The Great Divorce
What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone...
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What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis's own words, "If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061774195 (0061774197)
Publish date: March 3rd 2009
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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...
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis (?)
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 ...
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