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What's Wrong with the Church?
Has the Church of England become the National Society for the Preservation of the Past? Is it dying on its feet?
Historically - and often by chance - the Church has been too closely identified with the State and too prone to cling to an organization which is almost medieval in conception. Professionalism among the clergy has been as great a danger to it as that tendency to asceticism which seems to be inherent in much of Christian thinking. Above all the forces of reformation have had a habit of breaking away entirely from the body of the Church.
This Penguin Special does not aim to convert those outside the Church or to condemn those within. It is a challenge to the latter to take nothing for granted, and to the former to re-examine their pet criticisms of the Church. In short it is a dispassionate survey of the cracks in the fabric.
Historically - and often by chance - the Church has been too closely identified with the State and too prone to cling to an organization which is almost medieval in conception. Professionalism among the clergy has been as great a danger to it as that tendency to asceticism which seems to be inherent in much of Christian thinking. Above all the forces of reformation have had a habit of breaking away entirely from the body of the Church.
This Penguin Special does not aim to convert those outside the Church or to condemn those within. It is a challenge to the latter to take nothing for granted, and to the former to re-examine their pet criticisms of the Church. In short it is a dispassionate survey of the cracks in the fabric.
156 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1961
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