Mere Christianity Format:Paperback Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his

Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language

The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era

when we are at war

Yet when the English Jesuit priest died of typhoid fever at age forty-four

what hope does he have

Mere Christianity Format:Paperback Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves hisIn 1941 England, when all hope was threatened by the inhumanity of war, C. S. Lewis was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. More than half a century later, these talks continue to retain their poignancy. First heard as informal radio broadcasts on the BBC, the lectures were published as three books and subsequently combined as Mere Christianity. C. S. Lewis proves that "at the center of each there