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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look in an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. On this day, April

4th in 1945, the last in a famous series of talks by C.S. Lewis was broadcast

across the BBC. These talks would become the substance of mere Christianity, a book that's

often listed as the most influential Christian book of the 20th century. Lewis was a layman,

who was trained in philosophy, logic, and literature, not in theology.

So how did he manage to produce such a profound and important work on the Christian faith?

While many are familiar with the story of Lewis's conversion, from atheism to Christianity,

fewer know anything about his spiritual growth after conversion.

An early critical element of this formation came in 1935, just four years after his conversion

when Lewis was assigned to write the volume on 16th century literature for the Oxford

history of English literature.

So Lewis read everything published in English in the 16th century.

That included every work of Thomas Moore and all the

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