Arnold Lunn Joad (2 results)

Condition: Good. 1943. 4th Impression. 319 pages. Beige jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Prominent forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lunn, Arnold and C. E. M. Joad. Is Christianity true? A correspondence between Arnold Lunn and C. E. M. Joad. First edition. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Orange cloth, bumped to corners and sunned to spine with a few small blemishes. Black lettering to spine. Binding strong with a forward lean. Light tanning to endpapers. Small ownership name to ffep. 386pp., contents clean and bright. Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952. His father was a lay Methodist minister, but Lunn was an agnostic and wrote critically about Catholicism before he converted to that religion at the age of 45 and became an apologist. In 1932 Lunn accepted a challenge from the noted philosopher C. E. M. Joad to discuss Christianity in a series of letters; they were published the following year as Is Christianity True? Joad, an agnostic, attacked Christianity on a wide variety of fronts, and Lunn, by now a believing Christian, if uncommitted to any particular denomination, responded. Lunn later wrote: "I can imagine no better training for the Church than to spend, as I did, a year arguing the case against Catholicism with a Catholic, and a second year in defending the Catholic position against an agnostic." RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.