By Dom PETER DAMIEN The Bible, Word of God in Words of Men, by
Jean Levie S.J., (Chapman, 30s.). Mechanism and Vitalism,
Philosophical Aspects of Biology, by R. Schubert-Soldern (Burns
& Oates, Saint Joseph, by Boniface Llamera, O.P. (Herder, 44s.).
Prayers for Meditation, by Hugo Rahner and Karl Rahner (Herder
Nelson, 9s. 6d.). HE majority of Catholics arc probably unaware
of, and would almost certainly be shocked by, the revolution,
which has taken place during the present century in the manner
of interpreting the Bible. Nobody likes to revise ideas, least
of all those learnt at mother's knee. We are liable to suspect
of heresy a writer who tells us that Noah's flood almost
certainly did not submerge Mount Everest, even though we may
have been dimly but uncomfortably aware of the difficulties of
maintaining that it did. We would be still more uncomfortable if
the writer replied that he had no less a person than Pope Pius
XII on his side. Father Levie, translated by S. H. Troman, has
written a useful handboo