Chapter 5: “The Obstinate Toy Soldiers”.Book Four – “Beyond Personality: or First Steps In The Doctrine of the Trinity”.Chapter 4: “Morality and Psychoanalysis”.Chapter 1: “The Three Parts of Morality”.Book One – “ Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe” (all 5 chapters) Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe” (all 5 chapters).Leaders may also find it useful to print out copies of these notes to use as handouts.īuy a copy of Mere Christianity (C.S. You can tell from the length of the summary approximately how much time most groups will spend in discussion in most chapters. We hope that the chapter summaries are helpful for those who choose to lead groups through this book. Most groups will choose to cover the entire book in an eight or twelve week session, but there is enough content to spend a year in this book. The notes have been summarized so that a group or discussion leader can lead one chapter per meeting, or the chapters can be grouped together to cover multiple chapters per meeting.
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