Creed or Chaos? (1940), Vol. 1; Vol. 2
Vol. 1
May 27, 2022
Creed or Chaos: Vol. 1, Essays by Dorothy L. Sayer’s on the Importance of Theology
Words like dogma and theology have for a long time been viewed as “dull” and irrelevant, but in a series of essays written in the late 1930s Dorothy L. Sayers argues quite the opposite: “The Christian faith is the most exciting drama … and the dogma is the drama.” In this week’s episode Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing discuss three of Sayers’s famous essays—”The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” “The Triumph of Easter,” and “The Dogma is the Drama”—compiled in a book titled Creed or Chaos, with an eye toward how they apply to the Church and Christian faith today.
Vol. 2
Jun 10, 2022
Creed or Chaos: Vol. 2, Essays by Dorothy L. Sayer’s on the Creeds, Sin, and Christian Maturity
“It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality, unless they are prepared to take their stand on the fundamentals of Christian theology.” Few Christian authors can cut straight to the heart of our problems like Sayers. In this week’s episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing continue to discuss a series of incredibly relevant essays written by Sayers on “The Over Six Deadly Sins,” “Strong Meat,” and the eponymous “Creed or Chaos.”