Religion: Religious Book?

The Religious Book Club has no Index Librorum Prohibitorum — it is proud of its lack of religious rigidity in the books it recommends to subscribers. But this month many a Christian thought the club's board of editors* might well be ashamed of its religious laxity. Reason: the recommendation of Robert Graves's anti-Christian literary curiosity, King Jesus (TiME, Sept. 30).

*Which includes such top Protestants as Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Samuel McCrea Cavert and Charles Clayton Morrison.

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