The editor of this journal has rightly intended to alert the readership to sources which deal with the big picture of Christian ethics. The books under review here have, by dealing with macro-ethics, become a part of the long view or big picture of Christian ethics. They have exhibited staying power. Only Cadoux's book is out of print. Though originally published in 1925 it was reprinted in 1955, an interesting phenomenon in the world of short shelf life.
Copies are still out there for the alert collector.
At the time of the writing of The Early Church and The World, with its hefty subtitle of A History of the Christian Attitude to Pagan Society and the State Down to the Time of Constantinus, Cadoux bore an interesting title himself. He was professor of New Testament criticism, exegesis, and theology, and of Christian sociology. Though more than a wide spot in the road we might still consider his location, Yorkshire United Independent College in Bradford, England, to be a bit off the beaten track. Yet Cadoux exhibits an extraordinary capacity for original research. He combed the resources in Greek, Latin, French, and German which dealt with the New Testament period and the early Church.