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... full on enjoyment of the situation. As you probably remember, we can find C.S. Lewis expressing this attitude in his The Great Divorce.
Whether or not such sentiments translate into hard-heartedness in the face of worldly suffering is an interesting question. But I would tend to ... ... arguments didn't do it for me, he lost me logically about 20 pages in.
(I have since read The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce and was similarily unmoved, though I delight in his writing style.)
As Tim said in post 13 "Personally, I find the morality argument persuasive to a ... ... Blake
4) Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
5) Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
6) Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
7) Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
8) Artist's way by Julia Cameron
9) A Monastic Breviary by Order of the Holy Cross
10) Omnium Gatherum a play by Theresa Rebeck
11) C ... ... Blake
4) Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
5) Fictiones by Jorge Luis Borges
6) Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
7) Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
8) Artist's way by Julia Cameron
9) A Monastic Breviary by Order of the Holy Cross
10) Omnium Gatherum a play by ???
11) City of Nigh ... ... Psychology, and Religion (7/15)
BF - Essentials of Psychology: Exploration and Application by Dennis Coon
BJ - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
BL - Science and Christianity: Four Views
BP - The Crisis of Islam : Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
BR - The Confession ... ... order, I'm reading front to back and back to front to keep from getting too bored.
Re-reading my 1979 copy of
17) The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis which contributed to my REAL divorce in 1981-- he was a 'there's always a last chance for salvation' guy who was convinced that my joy ... Mitchell also did a good job with Rilke's poetry.
As to books on the after life, C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce is interesting. Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are certainly worth reading. Religion:
1. Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver (completed 05/05/2008)
2. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
3. The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
4. The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman(completed 2/17/2008)
5. ... ... Prestige
Stardust
Twilight
Close Kin
Schooled
Ella Enchanted
Mere Christianity
The Wealthy Barber
The Great Divorce
Luminous Cities
The Myth of Ability
Fiction: 22
Non-Fiction: 7
Total: 29 ... Christian theology: Mere Christianity
231 God: Miracles or God: a Biography
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
239 Apologetics & polemics: Orthodoxy
242 Devotional literature: A Grief Observed
248 Christian experience, practice, life: The Screwtape ... I've completed The Great Divorce for BJ Ethics. Well, I just finished The Great Divorce for 236 Eschatology (touchstones irritatingly won't reload right now, so I can't add it to my list). I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Mere Christianity: it was less accessible and less accepting of different viewpoints. I felt like rather than trying ... There is a certain amount of disagreement about The Great Divorce, which I'd expect in a religious book: it has 196 fiction tags and 30 non-fiction. But Lewis himself says in the preface, "I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy.... the transmortal conditions are solely an imaginative ... The Great Divorce is fiction? Hmm, I didn't know that.
From mine I found just one:
917 Geography and Travel; North America - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
... fiction in unexpected places, and I was wondering whether there's more. The ones I've seen so far are:
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
248 Christian experience, practice, life: The Screwtape Letters
513 Arithmetic: Flatland
530 Physics: Flatland/Sphereland
793 Indoor games & ... ... Mental processes & intelligence: Blink or The Mismeasure of Man
200 Religion: The Battle for God
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
273 Heresies in church history: Out of the Flames
277 Christian church in North America: Blue Like Jazz
302 Social interaction: The Tipping Point
... ... Financial Economics: The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton. It was an easy read, and probably useful.
I picked up The Great Divorce and The Abolition of Man at a used bookstore a couple of days ago. I haven't gotten around to reading them yet, but I have to say that using them for ... ... books, I've decided I should read:
248 Christian experience, practice, life: The Screwtape Letters
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
231 God: The Problem of Pain
242 Devotional literature: A Grief Observed
370 Education: The Abolition of Man
809 Literary history & criticism: T ... BJ Ethics: The Great Divorce
BS The Bible: Ancient Near East Vol. 1
BT Doctrinal Theology: Mere Christianity
CB History of Civilization: Dark Age Ahead
D History General: Night
DA History of Great Britain - History of Ireland - History of the British Isles: How the Irish Saved Ci ... ... Near East Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
230 Christian theology: Mere Christianity
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
299 Other Religions: The Tao of Pooh
303 Social Processes: Fire and Ice by Michael Adams
305 Social Groups: Nickel and Dimed
321 Systems of G ... 33. The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis A rather interesting Christian fantasy that I keep thinking about and somewhat reminiscent of C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce and the Narnia Chronicles is
Harry Blamires' Christian fantasy trilogy written in the mid-1950's:
The devil's hunting grounds 8 copies in LT
Cold war in hell ... The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Waiting for the Galactic Bus & The Snake Oil Wars by Parke Godwin
The Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant
Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle
Ben-hur by Lew Wallace I noticed few people mentioned a book (save the Bible) but The Great Divorce is an excellent read. I'd throw in Manalive by Chesterton, The Book of Hours by Rilke, any of George McDonald's Fairy Tales, Madeline L'engle's works especially The Time Quartet, and good ol' St. Au ... ... for how an inhabited Hell could be compatible with God's benevolence, see the writings of C. S. Lewis, especially The Great Divorce. ... winter, midway between Christmas & New Year, we saw a fellow (in Philadelphia) recite or dramatically recite/enact Lewis's The Great Divorce. It was quite a performance, a great evening.
#12 - dchaikin, your last 2 sentences sya it very well, and I think JRR would be pleased to hear that.
The Great Divorce / C. S. Lewis
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth / Gordon D. Fee
27>That's a terrific read! ... books: Tale of Despereaux
1 of my favorite classics: Brothers Karamazov
1 of my favorite Christian books: The Great Divorce
I'm currently reading The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Great Divorce ... for his descriptions of the English skies, if for no other reason. I like C.S. Lewis's nonfiction and quasi-fiction (Great Divorce, Screwtape Letters, Pilgrim's Regress) more than his fiction, but That Hideous Strength is quite good. I'd had people share with me many beautiful Chris ... ... reading C. S. Lewis and Catholic Church, but left it off in annoyance. After an interesting, highly-perceptive chapter on The Great Divorce, Pearce's take on Mere Christianity turned me off—stepping away from analysis, to wah-wah-wah about the exclusion of Mary.
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