28 JULY 1923, Page 20

The Boyhood Consciousness of Christ. By Rev. P. J. Temple.

(Macmillan. 16s. net.) This somewhat prolix exposition of Luke ii. 49, which appears with the Nihil Obstat of an ecclesiastical censor and with the Imprinuitur of the Riiman Catholic Archbishop of New York, will not convince anyone who was not already convinced on other grounds of the adequacy of the Christological formula advocated by the writer, and many of these persons may wish to see it placed on a more solid foundation. The fallacy inseparable from the formulas of speculative theology is due to the inability of language to deal with transcendental subject-matter. The spiritual is " spiritually discerned."