ABSTRACT
The reception by the clerical world of my book published in 1955 became for me an educational experience: I gained from it more understanding than I had ever had before—since I have no affiliation with any Church—of the doctrines and the attitudes of the various religious bodies. The religious group that was least disturbed by the implications of the scrolls was the American Unitarians, who were then having a controversy among themselves as to whether or not they were Christians and who welcomed with something like glee anything that might seem to weaken the pretensions of the more fundamentalist Churches. The groups that were most disturbed were the Orthodox Jews, the Catholics and the "Establishment" of the Church of England.
