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Objections to Christian Belief is a brand-new volume of theological essays -written not, as the title suggests, by ardent atheists but by four devout Anglicans, three of them priests. They are among the dozen or so English academic divines known as the Cambridge Theologians, who today are producing some of the world's most provocative and searching studies of religious issues...
Whys & Hows. These are laymen's questions, and they provoked a layman's answer from Clive Staples Lewis, the devout, witty Oxbridge don who died last November at the age of 64. In his newly published Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Harcourt, Brace & World; $3.50), Anglican Lewis discusses the hows and whys of prayer in a dialogue with a fictional friend...
Giovanni grew up in a devout home "where in every room an emaciated man hung dying for our sake." He automatically accepted ordination as a priest (the novel never makes clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of a veiled married woman yearning for a sexual love that her husband cannot supply. As the woman's words and fragrant breath filter through the grille of the confessional, Giovanni is strangely excited. "I did not yearn to rest again in the safety of God's embrace...
Roger Micheldene is a plump package of just about everything Americans find detestable in a U-type Englishman. He is expensively accented (Oxford), twice married, with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely...
...qualifications are that he is personally close to Nehru and that he has almost no political enemies. Bland and self-effacing, he is almost the center of gravity of the Congress Party, is thus an ideal compromise between the party's left and right wings. Shastri is a devout believer in nonalignment, but thinks that India must also forge strong ties to the Western democracies. Though committed to socialism, he is far less doctrinaire than India's stricken leader, says: "We must relieve the misery of the people and raise their economic condition. I don't believe...