formerly a teacher in Cambridge University, England, has treated the matter very ably in a large book, The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology. There he refers to “the great work of H. Windisch, Baptism and Sin in the Oldest Christianity Up to Origen, published in 1908.” Windisch was a Swiss theologian who contended that the earliest Christianity taught living above sin, and Dr. Flew says, in effect, that Windisch’s findings have never been refuted. The historical fact is that the doctrine of