Down Through the Ages

Chuck Colson's column on C.S. Lewis has some excellent thoughts in it, a few of which I'll be commenting on today. The first is the following:

Lewis once wrote than any new book “has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages.” Because he himself was steeped in that “great body of Christian thought,” he quickly discerned trends that ran counter to it.

If we would simply take this bit of advice, we'd avoid a significant amount of error that presently exists in the church.