has always been held by Christendom; and it has the support of reason.”2 There was nothing for it: though intolerable to our sensibilities, the doctrine was true, and we must somehow cope with it. Not everyone in history has been prepared to follow Lewis and “Christendom,” and throughout the years a number of people have continued to search for an exit from a universe that holds such a terrifying possibility. Some have conducted this search with immense erudition and scholarship. But it seems to