Words Worth Noting - October 24, 2024

“Then he [C.S. Lewis] made a remarkable observation that would appear in several of his apologetics books later. The death of the gods into allegorical figures had not happened because of Christianity, for the dissatisfaction with the old gods had been growing since the time of Socrates. Lewis said that ‘monotheism should not be regarded as the rival of polytheism, but rather as its maturity.’”

Harry Lee Poe The Making of C.S. Lewis [re and quoting from The Allegory of Love].