Another classic CS Lewis book!
The people I hear disliking Lewis’ fiction work seem to be misunderstanding what he is. He wasn’t a fiction writer sprinkling in theology. He was a theologian using fiction as a parable to help other understand his point. The Chronicles of Narnia & The Great Divorce show this well also.
Whenever I read Lewis’ 80 year old works, I realize some of these “modern” issues in Christianity aren’t as modern as we may think. Postmodernism was a problem in 1940s England just as much as in 2020s America.
He does such a good job of giving us a perspective we very seldom think about: demons. How they root & cheer for things that most of us think are no big deal, how they try to find the easiest ways to convince us to pursue our own pleasures, how they interact with one another in an effort to get us to slip.
Of course most of this is speculative fiction, but it does make a lot of since in the most interesting ways. And, as Lewis often does, makes me think about my own relationships with others, Jesus, & even the demons themselves.
I’m glad to finally have this one marked off my list so I can think about it for a very long time.