SATAN AND CARDINAL CAMPBELL

by Bruce Marshall ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 2, 1959

Satan-in the form of disbelievers, and bores, and worldly churchmen, and sinners who should know better -- these were Father Campbell's foes, from his days of ordination- a convert and lonely- to his deathbed, as a Cardinal, the first Scottish cardinal in centuries. Bruce Marshall has cut out a strange role for himself. Only the erudite among the Catholic readers will care to follow the intricacies of his argument, as he presents the pros and cons of the higher criticism. To other Catholics, much of what he writes, with its subtle barbs at the foibles of the Church, with its ironic diatribes against the evasions, the compromises, the basic failures, will seem an attack on the Church, not to be stomached. And to non Catholics, most of it will be unintelligible. The plot is a slender thread on which pages and pages of discussion are hung. Some of the characters of the Church emerge as complete entities; the story is nil. A hard book to place. Probably those who will like it most are those for whom it is not intended.

Pub Date: April 2, 1959

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1959

Categories: FICTION