Bertrand Russell, ed. Paul Edwards, Why I Am Not a Christian (George Allen & Unwin, 1957).
John Stott, The Contemporary Christian (IVP, 1992).
1. The Hound of Heaven
R. Moffat Gautrey, This Tremendous Lover, an exposition of Francis Thompson’s ‘The Hound of Heaven’ (Epworth, 1932).
Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven (Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1893), p. 9.
Gautrey, This Tremendous Lover, p. 29.
Ibid., p. 30.
Thompson, The Hound of Heaven, p.16.
Ibid., p. 17.
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Geoffrey Bles, 1955; repr. Collins Fontana, 1981), p. 181. ‘Legion’ (meaning a unit of about 6,000 soldiers) was the name the Gadarene demoniac gave himself because he was conscious of being overpowered by a large number of evil spirits. See Mark 5:1–20.
Augustine, Confessions, a new translation by Henry Chadwick (OUP, 1992), Book 2.ii.
Ibid., Book 8.xii.
Ibid., Book 10.xxvii.
Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Part I, The Green Stick (Collins, 1972), p. 125.
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (Collins Fontana, 1969), pp. 32, 41.
See above, n. 7.
Lewis, Surprised by Joy, p. 169.
Ibid., pp. 181–182.
Ibid., pp. 179–180.
Ibid., p. 173.
Ibid., p. 170.
Ibid., pp. 182–183.
2. The claims of jesus
Joachim Jeremias, The Central Message of the New Testament (SCM, 1965), pp. 16–17, 19–20, 21, 30.
Hugh Martin, The Claims of Christ: A Study in His Self-portraiture (SCM, 1955), pp. 42–43.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Geoffrey Bles, 1952; revised edition Fount, 1997), p. 43.
3. The cross of Christ
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (Collins Fontana, 1969), pp. 24–25.
Cicero, Against Verres II.64.165.
Cicero, In Defence of Rabirius V.16.467.
‘Le bon Dieu me pardonnera. C’est son métier.’ Said to have been spoken by Heine on his deathbed, and quoted in James Denney, The Death of Christ (1902; Tyndale Press, 1951), p. 186.
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo i.xxi.
Carnegie Simpson, The Fact of Christ (Hodder & Stoughton, 1900), p. 109.
P. T. Forsyth, The Justification of God (Duckworth, 1916), p. 32.
4. The paradox of our humanness
Douglas Coupland, Life after God (Touchstone, 1994), p. 9.
Ibid., p. 304.
Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800 (1983; Penguin, 1984), pp. 31–32, 37–39, 43, 166, 172.
J. S. Whale, Christian Doctrine (1941; Fontana, 1957), p. 33.
From Mark Twain’s Notebook (1894).
J. S. Whale, op. cit., p. 41.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, scene 2.
Mark Twain, title of ch. 28 of More Tramps Abroad (Chatto & Windus, 1897).
Richard Holloway. Extract from a speech he gave at the Catholic Renewal Conference at Loughborough in April 1978.
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of its Traditional Defenders (Nisbet, 1945), p. vi.
Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person (Constable, 1961), p. 87 and elsewhere.
5. The key to freedom
John Fowles, The Magus (1966; revised edn Triad Panther, 1977), p. 10.
Graham McCann, Woody Allen, New Yorker (Polity, 1990), pp. 43, 84.
Ibid., pp. 43, 83.
Bertrand Russell, ed. Paul Edwards, Why I Am Not a Christian (George Allen & Unwin, 1957), p. 47.
Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship (1902; University Paperbacks, 1976), pp. 10–17.
From ‘I dye alive’ by Robert Southwell, in D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (eds.), The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (Clarendon, 1917), p. 236.
6. The fulfilment of our aspirations
Augustine, Confessions, a new translation by Henry Chadwick (OUP, 1992), Book I.i.
From C. S. Lewis’s sermon ‘The Weight of Glory’, published in Transposition and Other Addresses (Geoffrey Bles, 1949), p. 30.
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (Faber & Faber, 1972), p. 22.
Ibid., p. 66.
Ibid., pp. 227–228.
Ibid., p. 67.
Ibid., p. 70.
Ibid., p. xxi.
Peter L. Berger, Facing up to Modernity (1977; Penguin, 1979), p. 255.
Quoted by Jonathon Porritt and David Winner in The Coming of the Greens (Collins, 1988), pp. 251–252.
A. N. Wilson, Against Religion (Chatto Counterblast No. 19, 1991), pp. 3, 20, 44.
Trevor Beeson, Discretion and Valour (Collins, 1974), p. 24.
From his address on receiving the Templeton Prize in London in May 1983.
David Spangler, The Rebirth of the Sacred (Dell, 1984).
Ibid., pp. 12, 41.
Arnold Toynbee, quoted in The Times on 5 April 1969. See his Experiences (OUP, 1969).
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, originally published under the title From Death-Camp to Existentialism (1959; Washington Square Press, 1963), p. 165.
Ibid., p. 164.
Ibid., p. 154.
Ibid., p. 154.
Ibid., pp. 167, 204.
From the chapter ‘Rebellion in Vacuum’, which was Arthur Koestler’s contribution to the symposium Protest and Discontent, ed. Bernard Crick and William Robson (Penguin, 1970), p. 22.
Emile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897; English translation 1952, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 246.
William Temple, Citizen and Churchman (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941), p. 74.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (George Allen & Unwin, 1967), p. 13.
Desmond Doig, Mother Teresa, Her People and Her Work (Collins, 1976), p. 159.
Graham McCann, Woody Allen, New Yorker (Polity, 1990), p. 22.
Ibid., p. 248.
S. C. Neill, Christian Faith Today (Pelican, 1955), p. 174.
7. The greatest of all invitations
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Library of Classics (Collins, n.d.), pp. 47–48.
In Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Songs (1742).
I can vouch for the truth of this anecdote, because I heard it from the lips of Professor James Stewart of New College, Edinburgh. I am surprised, therefore, that it is not included in Life of the Late John Duncan, written by David Brown and published in 1872 (Edmonston & Douglas, 2nd edn, revised). Nevertheless, David Brown did write of ‘the child-like simplicity of the man’ in prayer (p. 361).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (1937; English translation SCM, 1959), p. xxxiii.
Andrew Boyle, Only the Wind will Listen: Reith of the BBC (BBC, 1972), p. 18.
