Well blow me down with a feather duster. After not hearing Lewis' Trilemma (the "lunatic, liar or Lord" argument) for years, I hear it twice in a fortnight. I couple of weeks ago I told you how I heard it from the pulpit in my own church. Fair enough, our rector is a busy working pastor and doesn't have time to think through the fine points of every sermon. Then last Thursday a good friend graduated from the Queensland Theological College and I went along to clap as he got his hard-earned piece of paper. There it was again, popping up its three ugly heads at the close of Douglas O'Donnell's guest speech. I hope the theological graduates were shaking their heads at the faux pas . It slightly spoiled what was otherwise an intriguing address. O'Donnell's subject was the Sermon on the Mount, and his point was that the central theme of the sermon is Jesus' authority. In support of this idea he cited four pieces of evidence. The first
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson