Probably the best way to describe Mr. Elliot, at least so far as the form and substance of his work is concerned, would be to say that he is a sort of Protestant Fulton Sheen. The practical significance of that identification is that Elliot's sermons--and this book is, in everything but name, a collection of sermons--are well structured, passably well written homilies, designed to edify rather than to instruct. The individual chapters of the present work each explain one verse of the twenty-third psalm in purely affective terms and with a liberal sprinkling of pulpit anecdotes, sacristy humor, rhetorical questions, and superfluous exclamation points. The overall effect thirty-five years ago would have been to enchant the reader, at least momentarily; today, however, such exercises in the theology of imagination have lost much of their charm.