The Devil and Leszek Kolakowski

“Does the doctrine of original sin present a truth accessible to natural reason unaided by revelation, or a truth known from revelation alone?”

Though it might sound strange in these pages, that, in his chosen idiom, is the question we should have to put to Leszek Kolakowski. His recent article, “Can the Devil be saved?” (Encounter, Fall 1974), deserves serious notice. Kolakowski, a Polish philosopher currently living as an exile, raises a question by ...