Into the Wardrobe

This is the first Lewis book I ever read (42 years ago, when I was 16) and it remains my favorite. It gave and gives me hope.

I commend it to you.


[signed]
Paul F. Ford
(author of the Companion to Narnia and the Pocket Companion to Narnia )

The Great Divorce is my favourite. Buy it by all means. It's hard to compare it to his apologetics, because it's a story.

The Great Divorce is also one of my favorite, a book which I have reread several times, and I always finds something new and exciting.

I loved The Great Divorce-- the first time I read it was in high school and then again for a college C. S. Lewis course. The idea of the bus trip to heaven for lost souls was fascinating. And with George MacDonald as Lewis' guide (be sure to read many of his books to get a picture of someone who thought so much like Lewis) this really puts the real world in perspective. I think that it compares very well with Mere Christianity and expresses in a story many of the ideas (especially of the Christian life) in that book.

Larry W.

Thanks everyone,

I've started "The Great Divorce" today. Love it already, but there's one line in it that I don't understand so far..on page 36 (I get frustrated when something's not clarified for me)..anyway, the quote is about sins of the intellect: "There is hide-bound prejudice, and intellectual dishonesty, and timidity, and stagnation.." What is meant by timidity and stagnation? How is this related to sins of the intellect? That's what I don't understand.

-Lori

Hey, folks. This discussion has moved beyond the limits of the "Question & Answer" forum, so I'm going to move it to where it belongs and shadow it here.

Sorry, Lori, but that would mean you'll need to register to continue. I hope that's not a problem.

The Great Divorce was a fantastic book that exposed many of the illogical arguments of non-believers. But the Bible states clearly that at least part of Hell is a place of fire and pain and eternal torment. As much as I don't like that idea, (and would have done things differently if it were up to me), we have to accept on Faith that such a place exists and that God is right and just in His judgements (which, of course, He is!). The description of Hell in the Great Divorce is not at all like that.

I admit I'm a little confused? I finished the Great Divorce tonight, and I thought it was great. But I'm confused about the ending!
Was the guy sick? Dead? Dying? Suicided? Or what? It happened so quickly in the book, that I caught my breath, reread the passage, and STILL couldn't figure it out!

Thanks!
:)