Religion: Mystery Story

Mystery Story When Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a piece last week under the title "The Great Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife.

Heaven. "We must first...

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