Rebuilding a Lost Faith

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 26, 5 July 1923, Page 46

Rebuilding a Lost Faith

BY AN AMERICAN AGNOSTIC

Second Edition * Price 10/- •, T 1,8 l V °i k of i which a large first edition has been sold the star f a rra< 'T beell tra,,slateli i-to German, is .rt nl! t ”, V 1 :in "ho. aft having entered college to stndj for the Congregational ministry, spent forty years as an Agnostic, and at last found security and peace „ tin. communion of the Catholic Church. P _ The author, in the course of his book, examines and to re , 16 f r nf the ll,m sections of Protestantism to lepiesent the Christianity of the Apostolic age, and sets oyer against them the unbroken continuity of the Sited 1 ’ e ?'“' ing and defending its controlilind rnS ” n<l distinctive practices with masterly 8,1S ’ " that ‘ids One, Holy, Catholic, Apes c Chinch has given me certainty for doubt, order for Xdmv°» S '"' ligH for darkness, and substance for •. “The treatment,” says a reviewer, “is very discursne, and wanders over many wide fields; and is full of side-lights, historical and philosophical and other The course is consecutive and in logical order: belief in God conscience, and the immortality of the soul. Then revelaturn and the Church, Then the Church historically and doctrinal y considered. Then the Church’s relation to the ■sects. J hen the distinctive Catholic doctrines which separate her from the sects; ending in conviction all round and reception into the fold.”