#101 Alister McGrath: Suffering, death and Lewis’ final years
The C.S. Lewis podcast
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How Lewis Responded to the Death of Joy Davidman
The book is widely used to this day as a classical card of the grieving process. Lewis wrote it under a pen name as a way of helping his own bereavement because it was so successful. The fact that it has proved so helpful to other people, if you like, is a bonus. But Lewis, I think, really saw this primarily as self-therapy.
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