PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 19

PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC

''The .Protestant Faith Contrasted 'with the Roman.' Catholic Kith." By .Tohn Burgess, M.A., Hon. D.D. (St. Andrew's), Sydney: Angus and Robertson. The: author seeks to show that tho Protestant faith is something more than protestant against tho claims of the Bonian Catholic faith, something positive, not negative. It is "the pure ovangel" and is to be> identified with ovangelieal Christianity. Due acknowledgment is paid by the author to tUo services rendered by the -'.Roman Church to common Christianity, and tho common ground of Protestantism and Ro-man-Catholicism, inherited by both from the primiyive church is kept :n view. The author's object in writing this scholarly but controversial work is to ; combat attempts which, he says, are being made to allure the youth of Protestant churches from their faith, "while Rome is putting forth every effort to gain supremacy in the political life of the nations." The •writer, in over 300 pages, goes deeply into history of. Protestantism and the reasons for the Reformation showing the jtvido differences between tho Roman and Protestant points of view'on doctrinal, moral, social, and political subjects. The work.has evidontlyl; taken/a long tithe to compile, and a copious'index will be found, very iisefy for reference. . Quotations are freely made -from early : and modern writers on the Church.