In the introduction to this book the author modestly disclaims any special academic qualifications, describing himself as 'an armature theologian' who only wishes to 'stand back and take a steady look at the picture as a whole'. Readers will discover that he has infact done far more than this. His nine chapters under such headings as 'God and man'; 'The life of Jesus'; 'The Holy Spirit', present no dry intellectual abstractions but a coherent and attractive attitude to life. The great doctrines are put in relation to everyday situations; and with shirking intellectual problems Mr Macphail shows that the real answers are not found by those who look for certainty before they act, but those who seek a faith to live by. He neither lectures his reader nor preaches at them, but writes sound sense enlivened with many happily chosen quotations ranging from the Bible to Alexander Woollcott.