This special issue of Theology celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the publication of William Temple’s wartime Penguin paperback Christianity and Social Order. It was published in the year that he became Archbishop of Canterbury, having been Archbishop of York for the previous 13 years, and just two years before his death in 1944, aged just 63. This extraordinary little book is written in pellucid and accessible prose and quickly sold 139,000 copies despite its wartime brown-paper cover. Once post-war rationing had ended, Penguin reprinted it in 1956 as a classic Pelican Book with its ubiquitous blue and white cover, together with the following explanation on its front inside cover:

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本期神学特刊庆祝威廉坦普尔战时企鹅平装本《基督教与社会秩序》出版八十周年。这本书出版于他成为坎特伯雷大主教的那一年，在过去的 13 年里，他一直担任约克大主教，而在他于 1944 年去世前两年，年仅 63 岁。这本非凡的小书以清晰易懂的散文写成，而且尽管它是战时的牛皮纸封面，但很快就卖出了 139,000 份。战后配给结束后，企鹅出版社于 1956 年将其重新印刷为经典的鹈鹕书，其蓝白相间的封面无处不在，并在封面内封面上附有以下说明：