CONTENTS:
I. The Greatest Drama Ever Staged Is the Official Creed of Christendom [". . . before we dismiss Christ as a myth, an idealist, a demagogue, a liar, or a lunatic--it will do no harm to find out what the creeds really say about Him. What does the Church think of Christ?"]
II. The Triumph of Easter ["The problem of sin and evil is, as everybody knows, one which all religions have to face, especially those that postulate an all-good and all-powerful God. 'If', we say readily, 'God is holy and omnipotent, He would interfere and stop all this kind of thing'--meaning by 'this kind of thing' wars, persecutions, cruelties, Hitlerism, Bolshevism, or whatever large issue happens to be distressing our minds at the time. But let us be quite sure that we have really considered the problem in all its aspects. 'Why doesn't God smite this dictator dead' is a question a little remote from us."]
III. Strong Meat ["Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward, we must believe in age. . . . All normal children (however much we discourage them) look forward to growing up. 'Except ye become as little children,' except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, 'ye cannot see the Kingdom of God'. One must not only die daily, but every day one must be born again."]
IV. The Dogma is the Drama ["Christ, in His Divine innocence, said to the Woman of Samaria, 'Ye worship ye know not what'--being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshipping. He thus showed Himself sadly out of touch with the twentieth-century mind, for the cry to-day is 'Away with the tedious complexities of dogma--let us have the simple spirit of worship; just worship, no matter of what!' The only drawback to this demand for a generalized and undirected worship is the practical difficulty of arousing any sort of enthusiasm for the worship of nothing in particular."]
V. Creed or Chaos? ["The real question is what economics and politics are to be used for; whether freedom and justice and faith have any right to be considered at all; at bottom it is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of man and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma."]
VI. Why Work? ["I asked that [work] should be looked upon--not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfil itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing."]
VII. The Other Six Deadly Sins ["I am reminded of a young man who once said to me with perfect simplicity: 'I did not know there were seen deadly sins: please tell me the names of the other six.' About the sin called Luxuria or Lust, I shall therefore say only three things. First, that it is a sin, and that it ought to be called plainly by its own name, and neither huddled away under a generic term like immorality, nor confused with love."]

An eloquent modern defense of classic Christianity.