “.. The human idea of decent behavior was obvious to everyone”. In this chapter he also talks about, how the natural law has much criticism and how some say it could not be true, because of different ages and civilizations have had different ideas about how to basically think and act. He disagrees with this claim because; despite where you come from you will always know what is real right and wrong. The second chapter; ‘Some
He then proceeds to talk about how man has always been very curious about how the universe came to be, from this point he describes two ways; the materialistic view and the religious view. According to Lewis that neither of the ways are impossible to be proven by science, because there isn’t really anything to view and have a backup you could say for the view. All we have is ourselves (men), which he says gives us inside knowledge, of moral law, that we must obey since we do not forget, even though we ourselves did not make the