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William Alva Gifford has spent his past 15 summers playing golf and writing a book. At each summer's end he has come back to Montreal's Cooperating Theological Colleges (affiliated with McGill University), where for 30 years he has taught the history of religion. This year he can show the results of his 15-summers' labor: a 600-page volume, The Story of the Faith (Macmillan; $5). Published this month, it was sure to bring Professor Gifford many a letter of praise and protest...
...Gifford's views are those of a forthright "modernist" to whom orthodoxy is merely another word for fossilization. He sees all theology as in constant need of revision and reconstruction in the light of religious experience rather than patristic authority. Dogmatists will find plenty in Dr. Gifford's pages to make them jump. The book's final chapter is an eloquent statement of the position of Protestant liberals. Excerpts...
...some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang out of meetings. Franklin Roosevelt had a whole school of brain-trusters, advisers, special assistants and above all, Harry Hopkins...
George H. Gifford...
Nathan H. Gifford...