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Insight Into St. Paul's Hopes For His Church
Having a dearly defined task, the Biblical exegete aims at understanding a text or series of texts utilising the findings of textual critics. Having found the "best" text he......
Brilliant Story Of An Unlikely Friendship
How many miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston (Hamish Ilamilton 12.10) Jennifer Johnston's third novel brilliantly describes the growing friendship between two young men of......
Advice On Facing Trials
A Retreat for Lay People by Ronald Knox (Sliced & Ward £1.35) Mgr Knox, in A Retreat for Lay People, goes to no end of trouble trying to keep his retreatants from being hogged......
The Importance Of Being Frank
Frank Longford is nothing if not full-frontally "frank" in this highly engaging third volume of autobiographical writing. I found it wholly absorbing, a more thorough......
Fundamental Problems In The Study Of Religion
The person who studies religion sociologically — that is to say as part of human culture — faces three fundamental problems. There is first the issue of what "religion" is and......
Billy Graham The
SUPER-SALESMAN The Billy Graham Religion by Joe E. Barnhart (Mowbrays £2.75) Billy Graham's field manager said of him when he was a Fuller Brush salesman in 1936: "Graham......
Fight Against Segregation
One-Man Research: Reminiscences of a Catholic Sociologist by Joseph H. hater (John Wiley & Sons £5.95) Dr Fichter is a Catholic priest and a sociologist working in the southern......
A Writer In Love With The Ludicrous
1 he Tyrone-born Brian O'Nolan. alias Flann O'Brien of "At Swim-Two-Birds" fame, alias Myles na Gopaleen whose Irish Times column was rated by James Thurber as "the funniest......
Light On Obscure Texts
Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament by F. F. Bruce (Hodder and Stoughton £1.60) Recently one ot the Sunday colour supplements printed an article on the......