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good enough or too heterodox. Nobody
would ever expect to get him to publish it
(he's not a publisher is he?): it would prob
ably send down the circulation of the B.W. 25
per cent. And of course lots of publishers would
be extremely shy of it on the same grounds.

The ideas of Jesus were extremely startling at all
times. And the mere process of restating them
is bound to be equally startling: especially the
people who think they know, and have never even
reflected on them. Clutton Brock's book startled
me a lot, but I could see at once it was right.

As for my own interests, publishing
a book on Jesus at all may be a little against
you at the bar - or indeed publishing a book on