Sunday 3 March 2019

Who Drives The Bus?

"'Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend - a man can sympathise with a horse but a horse cannot sympathise with a rat. Only One has descended into Hell.'"
-CS Lewis, The Great Divorce (London, 1982), p. 114.

So Who drives the bus that transports the Ghosts from the grey town?

Although I do not share Lewis' belief in a hereafter, I note that his belief differs from that of the Evangelicals. The saved are those who have made a right moral choice, not necessarily those who have undergone an Evangelical conversion.
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2 comments:

  1. Sean M. Brooks3 March 2019 at 09:42

    Kaor, Paul!

    Darn, I never thought of that before, wondering who exactly was the Bus Driver. Not necessarily the Highest Himself, mind you. THE GREAT DIVORCE now joins the impossibly long list of books I should reread!

    I'm not surprised Lewis' views differed from "Evangelicals." He came to adhere to a gentler strain of Protestantism more open in some ways to Catholic influences. The devoutly Catholic JRR Tolkien was one of his best friends, recall.

    Sean

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  2. paulshackley2017@gmail.com3 March 2019 at 11:37

    Sean,
    Evangelicals quote Lewis, though.
    Paul.

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