So how does this way of thinking relate to Easter \u2014 to the Christian story of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, marked by so many at this time of the year? While Lewis\u2019s writings show him to have had a good grasp of basic Christian theological themes by 1940, his appreciation of their existential depth seems to have emerged later. His Grief Observed, from 1961, incorporates the suffering of Christ on Good Friday into his reflections on his wife\u2019s slow and lingering death from cancer, leading him to a deeper grasp of the ability of the Christian faith to support people in times of bewilderment and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In much the same way, Lewis\u2019s later realisation that he himself was dying seems to have prompted a more profound reflection on the meaning of Christ\u2019s resurrection. In some of his letters in the final months of his illness, Lewis spoke of the hope that he had in the face of death. He was, he wrote, \u201ca seed waiting in the good earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener\u2019s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of Lewis\u2019s fans will make the pilgrimage to Holy Trinity church and stand silently by his graveside. Yet while Lewis\u2019s gravestone might speak of our shared mortality, his works and his witness point to something more profound \u2014 hope in a greater reality and a better realm, whose door has been thrown open by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Andrea Mantegna
The Resurrection (detail)
c.1459 pic.twitter.com\/Zkuc4KH3DJ<\/a><\/p>— Solas (@solas_na_greine) March 31, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>