Sept 22: The Problem of Pain: Chapters 8-10

On Sunday, September 22, we'll continue our discussion of The Problem of Pain with Chapters 8-10: "Hell," "Animal Pain," and "Heaven," along with the appendix. Joel Heck will guide us through the chapters by presenting selected sentences from each chapter via a PowerPoint. This worked very well at our last two meetings. Thank you very much, Joel, for your help with one of Lewis's early and more challenging books.

From Ch 8, "Hell," ¶ 1:

Some will not be redeemed.

From Chapter 8, "Hell," ¶ 3:

And here is the real problem: so much mercy, yet still there is hell.

From Chapter 8, "Hell," ¶ 5:

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

The Problem of Pain has ten chapters. We will discuss the chapter(s) in boldface:

Preface

Ch 1: Introductory

Ch 2: Divine Omnipotence

Ch 3: Divine Goodness

Ch 4: Human Wickedness

Ch 5: The Fall of Man

Ch 6: Human Pain

Ch 7: Human Pain, continued

Ch 8: Hell

Ch 9: Animal Pain

Ch 10: Heaven

Appendix

Michael Ward explains the question addressed by The Problem of Pain and the book's main thesis in this 4-minute Hillsdale College video.

Arend Smilde provides his notes on quotations and allusions in The Problem of Pain on his Lewisiana.nl site.

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