Big brain, small heart
Sir: In his diary of 4 January (which only reached these parts recently) A.N. Wilson is still expressing his heretical views, dis- missing two millennia of the Church as no more than an aberration. Something, I sup- pose, can be said for publishing provocative material, but if the response naturally pro- voked is to be denied expression, your readers are never presented with a stimu- lating debate, only the same dreary old diet of arid intellectualism.
As A.N. Wilson drew our attention to the fact that he was writing shortly after the Feast of Circumcision, may I point out that we are now in the season of Epiphany, when we are reminded that the truths of God are only revealed to the humble and meek: 'Kings shall fall down before him', as the old hymn puts it. Only a certain kind of knowledge can be subjected to analytical study; most is experiential and is received by faith. It is certainly not a sign of intelli- gence to expect to come to a sensible con- clusion after using the wrong method of approach. All that can be said of your cor- respondent is that his brain seems large only when compared with his heart, which is (alas) far too small. C.S. Lewis would surely have described him as one of those clever people who love to say they have seen through everything, and so end up see- ing nothing at all. Is there really no room in your magazine for the views of those who still do see something in our ancient faith, which has produced all that is good in our national character?
R.A. Massie-Blomfield
Cavina School, P 0 Box 43090, Nairobi
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