CHRISTIAN LIVING
THE RENEWAL OF MAN, by Alexander Miller; MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. by William J. Wolf; DOING THE TRUTH, by James A. Pike; HARDNESS OF HEART, by Edmond Cherbonnier; THE STRANGENESS OF THE CHURCH, by Daniel T. Jenkins. (The Christian Faith Series, Reinhold Niebuhr, consulting editor.) Victor Gollancz, English price 12/6 each. HE last thirty years have seen a great movement toward non-denom-inationa] Church unity. This series of five small books, mainly Protestant in tone and evangelical in appeal, makes a valuable contribution to this trend, by its almost total lack of denominational
rancour, its lucid and practical moralising (we jib at the word-lI wonder why?); and its illumination of the scope and meaning of Christian love. Each writer has a deep, practical concern with human problems. Each explores, in his own way, the holy paradox of Christian living undertaken by weak, ordinary men in the world we know. I personally have found the first and fourth books in the series the most interesting and original. Alexander Miller -writes: "The difference between the Church and the world is not that God rules in the Church and does not rule in the world: the difference is that within the Church it is known under Whose governance we stand." Edmond Cherbonnier goes out boldly to battle with Pelagian and Augustinian dragons on behalf of the inherent goodness of created human nature. It is not possible even to summarise the content of the series. But we have need of such writing, with its emphasis on freedom, moral choice, and its optimism founded on faith in God and chastened by a knowledge of human weakness.
James K.
Baxter
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 12
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275CHRISTIAN LIVING New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 12
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