num_pages: 94
description: The death of a loved one, particularly a spouse or child, is one of the most shattering experiences that humans are required to endure. In A Grief Observed, a highly personal journal, C. S. Lewis records his immediate thoughts and feelings as he searches, seemingly in vain at first, for some consolation in the death of his beloved wife, Joy, and the painful separation it entailed. Lewis had met and married Joy late in his life and much of their short time together was taken up with her suffering from cancer.As Lewis confronts his despair in these journal entries, his intense feelings play out in dialogue with his theological reasoning, revealing the internal war raging between his intellect and his feelings. In The Problem of Pain Lewis wrote as a theologian. Now in A Grief Observed he writes from the perspective of the sufferer -- and remarkably his theology is consistent.As his heavy heart begins to lighten and his mourning gives way to a sense of restoration and peace, he discovers a continuing sense that in the end, "all manner of things shall be well".
language: English
title: A Grief Observed
titlecomplete: A Grief Observed
characters: C.S. Lewis
genres: Faith, Religion, Biography, Philosophy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Theology, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 77200
publisher: Harper Collins Publisher