Saturday, June 21, 2014

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

To get things started, I've posted links to two study guides in the right sidebar. I'll be using those to develop questions for our discussions that will start on July 15.

I might suggest a reading schedule that begins July 1, at a pace of one chapter a day. Some of you have already started and finished, so feel free to look through the study guides. 

To whet your appetite, here's part of the introduction from the CS Lewis Institute:


The Great Divorce arose out of Lewis’ interest in the nature of spiritual choices. . . . The title of the book was a play on William Blake’s’ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – Lewis implying that no such marriage is possible. On the title page there is a telling quote from George MacDonald:

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it – no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather. 

More later . . . .

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