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Peter Kreeft on Hell (Hell Series Part 2)
Peter Kreeft is a Catholic philosopher, C.S. Lewis scholar, and a contributor to the genre of Screwtape-style letters. This piece is an excerpt from his Fundamentals of Faith, and is available here. The hell with hell! says the modern mind. … Continue reading
Posted in Memorable Quotes
Tagged C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, hell fire and damnation, Peter Kreeft, religion, The Great Divorce, theology
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The Marriage of Now and Then: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce
Last spring, after I read Rob Bell’s bestseller Love Wins, I knew I had to go back to C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. Though often missed by reviewers, Bell’s work is shot through with Lewis’ influence. My first encounter with … Continue reading
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Tagged “The High Countries” C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, choice, Death, Galatians 2:20, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, imagination, Love Wins, myth, Rob Bell, self-death, sin, The Great Divorce, theology
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Caedmon’s Call, “The High Countries”
A bus station, in the steam from the rain In this line of pale strangers, should I go or stay? The whole field of vision, fades beneath me now And the houses spread for a million miles, in this gray … Continue reading
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Tagged “The High Countries” C.S. Lewis, Caedmon’s Call, heaven, hell, The Great Divorce
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The Pilgrim’s Regress and the Reader’s Progress
As much as I always love it, reading Lewis occasionally reminds me of how I’m so deficient in “the literary canon”—the great pieces of literature that everyone has read; a.k.a., the books I should have read already. All too often … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, C.S. Lewis, Chaim Potok, E.B. White, Flaubert, George MacDonald, Giller Award, heaven, hell, Jane Austin, Kafka, Lemony Snicket, Newberry, Paulo Coehlo, Pilgrim's Progress, Pilgrim's Regress, pretentious, Shel Silverstein, Steinbeck, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Tolkien
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