'Deservedly reissued for a new generation.'

The Tablet Books of the Year

'Here was a theologian taught by his mentors Aquinas and Wittgenstein to ask questions and to go on asking them even when everyone else had stopped.'

Times Literary Supplement

'I began to marvel at how mainstream the theology of The New Creation seemed to be. I began to wonder, then, how McCabe could have produced a book, to which he wrote the introduction in 1963 - before Vatican II had produced any of it's documents - that seems to fit so comfortably in the mainstream Catholic theology of sacraments that had established itself since Vatican II.'

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