14 Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



POLITICS AND RELIGION. 



By GABRIEL GILLETT, 



RECTOR OF MADRESFIELD, WORCESTERSHIRE. 



One Volume. Crown Svo. 35. 6d. net. 



The author, who was for several years Chaplain to Lord Halifax, 

 begins with a sketch of the apocalyptic theory of early Christianity. 

 It was an otherworldly religion, hence the Christian religion is 

 primarily spiritual, and only indirectly concerned with politics or 

 even with civilization. Then follows a sketch of Christian patriotism 

 and citizenship. The need of independent judgment on the part of 

 citizens is emphasized and the relation of Christianity to democracy 

 discussed : the principles of democracy are essentially Christian, 

 because based on the doctrine of the eternal worth of every human 

 being. The Christian Church has no official solution of economic 

 problems : but real efficiency can only be acquired in conditions of 

 freedom. Until this is fully realized there will be a long struggle 

 between the Christian ideal of democracy and the scientific ideal of 

 democracy. There is need of Christian politicians to combat the un- 

 reality of party controversies in England. Loss of popular control 

 over legislation appears to be a great danger. There is also need 

 of freedom from State control for the Church. 



THE CHURCH & NONCONFORMITY. 



By the Venerable J. H. GREIG, 



ARCHDEACON OF WORCESTER. 



One Volume. Crown Svo. 35. 6d. net. 



This book is an effort to examine the present relations between 

 the Anglican Communion and " Organized Nonconformity." But it 

 is even more an attempt to state some principles of reunion and 

 some actual steps in that direction which the author believes could 

 be taken immediately. The goal may be far off, but the road 

 is open now to all who do not despise first steps because they 

 are not the final goal. The writer begins by pointing out how 

 increasingly our disunion threatens Christianity itself. We are 

 kept apart, he says, by actual divergences of view and doctrine; 

 but far more by the temper to which our differences have 

 given rise. The views of the chief Nonconformist bodies on 

 such matters as the Ministry and the Sacraments are analyzed 

 and compared with those of the Church. The immense changes 

 which differentiate the present position from that of the Fifteenth 

 and Sixteenth centuries, and the consequent removal of many 

 barriers, are pointed out; and finally, though it is freely granted 

 that the way back to corporate reunion is long, it is urged that 

 not a little may be done at once to prepare the way for the future 

 consummation of Unity. 



