For Lewis, Christianity is at its best when it is rooted in the past and engaged with the present. In explaining what he meant by “Deep Church,” Lewis declared that it designated “the Christian religion as understood ubique et ab omnibus”—a shortened form of a Latin tagline, meaning “the faith believed everywhere and by everyone”—in other words, a basic consensual orthodoxy. Lewis put it like this in 1944: we need a “standard of plain, central Christianity (‘mere Christianity’ as Baxter called it).”[100] This is not some “insipid” minimalist conception of Christianity, reduced to its lowest
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