CONTENTS ORIGINALITY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH . . .II CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ITS FOUNDERS . POPULAR DETERMINISM AND MR BLATCHFORD . . 31 . 59 REASON VERSUS RATIONALISM 73 THEOSOPHIC DOGMAS FOR ESCAPED ETHICISTS . . 95 TOLSTOYAN THEORY AND DOUKHOBOR PRACTICE . 115 THE RELIGION OF THE SPIRITISTS . . . -139 THE WELSH REVIVAL AND AFTER . . . . 155 SALVATIONISM 183 THE SABBATARIANS.... . 203 THE HERESY OF THE TEETOTALLERS . . .217 KENSITITES AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. , 235 SHORTER STUDIES IN CREDULITY .... 249 THE CATHOLIC HARVEST 269 ORIGINALITY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH Creedless creed-builders Extracts and essences The return to dogma The nature of heresy Conventionality versus orthodoxy Modernism and traditionalism The composite Catholic man A good spiritual digestion What is originality The sheep and the goats.THE dominant protest of our times is a protest against creeds. People who believe anything definitely and can put their belief into words, are now called Creedalists. People who see the value of belonging to a fellowship are called Institutionalists. Christianity is supposed to have nothing in common with creeds or institutions, and we hear much of the essence of belief as though the Christian Religion were a kind of meat extract, a Harnack s Bovril or a Schmiedel s Oxo. But the wiser doctors of the body will tell you that these extracts and essences are much over rated, and the wiser doctors of the soul are coming to the same conclusion. Opponents of the Harnack s extract of belief theory may well ask if we should judge of the essential oak by the acorn, rather than by the tree, and insist that the Christian Faith is to be sought not only in the Gospel promise, but also in its historical development. They further insist and in view of modern New Testament criticism this is significant that even if acorn analysis were the true method, Christians, in point of fact, have no acorn to analyse, for the Gospels, however near they may ii --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.