C.S. Lewis’s 1945 novel The Great Divorce will be the foundation for a discussion group. This Adult Education class will meet weekly (with some exceptions) in Room 213. Richard Bell will serve as the class’s facilitator.

“The Great Divorce arose out of Lewis’ interest in the nature of spiritual choices. The idea for
allowing damned spirits a “holiday” in Heaven was suggested to him by his reading of the
seventeenth century Anglican divine Jeremy Taylor, who introduced him to the ancient Catholic
notion of Refrigerium – that the damned are given occasional repose from the torments of Hell by
being granted “days off” in other places. The title of the book was a play on William Blake’s’ The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell – Lewis implying that no such marriage is possible.”*

*Excerpt from Study Guide of The Great Divorce found on cslewis.org.