Luther and Lewis

Accordingly, it is true, as people say, that Holy Scripture is a book for heretics, that is, a book which heretics mostly claim for themselves, for no other book has been misused as much—yes, they can boast about no other book. There has never been any heresy so bad or coarse that it did not attempt to conceal and cloak itself with Scripture....Thus Holy Scripture must be a book for heretics, not that it is Scripture’s fault, but the evildoer’s fault, who so shamefully misuse it.—Martin Luther, Sermon for Trinity 8 (the “sheep’s clothing” that the wolves wear, being Scripture) AE 78:287.

The people who look at things have had it all their own way; the people who look along things have simply been browbeaten. It has even come to be taken for granted that the external account of a thing somehow refutes or ‘debunks’ the account given from inside. ‘All these moral ideals which look so transcendental and beautiful from inside,’ says the wiseacre, ‘are really on a mass of biological instincts and inherited taboos.’ And no one plays the game the other way round by replying, ‘If you will only step inside, the things that look to you like instincts and taboos will suddenly reveal their real and transcendental nature.’—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 197, 198.