CAN - I BE A CHRISTIAN ?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The lady Cambridge graduate, now working in an advertising agency, who writes on " Can I be a Christian ? " can certainly be a Christian if she first constructs her Christi- anity.for herself. What hinders ?
If Christianity consists in the worship of Jesus of Nazareth as God Incarnate, the official and invariable form, her prospects do not seem bright. It is necessary, in order to keep relevant, to omit consideration of the merely useful and to render to Jesus deity without condition or qualification. " Up to a point " will not do. All that one has the power to render is required : no more, but no less.
When this lady writer becomes a thirty-plus, she will ere long come to realise, probably, that we cannot bargain with God to supply us with " a faith that we can accept." God's revelation of Himself in Christ amounts to a claim to which we must St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Chester. Bishop.
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