I now number it among my greatest mercies that I was permitted for several months, perhaps for a year, to know God and to attempt obedience without even raising that question” (chap. In his spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy, he says of his conversion to theism that it “involved as yet no belief in a future life. But even when he returned to belief in a divine being, he did so without initially believing in life after death. That must have been true during the years (roughly 1913-1929) when he was, or considered himself to be, an atheist. It should be noted first that Lewis had not always been interested in heaven and hell. It can be illuminating to compare the two approaches, to see how Lewis’s discussions of the idea of heaven shape and clarify the images of heaven he created. Many writers have either discussed or depicted heaven and hell few have done both well. In his works of fiction he created several striking descriptions of what heaven (and, in less detail, hell) might be like. In his nonfiction prose he frequently discussed the nature of heaven (and, less frequently, the nature of hell) and explained how to take part in it.
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