This quote is a shout out to my brother J. McGregor over at the heady musings blog. He sent me a link to J. Daryl Charles’ book “Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things” a few weeks ago, and I got the book in a few days ago. I’m only a couple of chapters in, but you just wait, I’ve got a lot to ponder over and share with you all right here. Man, do I ever! But today’s excerpt is Charles’ commentary on the importance and effectiveness of contending for “permanent” Truth through the use of literature.
“Writers such as G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Sayers, and C.S. Lewis, despite being generations removed, retain immense popularity among American Christians, due to their extraordinary fecund imagination and lucid defense of Christian basics… Of these writers, literary critic Ian Crowther has well remarked; “it was never enough simply to capture the spiritual aridity of modern life,” which they did splendidly. “It was also necessary to speak of a moral order which, although only perhaps surviving in scattered remnants in contemporary society, may yet be restored by the expressive power and beauty of the written word.” - pg. 34-35
Kind of makes this conference sound all the more amazing:
HT: irruption
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