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BOOKS Can [/Fe Then Believ:e.e, by Charles Gore. Ne~u York: Charles 8cribner's Sons. Sz.oo. T HE present volume by the former bishop of Oxford Is a summary of his three well-known...
...T HE distinction between Roundhead and Cavalier is one that does not run, despite the accidents of history, along political or even religious lines...
...Blank verse," says the preface, "is so childishly easy and expeditious (hence, by the way, Shakespeare's copious output) that by adopting it I was enabled to do within the week what would have cost me a month in prose...
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...CHRISTMAS GIFTS DIRECT FROM IRELAND The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded, is a blank-verse treatment of the early pugilistic novel, Cashel Byron's Profession, written in a week's time in order to pro- tect the author's copyright...
...Every one of the famous "remon- strances" and "bills of fight" is shown to have featured as its leading artide a demand for more hangings, quarterings and parboilings of Papists, spectacles at which the godly Puri- tan, denied the cock-fighting and bear-baiting of malignant Cavaliers, might llck his lips unblamed...
...The result is quite delicious, and should be read in connection with the still more delectable preface to the novel itself, in which Shaw discovered with amazement that men and women have actually been made "by their own fancies in the image of the imaginary creatures of his youthful fictions, only much stupider...
...The author concerns himself with three main characters: Lancelot, Guinevere, and Galahad...
...Charles, King of England, by John Drinkwater...
...Six of the seven chapters represent the White Lectures given in St...
...In the same manner, Mr...
...If we believe in God it is surely impossible not M O N W E A L December 22, i926 to read back into God this quality of freedom in such higher sense as would leave man His image and not His superior...
...God's purpose in creation is wholly good, but the free creatures which He made rebelled against Him...
...Only enough of the life of Galahad "to explain his reputation" is given--but it is explained successfully, after a John Erskinesque fashion...
...Doubtless Saint Paul laid down the lines of the Church's theology, but did he invent his teaching in regard to Christ as the object of worship ? No, the Church accepted it bemuse it is at least implicitly taught by Mark and Luke, who show every sign of being faithful recorders...
...T HE present volume by the former bishop of Oxford Is a summary of his three well-known books--Belief in God, Belief in Christ, and The Holy Spirit and the Church~ written after considering various criticisms, and supplemented with a number of lengthy notes...
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...This is the New Testament's thought of God, leaving out for a moment its implicit recognition of God as Trinity...
...Goremare not to be looked on as historic individuals but as "Everyman...
...Such articles of the Creed as the miraculous birth and corporal resurrection of Our Lord, "events in recent years solidly witnessed to," have a different claim to be literally accepted than the words concerning "the right hand of God" and the "descent into Hades...
...If Paul invented it, does it come from the pagan mysteries ? In answering these ques- t.ions the author notes that Luke, in the early parts of the Acts and in his Gospel, does not show Saint Paul's developed theology of the Incarnation...
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...Rather than live with them we feel we would have died with Charles, and it is probably to make us feel that way that Mr...
...No real attempt to get behind the fa~;ade of cynical opportunism which Charles chose as his armor against fate is attempted until we have reached page 219 (in a volume of only 3oo) which begins with the words: "And now we have to take some measure of the man for whom so much had been suffered, and of whom so much was hoped...
...Unless one's mind is blocked by the "assumption that God, who does every-thing in general, can do nothing in particular"--a brilliant characterization of rationalistic prejudices, be it said--there is overwhelming evidence for the fact that God revealed Him-self through the Jews and finally and universally in the Son of Man...
...But nearly everyone is aware of and can recognize the characteristics of the two states of mind...
...Religious intolerance is restored to the place from which modern constitutional historians have shown a tendency, nat-ural enough, to depose it...
...Luke, however, does represent the Twelve as the rulers of the Chris- tian community and as requiting baptism and the laying on of hands...
...Drinkwater has drawn the bulk of his facts and also the model whom he has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to follow in his style...
...Oates's doings which can be found in any edition of the Dictionary of National Biography...
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...certainly, were we a Catholic, with the king's army, if only because the king gave us a run for our lives-- anywhere and everywhere in short, except with the brutal, canting and lawless men who called Cromwell their chief...
...He reminds us that from the time the king was sold to his enemies by the Scottish covenanters up to the very eve of his death, he was beseiged by emissaries from two and sometimes three parties, each representing themselves to be spokesmen for the real will of the nation...
...Also, the Gospels frequently show Christ's conception of His disciples as "the old Israel reformed on a new basis," under the stewardship of carefully selected Apostles...
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...Ersldne explains the reputations of the other characters with a keenness and delicacy of perception of the subtle side of thdr natures that is truly remarkable...
...RY wisely, in his first chapter, John Ersldne states that purposely leaves out all references to the Grail, Joseph of Arimathea its keeper, the Round Table, and Excalibur...
...One very good proof that the contrast can survive and make loyalties, even historical ones, a passionate and intimate affair, is the appearance of such a book as Charles Wheeler Coit's narrative of the royal martyr, King Charles I. Mr...
