Chapter Seven: A Christian Viewpoint
CHAPTER SEVEN: A CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT
1. C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley (London: HarperCollins, 2000), 1–21, with quote from 21.
2. See, e.g., Ann Loades, “C. S. Lewis: Grief Observed, Rationality Abandoned, Faith Regained,” Literature and Theology 3 (1989): 107–21; Alister McGrath, “The Cross, Suffering and Theological Bewilderment: Reflections on Martin Luther and C. S. Lewis,” in The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 57–69.
3. For the argument, see Alister E. McGrath, The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 115–216.
4. Iris Murdoch, “The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts,” in Existentialists and Mystics, ed. Peter Conradi (London: Chatto, 1998), 363–85, with quote from 368.
5. John Ruskin, Works, ed. E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, 39 vols. (London: Allen, 1903–12), 5:333.
6. This suggestive phrase was first used by Eugene Wigner, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (1960): 1–14.
7. Charles A. Coulson, Science and Christian Belief (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 22.
8. Henry Drummond, The Ascent of Man, 7th ed. (New York: James Pott, 1897), 334.
9. See John Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 34–85; Eric F. Osborn, Irenaeus of Lyons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 51–141.
10. Athanasius, De incarnatione 12; also see Khaled Anatolios, Athanasius (London: Routledge, 2004), 41–43.
11. John Polkinghorne, Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding (London: SPCK, 1988), 20–21; see further idem, Belief in God in an Age of Science (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).