Sayers, Dorothy L: Strong Meat, v.1, 29 August 2008.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
Strong Meat (1939)
Two short essays on theology:
1. Strong Meat
2. The Dogma is the Drama.
The first is an essay on Time and Eternity.
The second argues that Christianity has been generally misunderstood:
“Let us, in Heaven’s name, drag out the Divine Drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slip-shod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction. If the pious are the first to be shocked, so much the worse for the pious—others will pass into the Kingdom of Heaven before them.”
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