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...their iniquitous "Purge," by which the Commons were reduced to a rump of sixty members, all pledged to the king's death...
...Gore faces the question by declaring that the Church must not interfere with science as, according to him, she has frequently attempted to do...
...To expect a man in his position to have refused to grasp at any chance of an escape to where negotiations would have had some meaning, is expecting a great deal from human nature, even royal human nature...
...To treat the contrast as its importance deserves would take a book of a good many pages...
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...their condonation of Scottish rebellion (accompanied with requests for foreign help) while the Irish rising was put in the forefront of Charles's offend- ings...
...As to the Eucharistic "breaking of bread," its sacramental character presupposes in Paul the idea of the Church...
...Instead, he has chosen long historical digressions from material available on the shelves of any public library...
...The doctrine was proclaimed, he continues, not as a series of conclusions from mere reason, but as the authori- tative word of God...
...Its ascription to Christ is supported by Mark and Matthew, and the combined testimonies "render it historically certain that Our Lord deliberately organized His disciples as the 'Church' and bound them together in obedi- ence to the Twelve as their appointed rulers and by sacra-ments of His foundation...
...Can the modern world believe in this or, indeed, in any authoritative revelation ? In answering affirmatively the author refers to science as dependent on man's instinctive faith in the regularity and order of nature...
...Charles the First, by Charles Hlheeler Colt...
...Coit asks "us that we should not prejudge the case for king against commons in the light of modern democracy...
...The venerable Anglican theologian presents an eloquent and well-knit appeal in favor of the claims of historic Christian-ity...
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...Charles, King of England, attempts a serious and detailed study of one of the most enigmatic figures in the long line that followed Banquo's ghost past the witch-kettle at Birnan Wood...
...If our minds are open to the idea of Redemption we shall find these narratives con- vindng...
...The possibility of miracles cannot be denied by sound prin- dples of historical criticism any more than by science, unless the former is to exceed its legitimate boundaries...
...The opportunity that lay to Mr...
...Paul's Cathedral in London in the Lent of I926, and the seventh is an essay on the Relations of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy...
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...Against this background of spite and brutality, the pathetic figure of the "White King" is projected for us with all the conviction of an avowed Royalist and high-church partisan: his chastity in a dissolute court, his love of manly exercises, the innocent ardor of his wooing in Spain, his devotion to wife and children, his unswerving piety, his desire for a re-union of the two separated branches of the old church of Anselm and Iona which could produce the really remarkable letter to the Pope quoted in the appendix on page 392...
...As in "Helen" there is much dialogue, shrewd observations and philosophizing...
...Without caring to define it, we may reason-ably ask what bond of honor or warranty could inhere in a contract entered into between parties, one of whom was a prisoner, guarded and spied upon at every moment of his life, and marked for death if his answers were found unsatisfactory...
...It is in the light of this eternal destiny "that men are to labor here and now for the kingdom of God, assured of the ulti- mate fulfilment of the divine purpose, of which they have received the foretaste especially in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
...The author of a drama that was successful largely through the innovation of an Englishman busying himself with American domestic history, he has used the attention it earned him to justify adventure in fields for which writing for the theatre is less than no education...
...bow to m~.reome feat ills in the natural way...
...Enthusiasm, personal devotion, a preference for men over measures, a refusal to be impressed by the apparatus of the law or to seek its sanc- tions where personal ends are in question, a certain disorder- liness in his best actions and a certain generosity in his worst, still distinguish the Cavalier, though thirty decades have passed since his love-locks were shorn and his spurs went to rust...
...Why should not his universal instinctive religiousness be also a "valid ground of practical certainty...
...The irate husband poisons his rival Adolphus...
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...How could these conditions have prevailed apart from Christ's commands...
...There are no nobler periods in the sustained oratorical form than Hyde's, but it is disconcerting the unpleasant "melancholic delicacy" of the original into a ---THE IRISH INDUSTRIES DEPOT, Inc.--" frankly comedic version of the cuckolded husband...
...Does the idea of a visible Church, "continuous with the old and now apostate Israel," so dearly taught by Saint Paul and the Acts, go back to Christ...
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...Such er/ti- eism has no business dictating what can or cannot occur, but should consider with an open mind the evidence as to what did...
...The Christian hope, he observes, is based on certain convictions about God, on emphatic belief in His personality and on the realization of His immanence, though this is re-garded as secondary to His transcendence...
...with that visionary republican born out of time, Sir Harry Vane, who washed his hands of the whole affair when he saw decency set at naught and perished later with the shadow of Massachusetts forests and lakes in his puzzled brain...
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...John Drinkwater is an instance of the dangers that beset a reputation fortuitously acquired...
...Certain spedal difficulties in regard to biblical cosmogony are then dealt with and the fact that we still speak of the sun rising and setting is emphasized in a manner reminiscent of Leo XIII's remarks on the same subject...
...Gore describes this general doc-trine as at once humbling and glorious to man, mysterious yet luminous in practice, ridding man of foolish optimism and of despair...
