C.S. Lewis’s ”The Great Divorce” Introductory Episode: All Aboard to Grey Town

2024-11-11

This is the introductory episode of our nine-episode series on C.S. Lewis's novel, "The Great Divorce." We will explore and I hope you enjoy, the ideas presented by Lewis in this fantastic tale, a dream vision, written in response (according to Lewis) to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." Our guests include notable scholars, theologians and friends. In no particular order, they are as follows: Monika Hilder, Brenton Dickieson, Stephen Dunning, David Burnett, Turner Burnett, Elizabeth H...

This is the introductory episode of our nine-episode series on C.S. Lewis's novel, "The Great Divorce."

We will explore and I hope you enjoy, the ideas presented by Lewis in this fantastic tale, a dream vision, written in response (according to Lewis) to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."

Our guests include notable scholars, theologians and friends. In no particular order, they are as follows: Monika Hilder, Brenton Dickieson, Stephen Dunning, David Burnett, Turner Burnett, Elizabeth Hardy, Jess Lederman, Karen Scheffler, and Joel Wentz.

This episode includes a reading of the preface, written by C.S. Lewis. It also containst excerpts from many of the conversations, although we have not yet recorded with Elizabeth Hardy or Joel Wentz. I have no doubt their conversation will be as dazzling as all the others. Welcome to the Plunge: All Aboard for Grey Town!

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments...

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains...

Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your darkness cannot now infect our light...

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