Tag Archives: Rob Bell

Brenton Dickieson’s Great Divergence within the Great Divorce: Podcast Interview on In the Corner Back by the Woodpile

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

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 →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged American evangelicalism, American history, C.S. Lewis, Christianity Today, Fundamentalism, hell, Mere Christianity, Narnia, Rob Bell, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Great Divorce | 13 Comments

Bellwethers of a New American Christianity? Sallie McFague, Rob Bell, and Evangelical (Re)Vision

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Following news of Sallie McFague’s death last week, I gave a little tribute to how she had stimulated my thinking. I decided to release this paper I wrote in conversation with her work. Some of the bibliography is five years out … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Alister E. McGrath, Bebbington’s Quadrilateral, Billy Graham, Christianity Today, egalitarianism, environmentalism, feminism, George Marsden, John G. Stackhouse, Love Wins, Metaphorical Theology, Miroslav Volf, R. Albert Mohler, Rob Bell, Sallie McFague, Stanley J. Grenz, theology, Wayne Grudem | 9 Comments

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

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 | 49 Comments

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Feature Friday)

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

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 →

Posted in Feature Friday, Original Research | 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 | 39 Comments

The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce”

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

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 →

6 Surprising Celebrity Audiobook Narrators

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I first discovered audiobooks while taking graduate courses by distance in Japan. I received these world-class lecture packages in the mail, pulled the cassette out of its cellophane wrapper (yes, a tape!), and then popped it into my car’s tape … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged audiobooks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cornelia Funke, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, Madeleine L'Engle, Nicole Kidman, On Writing, Rob Bell, Stephen King, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf | 29 Comments

The Marriage of Now and Then: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Brenton Dickieson

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 →