Keeping the Faith

<p>In 1889 eleven Oxford dons prepared a volume of essays aimed at expounding the Christian Creed in a manner that put the Catholic faith into its right relation to modern intellectual and moral problems. Since the publication of Lux Mundi as the dons chose to call their work humankind has witnessed a century of extraordinary almost seismic explosions in knowledge (particularly in the natural sciences) communications and destructive weaponry. These developments have quite naturally placed unusually challenging intellectual and practical demands upon the church of Christ. Therefore the time is right for another interpretation of the faith we have received a restatement of its claim and meaning and a positive presentation of the central ideas and principles of Christian faith under the stimulus of contemporary thought in an effort to meet current problems.</p><p>The present volume represents a contribution to that task. It should not however be regarded as a revision of the original Lux Mundi. Rather <i>Keeping the Faith</i> honors the original project and its authors by attempting in its own time as the original project did in its a clarification of faith's apprehension of the everlasting gospel which is always needed for the gospel's transmission to contemporaries and to the future.</p>