05 August 2020

Luther and Lewis

Therefore, learn here to beware and to take a good look at whether all teaching correctly conveys and emphasizes this important point and basis, that is, whether it preaches Christ correctly and purely. You will certainly find that all fanatics and sectarians always either completely discard this article or add something to it, guiding people to this as if it were a work especially necessary for salvation.—Martin Luther, Sermon for Trinity 8, AE 78:289

We do not know in advance whether the lover or the psychologist is giving the more correct account of love, or whether both accounts are equally correct in different ways, or whether both are equally wrong. We just have to find out. But the period of browbeating has got to end. [i.e., he means of discounting the lover’s inside view of love as opposed to the psychologist’s outside view]—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 200.

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