Creed or Chaos

             Dorothy L. Sayers looks deeply into the controversial topic of the church's downfall including how and why dogma plays a vital role in ones distrust in the spiritual strength of Christianity. "Creed or Chaos" focuses on dogma as such a doctrine of faith proclaimed by the church and it's misinterpretation as an ideology. In "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged is The Official Creed of Christendom," Sayers specifically references the assurance of the demise of the church as a result of the preacher's insistence upon doctrine or "dull dogma." Although, she insists that it is in fact the opposite in that the negation of the importance of dogma is responsible for the downfall.
             In the same article Sayers battles the deliberation of God and Jesus being both one in the same. It is clear that the notion of the God Jesus resurrection from the dead is something difficult to comprehend. However, if God did rise from the dead, then man rose as well because they were essentially one and the same person. What is the individual to think of this? The compelling story of God's resurrection is one that is preached and told repeatedly and sincerely in the church. Also, according to the church, God created us perfectly free to disbelieve in him as much as one should choose. All together the reason for the death of Jesus was completely a rebottle of his honesty by the Jew's from their disbelief.
             There is in fact a doctrine that holds all the remarkable stories of the God Jesus as a man and as the immortal being that rose from the dead. It was essentially up to the church to portray these documentations in such a way that would compel the public to believe and to remain faithful. However is was apparently the church's fault for not compelling the individual in such a way that dogma would be much more than solely an "ideology." This is the drama. Sayers says, "that is...

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