"Edited by Dr. Percy Dearmer, Canon of Westminster".
"The issue, indeed, is simple. The motives and methods of human life are not sufficiently moralised: it was to moralise the machinery of production, to limit the power of selfishness, that Wilberforce and Shaftesbury were working a century ago; and the whole world now enjoys what Christians then won: but in many ways industry and business, and family life, and civic and political activity, need further moralisation. Money -- the necessary use of tokens of exchange -- has been overlooked in its moral aspect (in spite of what Christ said about it) .... And, alas, there was one aspect of human life which was not understood a hundred years ago; and to this our present miseries are mainly due. The very word 'international' had then only just been coined by Jeremy Bentham. The whole conception of moralising international relations was in its infancy. So the world went on to its doom. So, because the nations and their representatives have not yet learnt the elements of international behaviour, we stand at this moment of writing on the brink of irretrievable disaster. It is in a very real sense true that only Christ can save the world from ruin to-day. Are we prepared to let his spirit save the nations from themselves ?" -- Preface, p. 10-11.
Contents: Preface By the Editor / Percy Dearmer -- Introductory: "Christ or Chaos ?" -- 1. Vindication / E.A. Burroughs -- 2. The Demands of the Ordinary Man / Albert Mansbridge -- Part I: The Present Chaos -- 1. The Intellectual and Moral Confusion / W.R. Matthews -- 2. The Confusion in Literature / Richard Ellis Roberts -- 3. The Social and Economic Confusion / P.T.R. Kirk -- 4. The Confusion in International Relations / J. Howard B. Masterman -- Part II: What Christianity Is -- 1. The Secret of Christ / Charles E. Raven -- 2. Christ's Conception of the Kingdom of God / Arthur Herbert Gray -- 3. The Original Fellowship Idea of the Christian Church / Joseph Wellington Hunkin -- 4. The Christian View of Man as Social / S.J. Bezzant -- 5. Christianity and History: -- a) General Development / Malcolm Spencer -- b) Social Progress and the Continental Churches / A.E. Garvie -- c) The Stockholm Conference / G.K.A. Bell -- 6. Uniting the Christian Forces / Edward S. Woods -- 7. What the Church is Doing: Social Activities / S.E. Keeble -- Part III: The Christian Solution -- 1. Personal and Family Life / A.A. David -- 2. Education / Charles Grant Robertson -- 3. The Social and Economic Order -- a) The Basis of Exchange / Hewlett Johnson -- b) Civic and Industrial Reform / J. Morgan Rees -- c) Individual Function and the Community / E. C. Urwin -- d) Labour and Leisure / A. Maude Royden -- e) The Rebirth of the Village / W. Beach Thomas -- 4. The State and Constructive Citizenship / W.G.S. Adams -- 5. The World of International Affairs -- a) Christianity and the League of Nations / Lord Dickinson -- b) The Crisis and the East / J.B. Raju -- c) Disarmament / Cosmo Gordon Lang -- d) A Christian Peace Policy / E.N. Porter Goff -- 6. Is There an Alternative ? -- a) Scientific Humanism and Religions of Life / H.G. Wood -- b) Industrial Secularism / Maurice B. Reckitt -- c) Communist Secularism / Nicolai A. Berdiaeff -- 7. The Church in the World: Failures and Opportunities / F.R. Barry -- 8. The Conclusion of the Matter / William Temple -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton". -- verso of t.-p.
"The papers included in this volume were presented to the Conference held in January 1941, and commonly known, from its place of meeting, as the Malvern Conference. The aim of that Conference was to consider how far the Christian faith and principles based upon it afford guidance for action in the world of to-day. Accordingly the papers delivered as a basis for discussion were predominantly theological in the wider sense of the term -- the sense which it bears in the title of St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologica' For we were more concerned to find the right starting point, and so to lay down sound principles, than to draw up anything resembling a political programme. ....The findings of the Conference were printed as early as possible, and can be obtained from the office of the Industrial Christian Fellowship ... They are not reprinted in this volume because it is thought that they may tend to draw attention to themselves and away from the arguments developed in the paper; or one or another may be associated with unwarrantable closeness with one or another of the papers. The object of this volume is to let a wider circle share the thoughts actually presented at Malvern; in other minds they may leader to other conclusions, or to a different balance of conclusions". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction dated May 16th, 1941 / William Ebor i.e. William Temple, Archbishop of York -- Document A -- Document B -- The Scene of the Conference / Bernard Causton -- Opening Address / William Ebor i.e. William Temple, Archbishop of York -- Section A Document A: Questions 1 and 2 -- The Essential Nature of the Problem / W.G. Peck -- War: the Upshot of Peace / M.B. Beckitt -- Section B Document A Questions 1, 2, 3, 4 --- The Church's Responsibility / D.L. Sayers -- Revelation and Social Justice / D.M. Mackinnon -- Section C Document A Questions 1 and 2 -- Christian Strategy / V.A. Demant -- Section D Document B -- Practical Questions I / Richard Acland -- Practical Questions II / Kenneth Ingram -- Section E Document A Questions 1 and 2 -- The Leadership of the Church / J. Middleton Murray -- The Christian Conception of Education / T.S. Eliot -- A Review of the Conference / The Archbishop of York i.e. William Temple -- Appendix: List of Members.
Colophon: Made and Printed in Great Britain by the Kemp Hall Press Ltd. in the City of Oxford.
"The project of a Mission to London came immediately out of the Episcopal Visitation held in 1947". ....The syllabus, thus far, only served the purpose of the first two aims we had put before ourselves -- those of appealing to the outsiders and to lapsed church people. The third aim -- that of showing that Christianity had something to say with regard to public problems and communal life -- was dealt with as a kind of appendix to this first part of the Mission". -- Foreword.
Contents: Foreword: Steps Leading to the Mission dated June 1949 / Wm. Londin i.e. Wand -- Part I / W.R. Matthews [Dean of St. Paul's] -- Part II -- The Breakdown of the Family / Stephen C. Neill -- Work and National Reconstruction / Maurice B. Reckitt -- Christianity and the Modern State / D.R. Davies [Rev.] -- Leisure and Re-creation / F.D.V. Narborough [Bishop of Colchester] -- World Peace / J.W.C. Wand -- Epilogue / J.W.C. Wand.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.
"The project of a Mission to London came immediately out of the Episcopal Visitation held in 1947". ....The syllabus, thus far, only served the purpose of the first two aims we had put before ourselves -- those of appealing to the outsiders and to lapsed church people. The third aim -- that of showing that Christianity had something to say with regard to public problems and communal life -- was dealt with as a kind of appendix to this first part of the Mission". -- Foreword.
Contents: Foreword: Steps Leading to the Mission dated June 1949 / Wm. Londin i.e. Wand -- Part I / W.R. Matthews -- Part II -- The Breakdown of the Family / Stephen C. Neill -- Work and National Reconstruction / Maurice B. Reckitt -- Christianity and the Modern State / D.R. Davies -- Leisure and Re-creation / F.D.V. Narborough -- World Peace / J.W.C. Wand -- Epilogue / J.W.C. Wand.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.