3 FEBRUARY 1939, Page 32

Profzssor Macmurray's use of the definite article in the title

of his thesis (Student Christian Movement, 7s. 6d.) may well inspire doubt in those who have been offered various other explanations. of the historical process. But it is none the less a weighty plea for the fuller recognition of the Jewish origin and content of Christianity and of the enduring importance of Christ's doctrine, essentially Jewish, of " a universal community of mankind based on love, freedom and equality." The author insists that the Christian religion alone affords a basis for the idea of progress, though its growth has been warped and hampered by a 'fatal dualism from which the Sermon on the Mount was free.