The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
Week 10: Review & Reflection
Review your notes and journal entries from the entire book, The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis.
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You have spent nine weeks with one of the great Christian voices of the twentieth century — now take stock of what you've heard, what has changed, and what you're being called to carry forward.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Looking back across all nine essays, which one hit you hardest — either because it named something you already believed but had never articulated, or because it challenged something you thought you knew? Why this one?
2.Lewis delivered these addresses during World War II, a time of fear, death, and uncertainty. How did that context shape the way you read them? In what ways do the pressures of your own moment in history make these essays feel urgent or relevant?
3.Several essays ("The Weight of Glory," "A Slip of the Tongue," "The Inner Ring") circle around the same theme: the human heart's tendency to settle for something less than God. How has your understanding of this tendency — and of the gospel's answer to it — deepened over the course of this study?