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Christian Journalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

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In itself this collection of articles, letters, jokes, editorials and poems from New Christian (1965-1970) has nothing particularly to recommend it to readers five years later. Everything here was written for its own time and place rather than for export. But seen as a reminder of what New Christian stood for, as evidence to draw on should there be any other serious Christian reviews in being or possibility, it seems to me of very great value.

However we regard New Christian, praise or blame for it belongs mostly to Trevor Beeson, its permanent editor. I think he achieved remarkable success. He aimed high, and hit a lot of marks, missing only the crucial one—circulation. His short account in the Reader of what he tried for and where he failed is a model for any editor of a Christian journal. I propose to summarise it under eight heads, following each with my own comment, and drawing where necessary on the evidence of the collection.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

* A New Christian Reader. Edited by Timothy Beaumont of Whitley. SCM Press. 1974. 182 pp. £1.95.

* The Commonweal and American Catholicism. Rodger Van Allen. Fortress Press. 1974. 218 pp. $4.50.