Letters to a Diminished Church

Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

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Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as bad press. (Side note: Sayers died in 1957. "Nothing new under the sun" comes to mind here.) We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine - dull dogma as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of the dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama."