The Way, the Truth, and the Life

the long version

In the introduction to this book the author modestly disclaims any special academic qualifications, describing himself as 'an armature theologian' who only wishes to 'stand back and take a steady look at the picture as a whole'. Readers will discover that he has infact done far more than this. His nine chapters under such headings as 'God and man'; 'The life of Jesus'; 'The Holy Spirit', present no dry intellectual abstractions but a coherent and attractive attitude to life. The great doctrines are put in relation to everyday situations; and with shirking intellectual problems Mr Macphail shows that the real answers are not found by those who look for certainty before they act, but those who seek a faith to live by. He neither lectures his reader nor preaches at them, but writes sound sense enlivened with many happily chosen quotations ranging from the Bible to Alexander Woollcott.