Jacks, Mystic

Commanding a position of fame in the religious world, the Hibbert Journal completed its 21st year with the publication of the current quarterly number.

The magazine is successful: proof of the existence of thousands of intellectual Christians. Published in England, it has a wide circulation in the U. S. where its only peer is the more popular Christian Century (weekly, Chicago). Dr. L. P. Jacks, Oxford professor, is the brilliant and mystical editor. (His less highly intellectual articles appear in The Atlantic Monthly.)

"By combining philosophy with religion as material for discussion/' says Mr. Richard Hooker's Springfield Republican, "The Hibbert Journal has followed. . . the line that must lead to the religion of the future--a new embodiment of human values in symbolic forms, and the interpretation in the light of these values ... of the fundamental ideas of God, freedom and immortality."

Dr. Jacks prints in this Summer issue an article on The Sainthood of Marcus Aurelius, which is unstoicly ecstatic; a reconciliation of Judaism to European culture; a discussion of Miracle in the Old Testament; Ita de Trinitate Sentiat, which means that one is a trinitarian because one feels it; an article showing that Theologue Butler has not grown stale; contributions by Prof. Estlin Carpenter and Sir Oliver Lodge.

Editor Jacks quests ever for idea? but likes best those ideas which sting the emotions and radiate a mystic loveliness.

In England only The Pilgrim, edited by Bishop Temple, matches this Journal in the Protestant fold.