"When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being much too like the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics." -- C.S. Lewis from his The Allegory of Love, ch. 7, section 3. Also found in A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis, p. 128-29, edited by Clyde S. Kilby.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Differences between Protestants and Catholics Likened Unto Those Between Plato and Aristotle
"When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being much too like the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics." -- C.S. Lewis from his The Allegory of Love, ch. 7, section 3. Also found in A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis, p. 128-29, edited by Clyde S. Kilby.
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