When we think about the beliefs of the old world—say, how Roland could not break his sword because it had become “enchanted” with holiness, or how Saint Benedict caused clay vessels bearing poison to crack when he blessed them—we are entertained, but feel a little uneasy. In modernity it is often the case that the “bodily” and the “spiritual” don’t go together well. And for this reason, Lewis thought that “probably every Christian now alive finds a difficulty in reconciling the two things he has been told about heaven—that it is . . . a life in Christ, a vision of God, a ceaseless adoration,
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