RELIGION

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 5

RELIGION

MYSTERY AND GLORY.

Dr. Albert Baker, co-editor with Archbishop Temple of the series of Lett books which he planned, says in fin introduction that the subject of Dr. Charles W. Lowry’s The Trinity and Christian Devotion (Eyre and SpottisPoode. 144 pp.) was suggested to him by the Archbishop Temple himself: In his introduction to the first vohime B senes—the Master of Balliol’s book he Two Moralities”—his Grace said here is a danger that religious deand intellectual enterprise should art; no study could more fitly find e in a series designed to meet that ifanger than this one of the doctrine of fee Trinity and Christian Devotion. William Temple was one of the leaders tld Christianity. It was no accident, that two of the writers in this were not members of the Anglilurch. And when he went to Canr he said that if the series [which I began at York] was to be conits net must be cast very widely, a special satisfaction to him to find American Episcopal Church a known personally to himself, published work was of outstandellectual distinction. . . . pr. Lowry himself, approaching the object of a doctrine “which is at once we ultimate mystery and the supreme t’ory of the. Christian Faith,” describes » as one which, more strongly than Bny other, can “draw the attention of teen and women in this troubled generation to the only source of inward renewal, clarity, and beatitude.” IRE BEATITUDES. Mr John Gordon Jameson’s study of we Beatitudes, The Way of Happiness Bodge and Co. 96 pp.), differs from teny such studies in grappling closely *ith the problems of international tonduct and relations, and particularly wose of peace and war. He is led, as & any will expect, to denounce “unmitigated national sovereignty” and to mid in the Charter, which affirms and tets on “the principle of the sovereign Quality of all its members,” and in veto provision of the security •rticles, a “radical futility.” cjvitas dei. Saint Augustine’s The City of God tfe Civitate Dei] has been issued in Everyman’s Library (J. M. Dent and Jons Ltd. 2 vols. 371 and 444 pp.). Jne translation is John Healey’s (1610). thoroughly revised by Mr R. V. G. * o as ker, who has included his own Election of Vives’ commentaries. Sir r rn est Baiker contributes a long and evaluable introduction to a work *h!ch, of extraordinary significance in history of political' ideas and of Philosophical theology, has not in a form so complete and correct previously available to students.