Patricia Hofer

Christian experience

Doctrines are confusing–Christ is clear.

What CS Lewis considers to be two levels of faith seem, to me, more accurately to be two ingredients of faith. The first is belief, which, in his first chapter on faith, Lewis describes as “accepting or regarding as true the doctrines of Christianity.” He later illustrates the role Christian doctrine plays by using this analogy in his chapter “Making and Begetting”: “Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that… Continue reading