{"id":51,"date":"2021-03-05T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-03-08T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:14:35","slug":"mere-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/2021\/03\/05\/mere-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mere Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Mere Christianity<br \/>\n<\/em>by C.S. Lewis<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Book description from Goodreads:<\/strong><br \/>\nMere Christianity is C.S. Lewis&#8217;s forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books &#8211; The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality &#8211; Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity&#8217;s many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the nominator think this would be a good book for the Campus Read?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I think this books encourages discussion of theology and makes people think through what they believe and why. I think this book is a good read for Christians and Non-Christians alike. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Book description from Goodreads: Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis&#8217;s forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books &#8211; The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality &#8211; Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-shouldice-matchup-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/03\/MereChristianity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}