C. S. Lewis was profoundly changed, as one should be, by his marriage to Joy Davidman.
A Grief Observed is his ordeal of dealing with her death in light of the Gospel and the goodness of God. We turn to chapter two at present since
chapter one is discussed in a previous entry. Chapter one concludes with Lewis still hearing her voice vividly, a voice that can turn him into a "whimpering child" at any moment.
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The 28th volume of
Seven is now available. It's a journal that is annually published by the Wade Center at Wheaton College. It get its name from the seven authors the Center ties together. Many know them as the Inklings. In 1965, Clyde Kilby fashioned the group and began collecting writings and forming relationships with key contacts. The seven: Owen Barfield, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
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A Grief Observed is the subject for the next few entries. It's a short book of four chapters and it's a notebook of sorts as Lewis wrestles with his wife's death.
The Problem of Pain was written years earlier (1940) but this account, as Douglas Gresham references in its introduction, is, "a stark recounting of one man's studied attempts to come to grips with and in the end defeat the emotional paralysis of the most shattering grief of his life."
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