Popular Posts from the Past: Getting Your Theology on Track
Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 9:02PM [This is yet another post from my blogging past. The day after Christmas 2005, I put this post together on the spur of the moment right before I flew off to Vancouver for a week’s holiday. During my holiday, I pretty much forgot I even had a blog, and it I was a little surprised to come back and find that there had been quite a bit of response to this post, both in the comments and on other blogs. Current events, not to mention a little summertime blogger’s block, played a part in my choosing to repost this particular post right now . ]
Generally speaking, I’m a C. S. Lewis fan. I’m willing to overlook disagreements I have with his theology because of the clarity of his writing. There is, however, a book of his I didn’t like at all, and that’s A Grief Observed. It came highly recommended to me, and I read it twice after my husband died, but I found it much more disturbing than helpful. His wife’s death brings Lewis to a place of real despair, something I tried to understand, but just couldn’t, even though our circumstances were very similar. I couldn’t help wondering how he’d thought God worked in the world that something like his wife’s suffering and death would pull the rug out from under his faith.
