Saturday, August 1, 2009

Sayers on evil and sin

From Letters To A Diminished Church:

"It is only with the confident assertion of the creative divinity of the Son that the doctrine of the Incarnation becomes a real revelation of the structure of the world. And here Christianity has its enormous advantage over every other religion in the world. It is the only religion that gives value to evil and suffering. It affirms_not, like Christian Science, that evil has no real existence, nor yet, like Buddhism, that good consists in a refusal to experience evil-but that perfection is attained through the active and positive effort to wrench a real good out of a real evil." (61)

"The people who are discouraged and made most despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behavior at this time are those who think highly of homo sapiens as a product of evolution, and who still cling to an optimistic belief in the civilizing influence of progress and enlightenment." (62)

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