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Looking for a Lewis quote on sexuality

PostPosted: October 23rd, 2007, 4:30 am
by Jon Himes
I have been trying to locate a quote by Lewis in which he talks about human sexuality as something that may extend into the afterlife. He states that even though it may not be used there at all (for procreation or otherwise), it may be like a holstered sword that a soldier bears with him as a sign of good service. I.e., sexual identity, if properly used in this life, may be retained in the next as a reflection of good stewardship in reflecting the divine glory in that aspect of life.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I have looked in many Lewis texts and have asked a couple of friends also to look, but we've turned up nothing. Here's what I've consulted already: The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, Letters of CSL (ed. by WHL), Letters to Arthur Greeves, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength.

PostPosted: October 23rd, 2007, 4:31 pm
by repectabiggle
This doesn't sound familiar to me, but you might look for it in the chapter titled "Heaven" in The Problem of Pain.

PostPosted: October 23rd, 2007, 8:13 pm
by Sven

PostPosted: October 23rd, 2007, 8:25 pm
by loeee

PostPosted: October 23rd, 2007, 8:40 pm
by Leslie

PostPosted: October 24th, 2007, 7:11 am
by carol
"trans" is one of those words/prefixes that had two different meanings in its original language (in this case, it was a Latin preposition).

My dictionary says it means "across, through, on the other side of".

Does that make sense? It's a place of being beyond the sexuality we have here. - presumably into something else.

Miracles!

PostPosted: October 24th, 2007, 2:35 pm
by Jon Himes