Catholic Church, Dogmatic Theology, Great Britain, Controversial literature -- Catholic authors, Christianity--Philosophy 

The writing of an apologia is not the inevitable action of every new convert to Catholicism, but in Mr. Lunn's case something of the sort was looked for. He has lived in the forefront of religious controversy for many years and has appeared - in Roman Converts and Difficulties - as a spirited antagonist to the Catholic Church. But the growth of a conviction contrary to his instincts, environment and traditions has gone steadily on, ousting prejudices and arranging experience by the persistent light of reason.

To-day there are not lacking accounts of religious conversion, but it is the special merit of this book to give reasons where so many describe emotions. Mr. Lunn's reasons, moreover, are not presented as abstract and arid arguments: they are shown as actually operative in his own eventful life - at home, at Harrow, at Oxford, in travels everywhere and in contact with all sorts of people. He is infectiously candid, energetic and good-humoured through it all; so his very serious book is sometimes scandalously amusing and never dull.

Taken from the front inside flap.