The Great Divorce

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• The Great Divorce By C.S. Lewis

  Classic spiritual allegory Publisher's comments: What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer ... (read full critics)

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  A wonderful story by C. S. Lewis. This book really makes a person think about their life and the importance (or lack thereof) of what we worry so much about.

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  Netopalis said on Apr 29, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  This is a fast read that deals with the path of repentance, and the various obstacles to it. Lewis also writes powerfully of the glories that await us in eternity concerning the realities of unstoppable love and joy. He also deals with the paradox of free-will and Divine appointment by shedding ligh ... (continue)

  This is a fast read that deals with the path of repentance, and the various obstacles to it. Lewis also writes powerfully of the glories that await us in eternity concerning the realities of unstoppable love and joy. He also deals with the paradox of free-will and Divine appointment by shedding light on our problem of time-based thinking. The book is not intended as an illustration of heaven and hell and should not be taken as such. There is no active wrath poured out from God in these pages, but it is alluded to in the coming darkness. The idea of choice after death is problematic, but again, that is not what he was illustrating, but rather that our free choices are all contained in every moment and final from the beginning. No man attains Hell, except that he choose it, yet this is not in conflict with God's predetermined destiny for that soul.

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  Brandon Current said on Mar 27, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This fiction opens our eyes as well as imagination to how possibly could the heaven be like. It's stunning. Everything in heaven is so real that it's so heavy and may cause pains for those whose faith is too little.

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  Kischampagne said on Jun 30, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Lewis, in his dream, is on a bus from Gray Town - a hell of a place - and is being conducted through 'heaven' by George Macdonald. Little by little he is introduced to the behaviour and attitude of the other Ghosts from Gray Town. He listens in on conversations, watches the scenes between the Ghosts ... (continue)

  Lewis, in his dream, is on a bus from Gray Town - a hell of a place - and is being conducted through 'heaven' by George Macdonald. Little by little he is introduced to the behaviour and attitude of the other Ghosts from Gray Town. He listens in on conversations, watches the scenes between the Ghosts and the Solid People and questions Macdonald as to what it all means.

  An easy book to read. Flows smoothly from one incident to the next. It has some memorable pieces: the wife, who on earth, did everything for her husband, and still wants to take charge of him in Gray Town; there is the orthodox bishop who is holding meetings in Gray Town about the truth Christ would have arrived at if He hadn't been crucified. Each of these pictures is told to provoke us to ask questions of ourselves. The final scene between Sarah Smith of Golders Green and her husband is really striking.

  Lewis brings out the very real truth that people demand pity, and prevent others from being happy by their wretched behaviour. But in heaven hell shall have no veto on happiness. If people chose to perish - so be it! Those who inherit heaven shall be so filled with His love that no one shall prevent them being happy. Even the doomed shall be forgotten!

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  GraJon said on Jun 6, 2008 | Add your feedback

• x, 146 p. ; 21 cm.

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  Brian Hamilton said on May 8, 2007 | Add your feedback

• A fantastic bus ride from hell to heaven--a round trip for some but not for others

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  dcspinks said on Mar 28, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 128 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0805420487
• ISBN-13: 9780805420487
• Publisher: Broadman & Holman Pub
• Pub date: Apr 01, 2000
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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