This book opened with the words of Evelyn Waugh, to whom it had ‘never occurred’ that ‘the Church was susceptible to change’, too. When he did notice this change, he thought that he should write (or that he had written) an ‘obituary’ to the Church, as one does to a dearly beloved who has passed away. Does change therefore visit death on the Church and do theories of doctrinal development that deal with this change sound the death knell for this sacred institution?