so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity.”62 God, in Lewis’s mind, was clearly no indulgent, doting grandfather. To the contrary, God was fierce in seeking our salvation. Of course, as Lewis would say in The Four Loves, God’s unremitting love would ultimately lead to the cross: He creates the universe, already foreseeing—or should we say “seeing”? There are no tenses in God—the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against