In Memoriam of former Tablet Editor, John Wilkins who passed away aged 86 on Tuesday, 26th April. Witten by Doctrine and Life Editor, Bernard Treacy OP. 

 

Christians are often blamed for being so concerned for the next life that they ignore the value and beauty of the world around them. They are blamed for being so interested in being saved from the world, that they do not care for saving the planet. This caricature is unjust, but we have to admit that many Christians have adopted such a strange attitude to the material world that it is easy to see how the caricature has arisen. Thomas O'Loughlin writes that in order to be the People of God we have, first, to become the people of love. To be the people of God we have, first, to become the People of the Creation.

T.P. O’Mahony examines the John Lennon song, ‘Imagine’, concluding that, in spite of its claims, religion remains one of the most important aspects of human life in the twenty-first century.9.

David Begg shows, in Doctrine & Life, July August, how, despite optimism at the time of its joining, membership of the World Trade Organisation ‘has allowed China access to western markets without forcing it to change its behaviour, with disastrous consequences for workers and wages throughout the world

Extracted from Doctrine & Life, May-June 2020, pp. 38-46