Thursday 30 April 2009

DOCTRINE

'Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as "a bad press". We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much on doctrine - "dull dogma", as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.'
Dorothy L Sayers, 'The Greatest Drama Ever Staged' in Creed or Chaos? p.1.