Stop being so “sensible” - 21 June 2011 |
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Here’s C. S. Lewis extolling the virtues of Athanasius, On the Incarnation, and in the process making a pretty compelling case for reading old books:
“[Athanasius] stood for the Trinitarian doctrine, ‘whole and undefiled,’ when it looked as if all the civilised world was slipping back from Christianity into the religion of Arius – into one of those ’sensible’ synthetic religions which are so strongly recommended today and which, then as now, included among their devotees many highly cultivated clergymen. It is his glory that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, as all times do, have moved away.”
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog