(1) The Gist of Evolution (2) Selected Articles on Evolution (3) Science as Revelation (4) God and Evolution

Abstract

SO far as one can see from current apologetic literature, England and America present rather a strong contrast. The religious problem across the Atlantic seems merely to be the limited one of evolution versus the book of Genesis, an issue which engaged the attention of Englishmen half a century ago, when Americans were getting over their disastrous civil war. The three volumes from America before us all deal more or less directly with the Fundamentalist controversy, the seriousness of which is not understood in England, where we are inclined to laugh at it. It is, however, no laughing matter. It is already being converted into a political issue; the “Bible Schools” where non-graduates are trained for the ministry are engaged in an industrious propaganda, and in some places no political candidate would stand a chance of lection who did not profess ‘Biblical’ views, and no teacher in a public institution could retain his position i he favoured evolution.

(1) The Gist of Evolution.

By Prof. Horatio Hackett Newman. Pp. x + 154. (NewYork: The Macmillan Co., 1926.) 6s. net.

(2) Selected Articles on Evolution.

Compiled by Edith M. Phelps. (The Handbook Series.) Pp. liii + 283. (New York: The H. W. Wilson Co.; London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1926.) 2.40 dollars.

(3) Science as Revelation.

By John M. Watson. Pp. 303 + 7 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925.) 10s. net.

(4) God and Evolution.

By the Rev.W. R. Matthews. (Liverpool Diocesan Board of Divinity Publications.) Pp. ix + 58. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 35. net.