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A Grief Observed
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A Grief Observed Compact disc - 2005

by C. S. Lewis; Read by Ralph Cosham

Summary

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly homest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

From the publisher

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis' honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

Details

  • Title A Grief Observed
  • Author C. S. Lewis; Read by Ralph Cosham
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 2
  • Volumes 2
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blackstone Audiobooks
  • Date October 2005
  • ISBN 9780786175864 / 0786175869
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.5 x 6.62 x 0.43 in (16.51 x 16.81 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Consolation, Lewis, C. S - Religion
  • Dewey Decimal Code 242.4

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