13 JULY 1944, Page 14

THE UNREST IN RELIGION

SIR,—I have no wish to underestimate the value of the work of the Com- mission on Doctrine or to disparage the Commission's "authority," when authority means, as cmctoritas could mean, weight and prestige rather than legal power.

But the words "an authoritative utterance of the English Church" can hardly fail to mislead, which would be very far from Erasmian's desire. They convey the notion of the English Church approving the Report and making it its own. Nothing of that kind has occurred, and it is not unimportant this should be made quite plain.—Yours faithfully, J. K. MOZLEY.