Letters To A Diminished Church

by Sayers, Dorthy

• ISBN13: 9780849945267
• ISBN10: 0849945267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-08
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Summary

What must a person believe to be a Christian? Dorothy Sayers lays out age-old doctrines without prettying-up or watering-down. She brings them vividly to life by showing how the Bible, history, literature, and modern science fit together to make religion not only possible but necessary in our time.So whether you are reading the great works of Western literature, thinking about your place in God's universe, or simply dealing with the thousand-and-one problems of daily living, this powerful book has words of both challenge and comfort for you.Excerpt:Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore--and this in the Name of One who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which He passed through this world like a flame.  Let us, in Heaven's name, drag out the Divine Drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slipshod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction.

Table of Contents

The Greatest Drama Ever Staged	1	(8)
What Do We Believe?	9	(6)
The Dogma Is the Drama	15	(8)
The Image of God	23	(12)
Creative Mind	35	(14)
Creed or Chaos?	49	(24)
Strong Meat	73	(8)
The Other Six Deadly Sins	81	(28)
Christian Morality	109	(8)
The Triumph of Easter	117	(8)
Why Work?	125	(22)
Toward a Christian Esthetic	147	(24)
The Faust Legend and the Idea of the Devil	171	(22)
A Vote of Thanks to Cyrus	193	(10)
The Writing and Reading of Allegory	203	(38)
Problem Picture	241	(36)
Notes	277