LITERARY DELIGHT

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) professor and author wrote:

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only “mouth honor” and that decreasingly… It is, if you like to put it that way, not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite, it excludes or repels, the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force (an impressive performance or achievement). You are cutting the wood against the grain, using the tool for a purpose it was not intended to serve. It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long except to those who go to it for something quite different.” (From ‘Selected Literary Essays’)

“He who does not love me does not keep my words. The word, which you hear, is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.” Jesus