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The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays
Paperback, 275 pages
Published
March 1st 1987
by Collier Books
(first published 1978)
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A collection of 18 essays subtitled “Reflections on God and Man by the Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey”.
Something I thought of while reading the first essay, titled Selections From "The Pantheon Papers", was that it would be really good to write (or for someone with the aptitude and talent to write) a History of the Secular Church. This could be an expanded, book long version of this essay, with anecdotes about the "saints" of Secularism, stories about how doctrine has changed over the centuries,...more
Something I thought of while reading the first essay, titled Selections From "The Pantheon Papers", was that it would be really good to write (or for someone with the aptitude and talent to write) a History of the Secular Church. This could be an expanded, book long version of this essay, with anecdotes about the "saints" of Secularism, stories about how doctrine has changed over the centuries,...more
Terrific, and well worth reading. I discussed this book somewhat with my father (who hasn't read it yet) but also read parts of it to him out loud, and he was impressed with how little the world has changed in the fifty years or more since this was written. Dorothy Sayers is a great writer in the British tradition, s...he takes simple ideas and shows why they matter, and this book shows some interesting politcal insight as well.
This book was originally titled *Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World*, which I think is a better indicator of its contents. Fabulous stuff!
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Chapter 2, as one of five books addressed to the heart of things.
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Intro to Part Three, as one of Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By---Selected for Those to Whom Making Sense Is a Prior Consideration, but a Minority Opinion.
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Intro to Part Three, as one of Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By---Selected for Those to Whom Making Sense Is a Prior Consideration, but a Minority Opinion.
Dorothy Sayers isn't everyone's cup of tea. Her prose is more complex than C.S. Lewis's, so she's harder to read and comprehend. But it's worth the extra effort. There's a sharp intellect at work there with much to say that's still very relevant decades later.
Very thought-provoking and well-written, for people who like clever and beautifully-crafted language. The essay "Problem Picture" is brilliant--I find myself going back to it again and again.
interesting slant on christianity...
I loved this book of religious essays by the mystery writer Sayers. I wish more of her religious material was available in print. She's awesome.
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herse...more
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Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herse...more
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“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring to the sort of patronizing recognition we give a writer by nodding our heads and observing, “Yes, yes, very good, very true—that’s just what I’m always saying.” I mean the recognition of a truth that tells us something about ourselves that we had not been always saying, something that puts a new knowledge of ourselves withint our grasp. It is new, startling, and perhaps shattering, and yet it comes to us with a sense of familiarity. We did not know it before, but the moment the poet how shown it to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always really known it.”
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“What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”
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