By far, Lewis’ best book (IMHO) is the book he wrote while abreacting the death of his beloved wife, entitled A Grief Observed. The following is his understanding of Mr. Magoo, er…. love.
“For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives… a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.”
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Sounds like the Gospel to me Clive Staples.
Reminds me of Kierkegaard’s Works of Love. In it he says that true love (seen perfectly by Jesus) is both blind and all seeing. All seeing of faults (‘scars and all’) and yet blind to them as any sort of barrier for love.
By far Lewis’ best book…
Have you guys read TILL WE HAVE FACES? It’s his last work of fiction, dedicated to his wife Joy.
I’ve read Till We Have Faces. What a book!! What are your thoughts Stamper?
I love it, Drake.
For those on this thread who haven’t, it is a fictional riff on two mythic stories: the book of Job and the myth of Pysche and Cupid. It’s a wonderful story. It is also a story in which Lewis makes the main character a woman and showers huge amounts of love down on her.
dpotter, couldn’t agree more! John, I’ll add “Till we have faces” to the long list of “book I should read when I have free time”