"The dogma is the drama"

I had no idea Dorothy Sayers' wonderful article The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" was online. I read it years ago, and it was a really bracing reminder that when we talk about the faith, we're not just discussing abstract concepts; we're talking about an actual Savior, who actually lived at a defined place and time, and actually "was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried."

Now, we may call that doctrine exhilarating or we may call it devastating; we may call it revelation or we may call it rubbish; but if we call it dull, then words have no mean ing at all. That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God and find Him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News; those who did hear it for the first time actually called it News, and good news at that; though we are apt to forget that the word Gospel ever meant anything so Sensational.

Sometimes, we all need to be reminded of that. A grateful A/T to One Bread, One Body.