God in the Dock

by C.S. Lewis

What really matters is the argument that there must be an answer: the argument that if, in our own lives, where alone (if at all) we know Him, we come to recognize the pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova,13 then, in other realms where we cannot know Him (connaître), though we may know (savoir) some few things about Him—then, despite appearances to the contrary, He cannot be a power of darkness.

you may say, to address to a First Cause, an Ens Realissimum, or an Unmoved Mover.

The first and fatal charm of national repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing—but, first, of denouncing—the conduct of others.

But this change was not gradual. It occurred at the precise moment when chapel ceased to be compulsory.

Among modern translations those of Dr Moffatt5 and Monsignor Knox6 seem to me particularly good.

But she is absent both from the Last Supper5 and from the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost.

There were prophetesses even in Old Testament times. Prophetesses, not priestesses.

But in our Christian life we must return to reality. There we are not homogeneous units, but different and complementary organs of a mystical body.

what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at the bar of enlightened common sense, then we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion.

from members of extreme Protestant sects (e.g. Baptists).