Book Study: "The Great Divorce" by C. S. Lewis Part 2

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For all you C.S. Lewis fans: This summer, Stuart Powell and Jack Lloyd will lead a two-part discussion of Lewis’s “The Great Divorce,” an imaginative journey in the afterlife.

Stuart Powell brings a special personal connection to C.S. Lewis in that one of his good friends from his hometown of Reidsville was Fr. Walter Hooper, a preeminent international authority on C.S. Lewis and his works.

In the summer of 1963, Walter Hooper visited Lewis at his cottage, The Kilns, and after several subsequent meetings Lewis offered Hooper a job as his correspondence secretary. He stayed with Lewis and his brother Warren for a month where Walter became a member of the Lewis household typing letters that Lewis dictated to him.

After Lewis’s death on November 22, 1963, Hooper returned to Oxford, cared for Lewis’s brother, Warnie, and devoted the rest of his life to being the literary executor, and later, as an advisor to Lewis’ estate and the author of numerous books on Lewis’s life and works.

Stuart and Walter Hooper began a friendship in the summer of 1973 when Hooper was home visiting in Reidsville from Oxford. Over the years, they corresponded frequently by letter. Stuart and Martha Kay visited Walter in Oxford in 2000. Stuart and Walter had many conversations over the years about Lewis and other of the Oxford Inklings.  There were many personal anecdotes of the time Walter spent living with Lewis and his brother at The Kilns.

No prior experience with Lewis’s work is required. Participants are required to purchase their own copy of the book and read it prior to the event.

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