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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
At the outset of this essay it should be understood that its author does not claim to have derived any special pleasure from writing it. In fact, he would not have written it at all if in the time since publication one single voice had come to his ears, theologically challenging the title Honest to God given to his book by the Bishop of Woolwich. In time past the author of this essay was a lecturer in Roman Law, and he is now endeavouring to be a Church historian. He thus takes a much greater pleasure in resolving the problems which are set by ‘The first two years of the reign of the emperor Theodosius I'1 or in outlining The Framework of the New Testament Stories2, than in indulging in the rabies theologorum, the fury of the theologians, which was bitterly denounced already by Philip Melanchthon, the German reformer. The author of this essay would, therefore, willingly have left the task of expounding the Church's doctrine to those to whom it by right belongs, the bishops and the doctors of the Church.
page 431 note 1 J.E.H., 1964, p. 1 ff.
page 431 note 2 Manchester University Press, 1964.
page 432 note 1 Ps. 94.11.
page 440 note 1 Moorhead, Alan, The White Nile, Penguin 1963, p. 97 and passim.Google Scholar
page 444 note 1 Kroll, Josef, Gott und Hölle, Studien der Bibliothek Warburg XX, Leipzig 1932.Google Scholar
page 444 note 2 Honest to God, paperback edition, p. 29.
page 445 note 1 Eccles. 3.11, ‘He made everything beautiful in his time; also he has set the aion (this world LXX) in their heart, so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.’
page 447 note 1 The Greek is, I think, more easily translated in a personal way than in an impersonal one in Matt. 6.13; but the difference in the translation is not very important theologically.