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Title: Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe) by Dorothy L. Sayers ISBN: 0-918477-31-X Publisher: Sophia Inst Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5

Rating: 5
Summary: From the pen that wrote life into Peter Wimsey.
Comment: What a treat to find this book to enjoy right along with Sayers' fiction. While Sayers was not Roman Catholic, there's not a thing here a Catholic could complain about. In fact, it made clear for me some of the recent teaching of John Paul II, and this from a book written at the beginning of World War II. I read the first several chapters with great enjoyment, savoing Sayers' beautiful use of the language, and finding myself lifted in prayer. Then the last two chapters, I found myself reading with a growing conviction that I need to retool some of my thinking. Warning: this book may shock some who think capitalism is unadulteratedly Christian!

Rating: 4
Summary: Don't Miss Dorothy L. Sayers
Comment: If I have a gripe about this book, it's that the cover picture and blurb would be more at home on a tabloid at the checkstand. There's an earlier version of this book with a somewhat better cover. For that matter, these essays are drawn from two collections published in Sayer's day, Unpopular Opinions and another one I forgot. The best essays reappeared some time back in a collection called Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World (I wonder why that title didn't sell?!), and then again in a series by MacMillian called The Whimsical Christian (catch the play on the name of her detective, Lord Peter Wimsey).

However you have to get them, try to read the best of these essays, "The Dogma is the Drama" and "And Telling You a Story" among them. The first one relates to her experiences while writing The Man Born to Be King, the first radio drama of the life of Jesus for the BBC. Long before Jesus Christ Superstar and the many movies tackling the subject, she was at the front lines of critical crossfire for updating the gospels to everyday Cockney England (the sort of updating that was common in the Middle Ages in Mystery plays). The second essay tells how she fell under the spell of another British writer, Charles W.S.Williams, and was so inspired by his writings on Dante that she taught herself Italian and translated the three volumes of The Divine Comedy (the third volume, Paradise, being completed by her student, Barbara Reynolds). Other essays touch on her trials as a mystery writer and playright, and the zillion other things she did (that no one seems to know about). Fans of her sleuth, Lord Peter, may enjoy tracking down these witty essays by the divine Dorothy L.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Quality Read
Comment: This short work is well worth the time of any Christian. What exactly is our claim? Has the church complacently allowed a post-modern relativism to separate us from the great doctrines of the creeds? Why is modern Christianity so diverse and perverse? These are the critical questions Sayers attempts to answer. Her uncompromising passion for objective truth is refreshing and she conveys that righteous passion with eloquence. Again, this short work is well worth the time. The only caveat I will make to my enthusiastic approval of her book is it seems to end after the fourth chapter. Chapters five through seven are dedicated to things outside the primary concern of the work, embodied in the first four chapters. While the later are of some value as well, the first four chapters are the heart of the work and they are what I enthusiastically praise.

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