Hell In A Handbasket: Views Of The Afterlife From Homer’s Odyssey To C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters
What happens after we die? People have wondered about the afterlife, from the earliest pre-Christians to contemporary thinkers. In this class, we will explore classics like Homer’s Odyssey; apocalypses (revelations about the afterlife) from the early centuries of Christianity; Dante’s Divine Comedy; and C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. Judith Davis, Professor Emerita of French and Humanities, is retired from Goshen College She has taught Lifelong Learning classes on the Virgin Mary and on New Testament apocrypha, among others.