Child of Evangelism
James Wood, 3 October 1996
The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage
by Paul Johnson.
Weidenfeld, 216 pp., £14.99, March 1996,0 297 81764 7 Show More
by Paul Johnson.
Weidenfeld, 216 pp., £14.99, March 1996,
God in Us: A Case for Christian Humanism
by Anthony Freeman.
SCM, 87 pp., £5.95, September 1993,0 344 02538 1 Show More
by Anthony Freeman.
SCM, 87 pp., £5.95, September 1993,
Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Hodder, 401 pp., £20, October 1996,0 340 57107 1 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Hodder, 401 pp., £20, October 1996,
“... promises of the New Testament – ‘If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will give it’ (John 14) – seemed not to be a promise. Faith might move mountains, but in an invisible mountain range. And I noticed that when people were speaking in tongues, instead of producing a nonsense version of English, they seemed to produce a tourist’s imitation of ... ”