As we progress through the book, the ghosts and their respective problems should be getting more personal. This week, we’ll meet the ghosts of doubt – the Hard-Bitten Cynical and the Frightened Shame-filled ghost.
The Great Divorce, Ch.7-8, pt.1 Read More »
But He cannot defend this deity of His against the self-righteous people who are unwilling to accept grace and eternal life from Him freely but want to earn it by their own works. They simply want to rob Him of the glory of His deity. – Martin Luther
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Within these chapters, we will meet three of the bus riders who came from Hell. As you read through the chapters, see what part of your life Lewis is speaking to. Also, as with any author we read, don’t be afraid to disagree with Lewis or question his perspective.
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I think that earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
The Great Divorce, Ch. 1-3, pt.2 Read More »
For Lewis, Heaven is a state of being (ontology) whereby we become fully human and are transformed into the full likeness and nature of God. Alternatively, Hell is that state of being whereby we un-become human and gradually decline into that state of non-being and non-existence.
The Great Divorce, Ch. 1-3, pt.1 Read More »
The Great Divorce gives us two primary understandings of Hell. First, Hell is a place of progressive non-existence. Second, the gates of Hell are always locked from the inside.
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As Jesus teaches us, for a grain of wheat to have life, it must first die. But upon its death, it is transformed into a stalk which produces fruit abundantly. So with Jesus, and so also with us, that death is the prerequisite to an abundant, transformative life.
Looking Through the Cross – The Cross and Reconciliation / The Cross and Life, pt.2 Read More »
The purpose of the Cross isn’t simply to overcome and redefine wisdom, evil, power, identity, suffering, ambition, and failure. Rather, the Cross does these things for the purpose of reconciling humanity both within itself and to God so that we may obtain the mystery of life eternal.
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Through the Cross, our ambition is redirected from ourselves towards others and it is through the Cross that our failures, like Peters, are set aside and overcome.
Looking Through the Cross – The Cross and Ambition/The Cross and Failure, pt.2. Read More »
The Cross, however, calls us not to an individualistic love of selfish ambition, but an ambitious love for others.
Looking Through the Cross – The Cross and Ambition/The Cross and Failure, pt.1. Read More »
