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Tag Archives: hell
Brenton Dickieson’s Great Divergence within the Great Divorce: Podcast Interview on In the Corner Back by the Woodpile
A couple of years ago I blogged about the podcast, In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, this one about Phil Keaggy and C.S. Lewis’ influence. It took this long, but I was finally able to sit down with the … Continue reading
The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Throwback Thursday)
Last year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged C.S. Lewis, controversy, Dante, Galatians 2:20, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, Love Wins, Narnia, Rob Bell, self-death, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, The Problem of Pain, theology
43 Comments
Wormwood Reborn? A Screwtapian Look at The Gates by John Connolly (A Little Hallowe’en Demonic Lit)
One of the great perks as a university teacher is that I am constantly in conversation with students about good books. While this occasionally gets me into conversations about Twilight (which I did read, but only with great commitment to my … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, Reviews
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Dante, demons, Douglas Adams, fantasy, hell, John Connolly, Lemony Snicket, literature, Philip Pullman, Screwtape, Teaching, Terry Pratchett, The Gates, The Screwtape Letters, Twilight
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Reading the Great Divorce: Friday Feature Podcast
Today’s Friday Feature is another podcast by William O’Flaherty, and fits in well with my mission to get people to read and reread The Great Divorce. Here William allows four people to share what they found meaningful about Lewis’ dream novella … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Friday
Tagged C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, podcast, The Great Divorce, theology
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The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Feature Friday)
It’s difficult to know why, but this post has remained among the most popular for the last few months. For the past few years I have been trying to encourage a recovery of The Great Divorce. It is a great work, … Continue reading
Interview with William O’Flaherty, “C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell”
Readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia will know of my abiding interest in The Screwtape Letters. As the 75th anniversary of the first printing of the Letters is next Monday, we are taking a couple of weeks to celebrate this “positively diabolical” … Continue reading
The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce”
This is dangerous territory–partly because some have trumbled into the “real” meaning of this or that book and caused an awful mess. When read this way the Bible most especially becomes secret code for everything from American foreign policy to the … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged C.S. Lewis, controversy, Dante, Galatians 2:20, George MacDonald, heaven, hell, Love Wins, Narnia, Rob Bell, self-death, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, The Problem of Pain, theology
32 Comments
Guest Blog: C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: William O’Flaherty’s Interview with David Clark
William O’Flaherty is the intrepid host of the “All About Jack” podcast and the Essential C.S. Lewis website. He interviewed Dr. David Clark, and includes that transcript here as part of our ongoing series on The Great Divorce. Dr. Clark … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged C.S. Lewis, fantasy, heaven, hell, That Hideous Strength, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, theology, Till We Have Faces
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A Level of Hell that Dante Forgot: A Note from Discworld
Terry Pratchett is about as weird and wonderful an author as I could ever want. A master world-builder, he trades in irony, parody, and satire the way the TV show Glee trades in stereotypes. And yet, despite the constant self-degradation … Continue reading
