C. S. LEWIS (CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS) (1898-1963)
ÉRUDIT LITTÉRAIRE IRLANDAIS, APOLOGISTE CHRÉTIEN ET ÉCRIVAIN
REFLECTIONS ON THE PSALMS, 1955
We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that cut- and-dried, fool-proof, systematic fashion we might have expected or desired. He wrote no book. We have only reported sayings, most of them uttered in answer to questions, shaped in some degree by their context. . . . Since this is what God has done, this, we must conclude, was best. It may be that what we should have liked would have been fatal to us if granted. It may be indispensable that Our Lord’s teaching, by that elusiveness (to our systematising intellect),should demand a response from the whole man, should make it so clear that there is no question of learning a subject but of steeping ourselves in a Personality, acquiring a new outlook and temper, breathing a new atmosphere, suffering Him, in His own way, to rebuild in us the defaced image of Himself.
C. S. LEWIS (CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS) (1898–1963)
IRISH LITERARY SCHOLAR, CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST AND WRITER
REFLECTIONS ON THE PSALMS, 1955