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Page 1 of 12 Lewis, mere christianity Selected Cultural notes and references (Page numbers refer to the Collins Fontana Books paperback edition of 1955, fifteenth impression, February 1968) Preface Page 6 Baxter The words mere christianity weren t original to Lewis. In the seventeenth century Richard Baxter, an Anglican divine with Puritan predilections, used the words mere christianity in his book The Saints Everlasting Rest. The work was something like the sixteenth-century Spaniard Ignatius Loyola s Spiritual Exercises in that it prepared the soul, through a series of measured steps, for its heavenly home. The first ten chapters described Heaven, who ll be there and who won t, and why one must pursue Heaven strenuously while on earth. The last six chapters prescribed the Anglican method, with Puritan overlay, of pursuing the heavenly, and indeed heavily contemplative, life.

The words “Mere Christianity” weren’t original to L ewis. In the seventeenth century Richard Baxter, an Anglican divine with Puritan predilections, used the words “Mere Christianity” in his book The Saints’ Everlasting Rest . The work was something like the ... General notes and references ...

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