Christian Deviations: The Challenge of the New Spiritual Movements (2nd Revised Edition)

144 pp. First published in 1954; Revised and Enlarged in 1961; this copy, Stated: "Second Revised Edition 1965". Following the "Preface to New Edition," Contents divided into 12 chapters: (1) "The Challenge of the New Spiritual Movements"; (2) "Pentacostalism"; (3) "Seventh-Day Adventism"; (4) "Moral Re-armament"; (5) "The Mormons"; (6) "Jehovah's Witnesses"; (7) "British-Israel"; (8) "Christian Science"; (9) "Spiritism"; (10) "Theosophy"; (11) "A Survey"; (12) " Epilogue: The Way of Encounter" ; Index, pp. 139-144. Wrappers in dark pink, light pink and black front cover with author and title lettering in light pink over dark pink across top front cover, separated by a thin line of light pink with 'scm paperback 6/6'; lower 3/4 front cover is black with names of nine "Deviations" in light pink, superimposed in a downward slant to the right, over black. 1" tear up lower right spine edge, evincing surface rubbing off of surface black and several superficial, surface only, thin stress lines (like "crow's feet" on your cheek by your eyes) over black: re-glued and strong, NOT harming binding itself; 1" crease on the diagonal at lower right front cover corner (flat, NOT floppy, with "stress line" like lines described at lower left front cover corner); two "patches" of surface paper scraped off with wetness shared with another paperback when the two volumes were separated in the damp state (small portions of advertising blurb on rear cover impacted, but essentials of content still graspable; cosmetic damp-stain lines along top right rear cover edge, down spine and along lower edge bottom right rear cover with NO warping or odor, only light jagged line discoloration: Describes much worse than it is: text itself is tight, UNwrinkled or impacted by nugatory cosmetic imperfections. Tight binding (NO cracks); corners square (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Still VG shape for a book more than 55 years-old: the way to read or study such a Classic.…