Into the Wardrobe

Upon reflection I see your point about Niggle already being saved. This does make sense.

"the Church does not believe that Purgatory is a second chance, but a final cleaning off for the saved before they enter Heaven. This was also C. S. Lewis's view of Purgatory."

Please post some information on Lewis' view of purgatory. This is dissapointing to hear. I do not believe this concept is very scriptural.

Thank you,

c

Hello C,

I, on the other hand, believe that a believe in Purgatory is well rooted in Scripture, but that is another matter! To return to the matter at hand: C. S. Lewis wrote about purgatory in various places. For example:

Letter twenty of Letters To Malcolm - purgatory is called a process of purification
The Problem of Pain - "[Purgatory is] for souls already saved"
A Grief Observed - I can't help suspecting that the dead also feel the pains of separation from their loved ones (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings)
Letters to an American Lady "I hope that when the tooth of life is drawn and I am 'coming round', a voice will say. 'Rinse our mouth out with this.'"
Letters- "[Purgatory is] a process by which the work of redemption continues..." vs "a second chance in the strict sense"
Reflection on the Psalms: "Shall we, perhaps, in Purgatory, see our own faces and hear our own voices as they really were?"

(Examples taken from Janine Goffar's C. S. Lewis Index)

If you would like to know more about Lewis and Purgatory (eg: other points of view) you could do worse than use the search function on the forum; this issue has come up before.

Malcolm

I've moved this thread to the Tolkien forum. There will not be a general move of all the old Tolkien threads, but it has been requested to move this one as it is quite active.

*NM*

c, Malcolm, rather than continue to hijack this thread, why not start a new thread on Purgatory over in the Christianity forum?

sorry