Till We Have Faces 1: Shannon Rose

"Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet."

                  There is a certain eschatological theme to Lewis' works. As Lewis comes from a traditional Christian background, he clearly emphasizes principle Christian beliefs. This quote goes through the idea of the gospel account as told by the disciples and John. A common view of death is morbid and simply an end, but with the philosophy that Lewis has adopted by means of Christianity, death is not an end, but a beginning. Lewis and other popular Christian apologists believe that the world that we live in is fallen due to an evil that has been released due to sin. They also believe that through the death and resurrection of the God incarnate, Jesus Christ, there has been made available an access to an eternal life with man's Creator in heaven. With that belief, then, Lewis interjects the idea that death is no longer something that is an end, but inversely it is a beginning or in this case an escape from the broken world that man has been trapped in all his life.