Volume 29, Number 10 · June 10, 1982
The Last Puritan
By Noel Annan
Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge
selected and edited by John Bright-Holmes
William Morrow, 560 pp., $18.00
Chronicles of Wasted Time
by Malcolm Muggeridge
Quill (William Morrow), 2: The Infernal Grove, 280 pp., $7.50 (paper)
It is rare to find these days a supralapsarian walking the streets where the intelligentsia live. There are always a few sublapsarians about who accept the mealy-mouthed doctrine put forward in 1618 at the Synod of Dort that man was created naturally good until Adam and Eve disobeyed God; ever since their descendants have been conceived in original sin and the world has been a wicked place. The supralapsarian holds a more heroic and a more logical view of the matter. Being omniscient and omnipotent God must have determined before the Fall of Man which few of his created creatures he would elect to salvation and exactly how great the large majority of the damned would be. Man could never at any moment have been other than evil and degraded.
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