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Matt Bates. are invited to enter into the best conversations about scripture and theology happening in the world today.

I'm your host, Matt Bates. I'm continuing a mini-series where I engage systematic theology more directly.

Toward that end, joining me today will be Professor Kevin J. Van Hooser.

In the preface to C.S. Lewis's justly famous, mere Christianity, Lewis

explains what you won't find in his book. The reader should be warned that I offer no help

to anyone who is hesitating between two Christian denominations. You will not learn from me whether

you ought to become an Anglican, a Methodist,

a Presbyterian, or a Roman Catholic. This omission is intentional. Then Lewis continues,

ever since I became a Christian, I have thought that the best, perhaps the only service I could do

for my unbelieving neighbors, was to explain and defend the belief that has become common

to nearly all Christians at all times. Lewis is gesturing toward the need to articulate and

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