Before the first storm hits, the reader knows that it's not going to work.

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The reader very quickly sees that Mr Bellos's work is an exploration of the effects of language and translation.

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Best of all, he makes the reader want to go back to Graham's original work.

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The problem with traditional print journalism, he says, is it often comes in a form that's indigestible to the typical Web reader, who might be surfing between meetings at work or on his smartphone.

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Fair enough, but such is Mr MacCulloch's preference for the heretical over the orthodox that a reader who relied on him alone might struggle at times to work out what the mainstream Christian view was, despite learning lots about those who were against it.

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