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Published last week was a new book on the Holy Ghost that will interest many a man in the pew as well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
Irrational Individualism. The commonest mistake about the Holy Ghost, writes Canon Dewar, is to say "it" instead of "He." The gift of the Holy Spirit is "not the bestowal of a thing but the action of a person." The classic description of the Holy Spirit appears in the Gospel of John, where Jesus is quoted as promising to send the disciples "the Paraclete"-a Greek word variously translated as "comforter," "advocate," or "counselor"-to remind them of Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon...
...Canon Dewar's own original interpretation of the working of the Holy Spirit is that His field of operation is the unconscious, where He can make Himself felt in terms of what the parapsychologists call "psi phenomena"-clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.-as well as in everyday life, the source of what the Christian calls his "conscience." Nor, in Canon Dewar's thinking, is the Holy Spirit limited to Christians...
...these pronouncements have emanated has been an armchair in a professor's home; and, further, that the evaluation has rested almost wholly on the language of the play. It is perfectly true that, as poetry. Antony and Cleopatra is masterly--in fact, unsurpassed by any other work in the canon; but, as dramaturgy, it is a failure, albeit an instructive and fascinating one. Poorly constructed, it suffers from what those in the trade call "second-act slump...
...exhorted his young listeners to disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church of Switzerland's St. Francois Cathedral and celebrated Communion together. Said one German student: "This is the most tremendous thing of the entire assembly. This is more important than words...