Mere Christianity: Book I

When did CS Lewis first share his thoughts from Mere Christianity?

• As a student at Oxford

• Over the radio during WWII

• With his comrades in the trenches of WWI

• As a series of newspaper articles after WWII

• At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

What are other names for what Lewis calls the Law of Human Nature? (select all that apply)

• Tao

• Conscience

• Moral Law

• Materialism

• Creative Evolution

What view of the universe does Lewis consider the most convenient?

• Materialistic

• Religious

• Emergent Evolution

• He considers them equally convenient

• He considers them equally inconvenient

What analogy does Lewis use to explain the difference between human instincts and the moral law?

• Piano keys v. sheet music

• Black keys v. white keyes

• Music v. Talking

• Poetry v. Prose

• Materialism v. Religion

What argument(s) does Lewis give against the idea that morality is only a social convention? (select all that apply)

• Social conventions are like keys on a piano

• Facts are true even if we still have to teach them to one another

• We compare and judge different moralities as though there is an objective standard

• We quarrel with each other about how we ought to behave

• Most cultures have similar baseline moralities

Which of the following are associated with the materialist view of the universe?

• The universe was designed to produce living creatures with minds and morals

• The universe development of life was extremely improbable

• The universe has always existed

• There is nothing beyond matter and space

• A willful life force helped guide the development of living creatures

What questions can science not answer? (select all that apply)

• HOW the natural world works

• WHY the natural world exists

• WHO or WHAT produced the natural world

• Questions about space and matter

• Questions about meaning and purpose

What is the one thing that allows us to peek behind the natural world and catch a reasoned sense of its purpose and meaning?

• science

• the moral nature of mankind

• prayer

• mathematics

What is the difference between Laws of Nature and Laws of Human Nature?

• Laws of Nature can be broken

• Laws of Human Nature can be broken

• They actually are the same thing

• The Laws of Nature apply only to physical objects and animals, not man

Why does Lewis call a moral God our greatest hope and our greatest terror? (select all that apply)

• An immoral or amoral God could not have made such a beautiful universe

• A moral God would have to force us to obey

• An immoral or amoral God would violate our own sense of and desire for justice

• A moral God would have to be our enemy as law breakers

• He actually thinks we have nothing to be uneasy about, only hopeful