While T.S. Eliot is has a reputation as a Christian poet and certainly uses oodles of Biblical imagery, I don’t think Christians should read him as a Christian poet. First an exposition of Eliot’s style: His post-conversion poems are given a sacred quality by his use of a metaphysical flavor – he uses sensory images to convey a…
God is outside of time, yet active in it, the Creator of the universe, and the origin of good. Moreover, he is kind, merciful, and loving. Instead of taking a leap of faith and accepting the power of God’s love, Catholicism takes a faltering step onto the bridge of man-made traditions. By instituting an atonement sacrifice once…