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The Methods of the Group Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2024

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Is any religion better than none? The Church of England has evidently come to this conclusion, for it is hard to believe that any other alternative would have led the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to give a personal ‘commission’ at Lambeth and St. Paul’s to an American Lutheran minister and a mixed crowd of five hundred amateur evangelists of every religious denomination for the purpose of converting London. I think it is true to say that fifteen years ago this could not have happened, and it is little less than a confession of spiritual penury that it can happen now. That the Bishop of Calcutta is sponsoring the Group Movement ‘Campaign’ has, perhaps, something to do with this official patronage, but nevertheless there is little that accords with the traditions and beliefs of the best type of Anglicanism in this strange mingle-mangle of Lutheran pietism, psycho-analytic methods and modern publicity propaganda.

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