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Some of
our friends who came so earnestly
to those lectures and courses, they live now
with
what we thought untenable—divorced,
or practising homosexuality, or they just gave it up,
finding
that model of the Christian life
came to pieces in their hands, that hard-earned
knowledge
icing
failure with guilt. Was it sin?
Or faithlessness? Or was there also
a
lack
of power in that theology,
tried and exhausted by experience, its careful
applications
weak appeasement to the deep
imperatives of our disordered minds and bodies,
waved
like Chamberlain's fluttering paper—"Peace in
our
time"—
against the darker annexations of the human will?
Reflections
on courses of study
run by Andrew Cornes at All Souls, Langham Place.
Peace in our time Neville Chamberlain’s words on returning from his attempt to appease Hitler at Munich in 1938, as he waved “a piece of paper bearing the signature of Herr Hitler” which was supposed to guarantee peace.