Between different ages there is no impartial judge on earth, for no one stands outside the historical process; and, of course, no one is so completely enslaved to it as those who take our own age to be not one more period but a final and permanent platform from which we can see all other ages objectively. The Christian religion is like the history of the human race: messy, unpredictable, surprising, and lacking “suspicious a priori lucidity”, as Lewis puts it in Miracles: Christianity, faced with