Clark) and it was only posthumously attributed to Lewis. Lewis 4.2 (91) Paperback 14.49 15.99 Save 9 Hardcover 16.99 Paperback 14.49 eBook 13.99 Audiobook 0. It’s interesting to point out that A Grief Observed was originally published under a pseudonym (N. Has grief and loss influenced your faith and has it helped shape your views on God? But that doesn’t make the path through grief easy to walk. Either way, mustn’t the conversation stop?” Cut one off, or cut both off simultaneously. “Time and space and body were the very thing that brought us together the telephone wires by which we communicated. “And how immensely improbable that it should be otherwise!” he seemingly shouts. “Alone into the Alone,” is what Lewis said Joy would tell him. He knew that the journey toward death, and eventually death itself, was an individual road. The truth is, like any substantive theological view, Lewis is working out his view in light of his experience and finding the eternal truths of God to be abiding, at least he’ll return to such a confidence as he continues his notes. Lewis, author of A Grief Observed, stands in a field near Magdalen College at Oxford University, England, in 1946. Now that grief has touched him so closely, theology seems a distant neighbor to its reality. “The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him.”īecause, if God allows such horrendous things to occur here, under his watch, where is the confidence that such a God can be relied on once the end comes? That’s another question that Lewis circles round and round in this first chapter. “Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God,” he surmises.

In chapter one the loaded question is, “Where is God?” Lewis feels abandoned, like a door slammed in his face and bolted shut.

A grief observed by cs lewis