Books, Arts & Manners: The Age of Spong

Living in Sin: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, by John Shelby Spong (Harper & Row, 256 pp., $15.95)

Only a modern-day Episcopal bishop could write a book like this one—literate, articulate, heavy with sociological jargon, indifferent to the accumulated wisdom of the past—and hopelessly naive.