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â A Question of Conscience. By CHARLES Pp. 251, London, Hodder & StoughDAVIS. NOTES A N D COMMENTS standing and not because he has decided that the grass looks greener on the other side of the hill. Indeed, what creates the slight feeling of disappointment may be that this action of Mr David arouses expectations which his very integrity and caution make it impossible for him yet to fulfil. The ecumenically-minded Protestant reads this book with the hope that he will gain some light from it both about how to treat this baffling, ambiguous phenomenon of the modern Roman Catholic Church and about how to promote the cause of reformation in his own Church. All that Mr Davis tells him is that his own interpretation of the Church is substantially correct, which is gratifying but not surprising, and that the Roman Catholic Church in its present form is irreformable, which is surprising coming from him but not particularly gratifying to anyone who has the ecumenical cause at heart. Nothing is more foolish than to criticize a book for not being another book, especially a book written out of such deep experience as this. Mr Davis tells us that
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jul 1, 1968
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