...Compass and measure, an intense respect for law, even to the extent of seeking legal countenance for very law- less deeds, balance and foresight, a great outward decorum, a coldness to undue ardors--all the virtues associated with the stability of worldly enterprises, continue to be characteristics of the Roundhead 3o0 years after the name was given him to mark a political and social fissure...
...Besides being religious, large portions of mankind have believed themselves to be recipients of revela- tions...
...BOOKS Can [/Fe Then Believ:e.e, by Charles Gore...
...The fact creates a strong pre- sumption as to his exact portrayal of primitive doctrine...
...One day God's judgment of weal or woe to all free and responsible spirits will be revealed...
...As to man's origin, Genesis aims to teach that God created all things and that sin, not matter, is the source of evil, but Adam and Eve--and here the Catho- lic apologist must part company with Dr...
...Drinkwater's hand for etching in a portrait from tradition and anecdote is left almost untouched...
...His ironical rapier is wielded with consummate skill, and cuts in a much finer fashion than in his first novel...
...It may be asserted at once that the result is disappointing...
...In a very beautiful passage, Dr...
...Thus he does not tread on anybody's toes and does not lay h;m~lf open to the charge of being sacrilegious...
...and with three minor ones: Arthur, Elaine, and Elaine the White...
...But underneath all the light talk there is a deep philosophy, which is, in spite of the age of the story, essentially modern...
...Sdence, moreover, should recognize man's mental and moral distinction from the lower animals and its consequent in-ability to connect him with them, or to say how man's unique characteristics emerged from the brute...
...God in the person o[ HIS Son became Man for their redemption, and was thus the fountain-head of a new humanity...
...The point is well made against the modernists' charge of inconsistency...
...Press Cuttings, described as a topical sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the daily papers during the women's war in x9o9, satirizes not only the militant feminists, but also the still more ridiculously militant anti-feminists...
...It implies moreover a far more prac-tical aim from that of the philosophers...
...Lord Clarendon seems to have been the source from which Mr...
...The old adage that "practice makes perfect" applies perfectly to John Erskine, as this book, although it is of the same type as The Private Life of Helen of Troy, is vastly superior...
...The charge of guile and shiftiness so profusely brought against Charles by historians of the school of Macaulay and Green is faced fairly by Mr...
...They appealed for evidence to miracles, prophecies, and the conscience of mankind...
...The Glimpse of Reality (a tragedietta) The Fascinating Foundling ("a disgrace to the author") and the Music Cure ("a piece of utter nonsense") are similar grotesqueries, EgNSST BRENNECKE, JR...
...Galalmd: Enough of His Life to Explain His Reputation, by John Erskine...
...Among the revelations the Judaeo-Christian is of unique continuity and has a unique culmination...
...This book is more "dated," in the sense of time, than "Helen," as the story is so much nearer our own times and characters necessarily do things that class them in a certain period...
...Colt's fine history was written...
...In regard to saerifidal worship as well as to the law of conduct, Christ came, not to destroy, but to fulfil...
...and also that he was under a restraint that grew closer and closer even to the point of danger from assassination...
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...It is temperamental and deeply rooted in the antlnomies of human nature...
...He has edited an "outline" on English literature that was competent rather than stimulating, and now in his quaintly named Mr...
...The testimony of an eminent rationalist, Eduard Meyer, is dted as expressing disgust with the prejudiced character of much rationalist criticism, and as emphasizing the trustworthi- ness and anthentieity of Mark, Luke, the Acts, and most of the Pauline Epistles...
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...Passion, Poison and Petrifaction, or The Fatal Gazogene, is a brief tragedy for barns and booths...
...The story of Galahad adapts itself to the Erskine style more perfectly than does the story of "Hden," because it has more action in it and consequently, moves at a swifter pace...
...It confines itself with commendable rigor to its declared object, the justification of its hero both as king and Christian...
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...As one glaring instance, the behavior, public and private, of Charles during the Popish Plot hoax of I678, is hardly mentioned, but we have a summary of Dr...
...Sdence, on the other hand, has no right to deny the possibility of miracles whleh, as is effectively pointed out, are closely connected with the fact of free will in man...
...Yet Saint Paul or the other first Christian teachers were far from demanding a blind faith...
...Personally, using what light modem democracy has left us, we feel that, were the issue set before us today we might well find ourselves with old Sir Harry Verney ("I have eaten the king's bread all my life and will not desert him in his need")mwith John Hampden, who had the luck to perish on Chalgrove Field...
...Colt's is a very good history...
...The last named, though not explidfly mentioning the virginal conception of Christ, give us the rest of the Apostles' Creed and anticipate the clauses of the Nicene...
...Compulsion is very much in the air just now...
...their passage of a bill of attainder against Lord Stratford, in defiance of the Constitution and by the vote of a single chamber...
...It throws a merciless light on the aims and practices of the sectaries who brought him to ruin and death...
Vol. 5 • December 1926 • No. 7
