![]() It feels like Lewis has stuffed the book as full of his thoughts about Christian belief, angels, prayer, about the nature of obedience, charity and love on the one hand – and on the other, produced a huge gallery of characters, organisations, beliefs and behaviours which he thinks plague modern life and which all stem, at bottom, from a loss of faith in God. As is so often the case in concluding volumes, it is significantly longer than the previous members of the series ( Out of The Silent Planet 58,715 words, Perelandra 85,376 words, That Hideous Strength 156,719 words, double its predecessor, nearly three times as long as the first story) and it really feels like it. That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume in C.S. ‘A conscious being is either obeying God or disobeying Him.’ Dr Dimble ![]()
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