Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
—The Great Divorce, Chapter 11
Thanks, Kendall, for that choice nuggett.
[b]The Great Divorce[/b] is one of my favorite C. S. Lewis books, along with the [b]Screwtape Letters[/b] and [b]Perelandra[/b]. The sort of brilliant, penetrating insight reflected in the snippet you cite above illustrates how immensely stiumulating the fertile imagination of Lewis can be. Although he was also a master of marvelously lucid logical reasoning and persuasive apologetics (most famously in works like [b]Mere Christianity[/b] or [b]The Abolition of Man[/b]), personally, I believe that his powerful “left brain” reasoning abilities were only wxceeded by his incredibly rich right brain (his intuitive, artistic side or sanctified imagination).
To me, C. S. Lewis epitomizes a truth I often like to express this way, and which Anglicanism at its best embodies rather well:
[b]God gave us both a right brain and left brain. I think he expects us to use them both.[/b]
David Handy+