Agenda for Anglicans - Innocent Curate
Diocesan Press Service. October 10, 1963 [XIV-12]
AGENDA FOR ANGLICANS, by Dewi Morgan
Morehouse - Barlow, New York, 1963, 167pp.
"What use has God for the Anglican Communion?" In his latest book the Rev. Dewi Morgan does some deep thinking on the present position of this communion and on its future.
Ecumenical relations, the administration of missions and the organization of the Communion itself are examined in light of the Gospel and the concrete everyday situations to which the answers must be relevant. No pat answers are put forth, but an honest attempt is made to state these problems in enough detail that people can begin to think constructively about them.
The picture of the Anglican Communion which Mr. Morgan gives the reader is one which is, according to Bishop Bayne's preface, "unfinished - full of possibilities, of great hopes, of glorious promise of truth and grace - yet equally something which must continually be fought for. It is never ours to hold and treasure; it points continually beyond itself to something greater. " MG
THE INNOCENT CURATE, a novel by Paris Leary
Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1963, 203 pp.
A little slow in the beginning, this delightful novel moves right into the current pattern of taking pokes at the institutional church of today. Objects of the story's punch is the Episcopal Church. Treatment of the topic is in much the same vein as the current film, "Heaven's Above", which deals with the Church of England.
All sorts of over-stated characters move through the story, adding to its improbable fun. It is enjoyable and relaxing reading. JCC