Who was Dorothy L. Sayers?
Dorothy Sayers (1893 - 1957): Staging the “drama of the dogma” to wake the “frozen chosen.” One of the deepest-thinking Christians of her day, when Sayers wasn’t shocking Oxford’s Old-Boy guild with disquisitions on Dante’s sex life, she was writing bestselling mystery novels, books of lay theology, and religious plays. Sayers was a passionate intellectual, a no-nonsense public communicator, and an eccentric, even bombastic personality. Through her playssome performed in England’s grandest cathedrals and others, most famously the Christmas play The Man Born to be King, on BBC radioshe portrayed the passionate rightness of orthodox Christianity for many who had abandoned the presumptive churchianity of England’s religious establishment. Believing that those who slept through church had no idea what dynamite the Gospel really was, she tried to get people to see, as she said, that “the dogma is the drama.”
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