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Hotc can we write theology otherwise? TOWARD A POLITICIZED PHILIP SCHARPER was born. Centuries of a dominantly legalistic interpretation of Christ's death could never quite obscure the fact...

JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY: BELATED HERO (March 1977)

quicker and quicker into her throat and the breath between them becomes ever more compressed, until we see that the explosion in the mine was nothing compared to the explosion of insight and...

BOOKS (January 1973)

Redressing educational imbalances Educational Commune RAYMOND AND CHARLOTTE KOCH Schocken, $6.95 Learning To Be JOHN MANN The Free Press, $7.95 JOHN DRUSKA A friend, deeply involved in a...

TEN YEARS LATER II: CHANGE WITHIN CHANGE (December 1972)

TEN YEARS LATER - II CHANGE WITHIN CHANGE PHILIP SCHARPER Before the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Commonweal published a series of articles on the general theme of "What the...

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE (November 1969)

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE How 3 should the magazine see itself and its • future role? Former editors reply. who have been around...

Catholics and Public Schools (January 1964)

Shifting Attitudes Catholics and Public Schools PHILIP SCHARPER IN 1848 waves of Nativists swept through Philadephia, leaving in their wake churches burned and convents pillaged or destroyed. The...

Of Note: The Constantinian Legacy (December 1962)

Do you have a friend OF NOTE The Constantinian...

Renewal of the Church (June 1962)

WHAT PREVENTS such resignations in our society is not by any means the more obvious forms of greed but a kind of pragmatic idealism: we assume that if we stay in office we prevent worse things from...

IIThe Nature of the Catholic Response (October 1959)

II-The Nature of the Catholic Response Life in the Living Room by JOHN STANLEY I T'S a pity Graham Greene's "The Living Room" closed after such a short run in New York. There are many...

The Teaching of Religion (April 1959)

AThe 'new way' is really the recovery of a very ancient way The Teaching of Religion by PHILIP SCHARPER C ONTEMPORARY Catholic educators seem to exhibit not only a capacity but an...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1958)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week ELIZABETH BARTELME T HE RED Book of the Persecuted Church. By Albert Galter. Newman. $5.75. An important and terrifying documentation of the Church in...

Spirit of Thomism (August 1957)

SEARCH FOR TRUTH Spirit of Thomism PHILIP SCHARPER WRITING IN 1902, John Dewey defined scholasticism as "any mode of thought characterized by excessive refinement and subtlety; the making...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1956)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...

Books (August 1956)

BOOKS Little Nobleman, Great Saint, Continued Paradox ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA. By Leonard Von Matt and Hugo Rahner, S.J. Translated from the German by John Murray, S.J. Regnery. $6.50. By...

Prophet with Honor (May 1956)

DOSTOEVSKI Prophet with Honor PHILIP SCHARPI:R T HIS YEAR marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of Feodor Dostoevski. At one point, many years ago, the Russians had officially...

Critics' Choices of Catholic Books (February 1956)

Critics' Choices of Catholic Books ALBAN BAER ALL FOUR of these books brilliantly exemplify the Catholic humane tradition at its best. The Church of the Word Incarnarnate: An Essay in...

Scharper, Philip J.

Scharper, Philip Thayer

Scharper, Sergeant W. A.

Scharper, Stephen B

Schary, Dore

Schau, Edward

SchaU, James V.

Schauble, Virginia

Schauffler, Robert Haven

Schebasta, Paul

Schechner, William

Scheele, John Nixon, Jr., Roy