Cs Lewis The Great Devorice

[StoneThrower]

I just finished CS Lewis "The Great Divorce" this morning like all of his fiction it was hard to put down and easy to read all at once. The book brought up some interesting questions like what is the great divorce.
Was it just a way of dealing with the death of his wife Joy Davidson?
Is it the death to self that salvation requires?
Is it just death in general separation from the body?
The book ends at the beginning of the story.

Also I have labeled Lewis a Universalist by his other writing the Last Battle being the first that comes to mind. Yet he refers to his teacher in the story as being a Universalist in his former life, and the teacher says don’t worry about it it’s beyond humans. Was this just to give himself a pass?

Anyone have any thoughts on this, it has value and is worth the read as it discusses the sins that keeps man from true salvation mixed in a very clouded story.

 

[JPCusick]

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I just finished CS Lewis "The Great Divorce" this morning like all of his fiction it was hard to put down and easy to read all at once. The book brought up some interesting questions like what is the great divorce.
Was it just a way of dealing with the death of his wife Joy Davidson?
Is it the death to self that salvation requires?
Is it just death in general separation from the body?
The book ends at the beginning of the story.

I like C.S. Lewis nonfiction books like Mere Christianity, but I do not like his fiction books.

Here in a shorter context - according to the famous Wikipedia: "The Great Divorce" means a divorce or separation between heaven and hell.

Link = The Great Divorce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also I have labeled Lewis a Universalist by his other writing the Last Battle being the first that comes to mind. Yet he refers to his teacher in the story as being a Universalist in his former life, and the teacher says don’t worry about it it’s beyond humans. Was this just to give himself a pass?

Anyone have any thoughts on this, it has value and is worth the read as it discusses the sins that keeps man from true salvation mixed in a very clouded story.

A "Universalist" really means Catholic since "Catholic" means universal, as in the universal Church / Catholic Church.

Of course I expect that you have some totally different meaning to the word universalist.

I myself am a universalist by this definition here = Universalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because in the end every person throughout all of humanity will be saved with not even one sinful sheep being lost.

 

[StoneThrower]

I like C.S. Lewis nonfiction books like Mere Christianity, but I do not like his fiction books.

Here in a shorter context - according to the famous Wikipedia: "The Great Divorce" means a divorce or separation between heaven and hell.

Link = The Great Divorce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



A "Universalist" really means Catholic since "Catholic" means universal, as in the universal Church / Catholic Church.

Of course I expect that you have some totally different meaning to the word universalist.

I myself am a universalist by this definition here = Universalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because in the end every person throughout all of humanity will be saved with not even one sinful sheep being lost.

Hi Jimmy,
I was actually looking for some thoughts based on the forums reading of it, VS Wikipedia.
As for your veiws on Universalism you’re incorrect as usual sir. You’re mixing the definition of Catholic in the Apostles Creed with the Hersey of which you and the president subscribe to.

 

[JPCusick]

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Hi Jimmy,
I was actually looking for some thoughts based on the forums reading of it, VS Wikipedia.

It seems like you are asking or expecting too much ...

... if you think that the nit-wits on this board might actually read the text.

Wikipedia gave the answer = that the "Great Divorce" was the divorce between heaven and hell.

Of course people or souls do NOT go either to heaven or to a hell, so the entire premises is misleading and wrong.

As for your veiws on Universalism you’re incorrect as usual sir. You’re mixing the definition of Catholic in the Apostles Creed with the Hersey of which you and the president subscribe to.

I was just telling the two for the benefit of anyone reading who might not know.

The Catholic Church certainly does NOT teach or preach the universal salvation as told in the real Gospel of Jesus Christ.