It is an arguable thesis that the Protestantism which broke off from catholic unity in the sixteenth century is now most authentically represented by the group calling itself ‘The Modern Churchmen’s Union for the advancement of Liberal Religious Thought.’ Not that these modern ecclesiastical Liberals have fewer inconsistencies in doctrine and practice than have the other insurgents against the de facto and de jure Catholic Church. Thus even the authentic ‘aims of the Modern Churchmen’s Union’ as authentically stated in the Report (p. xvii) contain the following :

(a) For the moment we are at a loss to know how the President of the Union, Dean Inge, has allowed the category of Progress to find a place in the aims. His broadside attack on the modern idea of Progress is remembered by us as one of the most refreshing draughts in modern English letters.