Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Walter Hooper
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how he reached the point where he accepted Idealism and admitted ‘that the whole universe was, in the last resort, mental; that our logic was participation in a cosmic Logos’.

      An attempt to restore scholasticism began in Rome about 1830. The most important of several theologians who wanted to extend this ‘neo-Scholasticism’ to the universal Church was Pope Leo XIII; in his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879), he recommended that scholasticism be the only philosophy and theology used in Catholic seminaries. The Pope enjoined the study of St Thomas Aquinas on all theology students as a clear, systematic philosophy capable of defending Christian tradition from contemporary attack.

      Lewis came to believe that virtuous heretics or pagans could be saved through Christ. ‘I think that every prayer which is sincerely made even to a false god or to a very imperfectly conceived true God,’ he wrote to Mrs Ashton on 8 November 1952, ‘is accepted by the true God and that Christ saves many who do not think they know Him’ (WHL, p, 428). He provided an illustration of this in The Last Battle (1956), ch. 15. On meeting Asian in the heavenly Narnia, Emeth the Calormene explains that he had been seeking Tash all his life. ‘Beloved,’ said Asian, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.’