of the gospel. The existentialists were so brutally honest about the human sickness. They never suffered under the delusions of progress and the vague hopes of social evolution that deluded so many in the nineteenth century. Camus’s novel “honestly confronts the predicament of mankind. That is why existentialism may mean more to the Church when the books are balanced than what Baron von Hugel called, ‘little churchinesses.’ ”316 But to the question of expiation our sermon must now turn. Buttrick