Rain piercing the flesh
I just finished my second read through of C. S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”. It’s a small book like most of his works. No one can say he’s unnecessarily verbose. I guess I am really infatuated with the simplicity and succinctness of his thought.
I have confessed in these pages before of my need to surround myself with wordy explanations of concepts that in fact I really just don’t get. I get Lewis. Lewis doesn’t seem to need the literary slight-of-hand I see in many other’s works.
During this time in history (1850-1955) a renaissance of religious thought was winding up. The modernization of Christian ideals throughout Western civilization in Lutheran divergent sects and even a more educated populous (who didn’t watch so much TV) lead to a myriad of religious ideas being resurrected (pardon the pun) and really an overall confused religious center. With a civilian population who had read through the “Consensus Tigurinus” and many other issues of Christian history, leaders of this time were forced to new highs in explaining the mysteries. This is where an awful lot of slight-of-hand in religious thought takes place.
Despite this C. S. Lewis wrote his works as if to children. I believe if you would have asked him, he might have said that, this is true, and also that more adults make a tragic mistake in searching for answers above the level of innocence one ascribes to childhood.
I am going to reread “The Screwtape Letters” over this weekend, because I have “The Problem with Pain” on my list next, but I’ve no time to buy it until Monday :>(. Blah
I have confessed in these pages before of my need to surround myself with wordy explanations of concepts that in fact I really just don’t get. I get Lewis. Lewis doesn’t seem to need the literary slight-of-hand I see in many other’s works.
During this time in history (1850-1955) a renaissance of religious thought was winding up. The modernization of Christian ideals throughout Western civilization in Lutheran divergent sects and even a more educated populous (who didn’t watch so much TV) lead to a myriad of religious ideas being resurrected (pardon the pun) and really an overall confused religious center. With a civilian population who had read through the “Consensus Tigurinus” and many other issues of Christian history, leaders of this time were forced to new highs in explaining the mysteries. This is where an awful lot of slight-of-hand in religious thought takes place.
Despite this C. S. Lewis wrote his works as if to children. I believe if you would have asked him, he might have said that, this is true, and also that more adults make a tragic mistake in searching for answers above the level of innocence one ascribes to childhood.
I am going to reread “The Screwtape Letters” over this weekend, because I have “The Problem with Pain” on my list next, but I’ve no time to buy it until Monday :>(. Blah