they urge, is to cease trying to convert people of other faiths and instead, through dialogue, to profit from, and combine, the valid insights of all religions, Christianity included. One thing, they warn us, the modern mind cannot and will not tolerate any longer: the monopolistic claims of old-fashioned, fundamentalist Christianity. It was successful in the ancient world: it could not survive in ours. But before we swallow this apparently plausible argument, we would be wise to re-read Luke’s history