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and Titer. Chas, 4. Thyme and Por'so years Msigr ary to Chita Jarvis, Lid, Whitefsiare Street, London, E.. 4, This book might be entitled "'Jonathan Blunt sees red" and when Jonathan Blunt sees red it is no Pink tinge but a.deep vermilion such og would drive mad the ternest bull that was ever pastured. He is obsessed with the conviction that certain tainted—no, deep is known as modern thought in theology. He describes modernism as being the appeal to the "mental faculties and subjective intuitions, uplighted by any inspirational ¢uthority whatever. Moderniem denies, in fact, that any objective authority had ever been at work for the revelatory enlightenment of ian." Put briefly, perhaps, he would say that the modernist claims to submit the teaching of Seriptore to the test of reason and, where reason hot satisfied, to prefer the guidance of enlightened opinion to a blind adherence to the letter of Scripture, Jonathan Blunt's position would be that the teaching of scripture is paramount and where that seems to conflict with the teachings of science he would unhesitatingly choose to believe the scriptures and hold that further light will show the Bible to be right and science to be wrong. He has collated a vast consensus of opimian bearing out his argument from many and varied sources bat jays particular emphasis on his own experience gathered during 20 odd years of missionary work in China and Tibet. We may disagree with him but science has no better claim to infallibility than that it ie the considered opinion of educated men, and none would be readier to admit at the cient to-day contradicts the teaching o® yesterday and will, in its turn, be superseded by the new" light of to-morrow than the scientist himself.
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