Respected Protestant believed in Purgatory???

QUESTION?

NO Protestant ever believed in Purgatory?

ANSWER!

Not true!

Some Protestants, such as C.S. Lewis, also believe in purgatory.  Walter Hooper was C.S Lewis secretary.  Before that he was a member of Intervarsity Christian fellowship.   In 1963 Lewis asked Walter Hooper to stay in Oxford, move into his house and become his personal secretary.  In 1974 he accepted it. Hooper had this to say; “Lewis believed in purgatory.  Many of his Protestant admirers preferred to keep this quiet but Lewis couldn’t keep it quiet.  And in his last book Letters to Malcolm he brings it up.”  "I believe in Purgatory. . . . Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not beak the heart if God said to us, "It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into the joy?" Should we not reply, "With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first." "It may hurt, you know"--"Even so, sir.'"

C.S Lewis had many admirers both Catholic and Protestant.  Lewis is also responsible, in part, for many Protestant ordained ministers coming into the Catholic Church.  This is because Protestants in general are taught to mistrust Catholic sources.   Lewis was not Catholic and therefore considered safe.  He taught specifically Catholic understandings such as Purgatory.  Even though he was still Protestant, his writings were a bridge to the Catholic faith.