Christian Marriage by C.S. Lewis Doodle (BBC Talk 14a, Mere Christianity, Bk 3, Chapter 6)

This is a fresh section on sexual morality that Lewis added to a reprint of his famous BBC addresses to bring in points which he had not time to deal with in the actual talks. Notes below. This became Chapter 5 of Book 3, in the book called ‘Mere Christianity’. You can find the book here: (0:32) Lewis would later marry in 1957 – incidentally he married a divorcee, who had legitimate reasons for a righteous divorce. He wrote ’The Four Loves’ after his marriage, which is highly recommended reading also. (8:10) Patriotism. Lewis: “Ordinary morality tells us, ceteris paribus [all other things being equal], to love our kindred and fellow citizens more than strangers.“ A racialist ethic is achieved by isolating one part of this maxim to the exclusion of the other, so that no claims except those of blood are acknowledged (i.e. blood ties or loyalty to family are everything, and the rights of