Even though I haven’t had time to do half the reading I wanted to do, Phil Ryken at the Reformation21 blog has suddenly made me thisty for another journey through CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity. Here is the taste:
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
R. Capon: God is the Ultimate Materialist.
Milbank and Ward criticize Marx, not for his materialism, but because he was insufficiently materialist. In the spirit of Lewis they note that when all there is is matter, there’s not even that, and that it’s God’s materially mediated communion with his creation that gives matter its full dignity.