Transcending reason …

… C.S. Lewis Was a Modern Man Who Breathed Medieval Air... | Christianity Today. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In Lewis, one finds a transcendent yet intimate morality that does not change from age to age or culture to culture. Baxter, showing keen insight into Lewis’s medieval ethical vision, writes that modernity “thinks of the apex of virtue as being nice,” whereas “ancient languages and primitive religions treat holiness as … a frightening and terrifying power that goes far beyond mere goodness.”