The Validity of English Ordinations. By the Most Rev. Chrestos
Androutsos. Translated by F. W. Groves Campbell. (Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—Professor Androutsos shows all the courtesy and reasonableness that could be desired. He examines with scrupulous care and in the most candid manner our dogmatic standards and our offices, especially those of the Eucharist and of Ordination. He expresses a high opinion of our moral and spiritual being, which he holds to be in a sounder condition than that of Rome. But he is not satisfied on the questions which he examines. Indeed, he could not be. A community outside the Orthodox Church is ipso facto condemned. The Sacraments are worthless ; at the utmost its adherents may receive Christian burial. But is there any hope or remedy ? Yes ; this is the Professor's ultimatum : Let the Anglican Church prove that she holds the true Doctrine of the Priesthood, the Seven Sacraments, the Real Presence, the Ifnbloody Sacrifice, the Divine Authority to absolve in Confession, and acknowledge the absolute inerrancy of the Seven Oecumenical Councils,—then the Easterns will see what they can do for us. It might seem difficult to reconcile the last with Article XXI., but nothing is impossible to a theologian.
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