Are we witnessing the birth of a new kind of Christianity? No doubt we are. Humanity is in the process
of evolution, of mutation. Man's discoveries astonish even man … and his power over life is growing and tire time will come when, having reached its very source, he will be able to control it, protect it and prolong it more and more. The man who lives, and will live. in this new world will have a life very different from that of his predecessors-even his immediate predecessors. Today's Christian will not live as did yesterday's Christian. He cannot, and he does not wish to. He must not'. These extracts taken from the first page of Michel Ouoist's long-awaited new book go towards summarizing the author's central concern of making relevant to modern men and women the basic timelessness of the Christian message. He succeeds in unfolding what almost amounts to a new spirituality. He insists that the concern of anyone who calls himself a Christian today must be to know, love and help his neighbour-only so can he find God. There is no place in this scheme for the Selfish pursuit of personal salvation, involving, as it has so often seemed to do, a negative attitude to the world and a rejection of the weaknesses of humanity. Man is to find his fulfilment and his redemption through the development of the world and its resources, and through genuine care for others.