2020-07-05T12:22:26Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/god-in-the-docktag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/716/28572020-07-05T12:22:26ZSursumCorda<p>From my own experience, I can at least say that it is much better to read C. S. Lewis than a modern book about Lewis. :)</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/716/28562020-07-04T02:52:44ZKathy Lewis<p>I'm intrigued by his suggestion that it's not only better, but easier, to read Plato rather than a modern book about Plato. I've never tried to read Plato, but I tried to read Aristotle and my reaction was that I might as well have been reading it in the original Greek for all the sense it made to me.</p>