The allegory in it went over my head more often than in some of his other works, but it was interesting. Another one I'll have to try again with some kind of companion. *Review written on February 18, 2016.*
This book is a journey in which the main character is led by a Scottish minister through a dreamt-up purgatory full of metaphors, which C.S. Lewis uses to explore his concepts of Heaven and Hell and contrast them to other views held by much of Christianity. Although I do not necessarily agree with m...
I'm going to be stoned by my Christian friends, I just know it. I don't know why, but I just didn't like this as well as I liked Lewis' other works, like The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia or even Mere Christianity. The writing or literary device used reminded me of The Shack: Where Tra...
This is a great book about the Christian faith. C.S. Lewis uses the setting of a dream to communicate fundamental truths. Guided by George MacDonald, an earlier author, he embarks on a trip starting in Hell, and ends up in Heaven In the process, he explains Christian views of life, death, heaven ...
This book is short--about 140 pages in my edition--but will, I think, require several readings for me to understand all the finer details about the various characters' spiritual problems that lead them to say no to Heaven.
One of Lewis' more complex works, The Great Divorce sometimes gets included with both his fiction and his non-fiction. It is not a novel, but it is more like a long parable or just an extended metaphor. Hell has an open door and everyone is free to leave whenever they want, but the pride, skeptici...
If I could give this book 100 stars, I would do so. I read "The Great Divorce" about every 4 to 5 years. It helps clean out my thinking about the here and now, and pulls me into thinking about heaven and what it will really be like. Lewis has such a delightful imagination, and it is humbling to m...
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