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Sunday, January 2, 2011

As a new year begins, I find this quote from Dorothy Sayers to be timely...even though it was written in 1938:

Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as “a bad press.”
We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine—”dull dogma,” as people call it.
The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man—and the dogma is the drama. . . .
Now, we may call that doctrine exhilarating or we may call it devastating;
we may call it revelation or we may call it rubbish;
but if we call it dull, then words have no meaning at all.
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1 comment:

Jacob Ellis Hart said...

I like the quote. I think its funny how so many quotes of yesteryear seem to fit perfectly today, its makes you ponder what those individuals would actually say about today when they say things like that then.