S4E64 – Bonus – “We shall get in: C.S. Lewis and the Hope of Heaven”
Andrew Lazo was asked to speak at the 2021 Edith Stein Conference, hosted by Notre Dame University.
Andrew Lazo was asked to speak at the 2021 Edith Stein Conference, hosted by Notre Dame University.
Today I speak to Dr. Louis Markos, Professor in English at Houston Baptist University and author of the book Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition. In this work, Professor Markos devotes a chapter to The Great Divorce, as well as the book to which Lewis was responding, Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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Last week we read that Sarah Smith was starting to get through to her ghostly husband. In today’s chapter we see the conclusion of that encounter and MacDonald explains why misery must one day be unable to affect joy…
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Today we take our first steps into Heaven! The bus in which Lewis had been travelling alights in a new country and the passengers take their first tentative steps into this strange land…
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Last week we looked at “charity”, and today we look at another of the theological virtues, hope. Out of this entire book, this is probably David’s favourite chapter…