If Theology is Poetry, it is not very good poetry.
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C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 118.

It must also be remembered that only a minority of the religions of the world have a theology. There was no systematic series of statements which the Greeks agree in believing about Zeus.
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C. S. Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 116-17.

The truth is that the resemblances [between pagan myths and Christianity] tell nothing either for or against the truth of Christian Theology. If you start from the assumption that the Theology is false, the resemblances are quite consistent with that assumption. One would expect creatures of the same sort, faced with the same universe, to [...]

Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anticlimax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman. The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavor. […] In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. The Enemy [...]

If I never fled from His presence, then I should suspect those moments when I seemed to delight in it of begin wish-fulfillment dreams. That, by the way, explains the feebleness of all those watered versions of Christianity which leave out all the darker elements and try to establish a religion of pure consolation. No [...]

It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and “big with God” will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all [...]