A Holiday to Heaven: A Discussion of ‘The Great Divorce’ by C.S. Lewis

Wade Center - A podcast by Wade Center at Wheaton College (IL)

What would happen if people could leave Hell and visit Heaven? In this week’s episode, Dr. David Downing sits down with Dr. Jerry Root to discuss C.S. Lewis’s spiritual fantasy about inhabitants of hell who visit take a bus ride to the outskirts of heaven, The Great Divorce. Where did Lewis get the idea(s) for the book? What was Lewis trying to say about who ends up in heaven and hell?