I was recently reflecting on C.S.Lewis’ poem, “Footnote to all Prayers”. The poem explores the futility of language to speak of God and his name. It rightly calls all men idolaters to the degree that we are limited by the images of God we stamp in our minds. Lewis references “Pheidian fancies” as a reminder that the symbols we have in our mind, that come from human construct (whether sculpture or human words etched on parchment), can not describe all that God is. Read the rest of this entry »