Religion: Young Theologians

Dies irae, dies illa,

Solvet saeclumm in favilla. . . .

A gloomy, wrathful day, gloomy as the days of the 13th Century friar who cried Dies Irae! Capitalism totters. Socialism? Communism? No, man is corrupt, his society is decadent, even his systems of worship are sterile. . . . There is still God. But are there not many Gods?—the Jehovah of the Fundamentalists, the incense-wrapped God of the Anglo-Catholics, the polite God of the Episcopalians, the companionable God of such new faiths as Dr. Frank Buchman's Groups? There are also many prophets, cultists,...

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