In view of the criticisms passed on some of the
views expressed by the Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England as rather advanced, a passage in a letter by Benjamin Jowett written forty-five years ago to Lady Oxford, then Miss Tennant, and printed in her autobiography, is perhaps worth quotation : " To act up to our best lights," wrote the Master, " that is quite enough ; there need be no trouble about dogmas, which are hardly intelligible to us, nor ought there to be any trouble about historical facts, including miracles, of which the view of the world has naturally altered in the course of ages. I include in this such questions as whether Our Lord rose from the dead in any natural sense of the words. It is quite a different question whether we shall imitate Him in His life."
Latitudinarianism, or true religion ? * * * *
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