The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Week 16: Review & Reflection — The Whole Journey
Review your notes and journal entries from all weeks of The Great Divorce.
Previewing Week 16 of The Great Divorce
Read 3 of 8 discussion questions below. Unlock the complete 16-week guide when you’re ready.
Having traveled with Lewis from the Grey Town to the foothills of Heaven and back, take time now to look across the whole landscape — what you have seen, what has changed, and what you will do about it.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Which Ghost's encounter was most convicting to you personally — the cynical intellectual, the Episcopal bishop, the Tragedian, the lizard-carrier, the possessive mother, or another? What made that particular portrait feel closest to home?
2.Lewis's central image is that sin makes us insubstantial — pale, thin, shadowy — while holiness makes us more solid, more real, more fully ourselves. How has this metaphor changed or deepened the way you understand sanctification and the Christian life?
3.MacDonald says there are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Thy will be done.' Honestly: which direction does your life most naturally pull? What would it look like, concretely, to reorient?