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March 6, 2019, 2:23pm
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Is Theology Poetry? makes sense of the @jordan . CS Lewis makes a distinction between evolutionary science (with which he has no problem) and the grand narrative of evolution (with which he does object). In this letter, is he talking about the science or the narrative?
The Dreaming and Waking Worlds
As a final thought, I will still add one more parable, from one of my regular “conversation” partners, the great C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis writes in Is Theology Poetry? … (http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/Theology=Poetry_CSL.pdf )
This is how I distinguish dreaming and waking. When I am awake I can, in some degree, account for and study my dream. The dragon that pursued me last night can be fitted into my waking world. I know that there are such things as dreams; I know that I had eaten an indigestible dinner; I know that a man of my reading might be expected to dream of dragons. But while in the nightmare I could not have fitted in my waking experience. The waking world is judged more real because it can thus contain the dreaming world; the dreaming world is judged less real because it cannot contain the waking one. For the same reason I am certain that in passing from the scientific points of view to the theological, I have passed from dream to waking. Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and [other] religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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