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London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. 12mo. xvi,, 377pp. Finely bound in full polished calf, a prize binding. Spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers.At the beginning of the twentieth century, W.C.E. Newbolt and Darwell Stone saw a surplus of complex academic theology coming out of universities and cathedrals, but a lack of channels that could get this learning into the hands of the devout laypeople who could put it into practice. They organized the Oxford Library of Practical Theology and this volume is but one of a total of twenty-two in the series. The goal was to convert complex early-twentieth-century academic theology into digestible volumes, drawing on the brightest minds of the early twentieth-century Anglican church.
