I’m still paging through Creed or Chaos (1948) when free time presents itself. Sayers has left us with an incredible little treatise on what she called “the importance of Christian doctrine.” Here’s just one of many thought provoking excerpts:
The task is not made easier by the obstinate refusal of a great body of nominal Christians, both lay and clerical, to face the theological question. ‘Take away theology and give us some nice religion’ has been a popular slogan for so long that we are apt to accept it, without inquiring whether religion without theology has any meaning. And however unpopular I may make myself, I shall and will affirm that the reason why the Churches are discredited today is not that they are too bigoted about theology, but that they have run away from theology … I would like to point out that if we really want a Christian society we must teach Christianity, and that is absolutely impossible to teach Christianity without teaching Christian dogma (33).
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