Dorothy L. Sayers

History & Biography

“Williams never forgot that every age is modern to itself, and that this fact, or illusion, links it with our own. Thus to all men in all ages he has the same direct approach; the same readiness to accept their behaviour as human (and not 'strange' or 'quaint'); the same charity, to which irony gives a certain wholesome and astringent edge. This freedom of judgment is not to be obtained except from the viewpoint of a theology which postulates an absolute truth, and which sees in the material facts of history the symbol and expression of that truth.”