17 APRIL 1947, Page 17

RELIGIOUS DOGMA

SIR,--Canon Marcus Knight's interesting review of Miss Dorothy Sayers's Creed or Chaos? is the first attempt that I have seen to face what is perhaps the most pressing dilemma of our day in

the religious sphere. He is quite right in pointing out that what dissuades many doubtful souls from taking part in the work of the churches is the incredibility of much dogma ; and yet the chosen prophets of Christianity in our time—Miss Sayers, Mr. T. S. Eliot, Mr. C. S. Lewis—all advocate stronger doses of dogmatic teaching. What is the solution? I do not pretend to know, but I do feel that it is foolishly blind to pretend that this problem does not exist.— Yours faithfully,