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Wright, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Elliott
Truman comes out well in Hamby's beast, without guile, and immune to tain in 1294 A.D. by cardinals of a final summation of the uneasy relation- the bullshit of educators....
...a set of programs killed in an accident...
...bastic...
...As women "get it sermons, programs, classes...
...The spirit of Kierkegaard Abigail McCarthy (Cent...
...What happens to a Vatican II ad- tude, cosmic vanity, the pride of his- An obvious appeal of Temptations viser who quits the priesthood, marries tory and the anger of morality, the of Religion is for recognition of the and for a few seasons is a press cele- last being hostility intended to pro- relative in Christian practice and brity as he explains his disgust with the Church and offers reform ideas...
...advisers from his own rag-tag order term is justified, I think, by his defini- His father, a migrant fruit picker, is of religious irregulars, hermits from the tion of it as "not...
...are self-defeating because they interAmerican novels worth reading be- Davis has not recanted...
...no other man can be other civilization on Earth) lives and taught to throw it...
...of the Return to the Obvious Developed from a series of talks on LANZA DEL VASTO the BBC, the four essays in the new $4.95 at all bookstores book bring into clear focus some of the man-made barriers to the religious SCHOCKEN BOOKS quest...
...But power exercised by a whole man, by Man is beast, but man is spirit...
...The song whispered across the The end is inevitable...
...4, 221 W. Madison St., people an intriguing combination of leagues once again out of social anChicago, IL 60606...
...In short, to Berliners Berrigan to Latin America several years and Reichstag deputies alike, the frat14 June 1974: 340...
...perience and expectation in a commentary on humanity's search for God...
...The girl he forgot to an uncarved block such as Willie, can dawn of consciousness, he saw himself love with words is killed in a ghetto heal by the remarriage of spirit to matdimly as the son-daughter of the father riot...
...Peter Celestin V ) brilliant, even the minor ones (as were it is therefore restrained by the warm who was dragged down from his moun- Melville's ) 14 June 1974: 338 There is the mad Mr...
...Politics in Germany" [22 Feb.], and was an absurd relic of man's barbaric Much of the material is not original...
...Yet Davis avoids both a fallen prey to the temptations of re- ago...
...34, NYC, any fad...
...And in that wholeness, that unity, stirs is used by our institutions with pre- You have written a revolution, and the divine child...
...Time- environmental factors: The Commulegislative needs of senior citizens than saving, "inside" summary of religious and so- nists, both domestic and Russian, cial news . . . a rich source of ideas for are Congressmen...
...frenzy over his departure has faded...
...The Reichstag building had burned For CORRESPONDENCE on 27 February 1933...
...knows is "valuable and liberating...
...useful to state and to Church, and he you have written more than a novel...
...shameful side, and embrace it, and His talent as pacifier is of course Thomas S. Klise, whoever you are, marry it, and become whole again...
...tory as saving . . . knowledge...
...He stops riots, even There is a one-sided, spirit-dominated but our civilization commands a sep- revolutions...
...He takes the symbols, doc- All persons involved in the Western 10025...
...Alfons Beil's commentary letter of 17 and disorderly past . . . it destroyed May...
...By putting the order or in relating to persons in a can literature, if it is not the final question in a religious and sociological world where divinely established insticlimax...
...Willie knelt by the grave and Abused, and Utterly Screwed-Up to a shared , . . commitment to freedom, put his hand on the place where assist him instead of the cardinals in equal justice, and equal opportunity) they had lowered his father's body matters of high policy, and especially Writes Hamby in his closing paragraph: into the soil...
...its part in Reichstag adoption of the Still another survey found that wo- Ermaechtigungsgesetz of 23 March The book is brilliant, humane and vimen think we are in a recession while brant with faith...
...sad pontificate of Pope Willie I re- it reads well aloud-the best test of His intellect seems dim because it is still hearses that of the old hermit Pietro good prose...
...Western ternatural gift, like the fast draw of a civilization (which has supplanted every WALTER A. MILLER, JR...
...On Silence: Reporters have other darlings...
...FROM Principles and Precepts That is precisely what the best theologians do...
...context larger than institutional Ca- tutions, immutable natural laws and tholicism, he reduces the strident tone unchanging dogmas are quaint...
...side of his own nature, the side that blems of the world at some ghetto But of course the exorcism is only is shameful and frightening to him, equivalent of an OK Corral...
...One day he is found dead, with In the late 1960s, the author was Lust for certitude intensifies, accordblood on the hooks and his eyes torn in a mood both creative and bom- ing to Davis, as a form of faith loses out...
...in the matter of bringing immediate "Thrown into partnership by a whim Then he sang the song his father peace and justice to a used, abused, of history, Truman and the liberals co- loved: and utterly screwed-up human race...
...doubts for which there are only tenta- To the Editors: Reference is made to tive answers...
...His socio- ca,led "Christian" political parties in logical framework borrows heavily A survey of policewomen funded by Germany and elsewhere have degraded from Peter Berger and Thomas Luck- the Ford Foundation shows them less the Church and all Catholics, and beaggressive than their male counterparts man, and Mircea Eliade is the source long only in nineteenth century Bavaria, for views on the human origin of so- by half...
...South German voelkisch thuggery and archy into community...
...At the not for long...
...Church concerned chiefly about insti- ty...
...Systems of certitude, he maintains, I admit that there have been a few tutional security...
...The schism, perhaps, is THOMAS S. KLISE a great pitching arm and a talent as nurtured, because it produces men who a peacemaker...
...My son and I read parts of parents came from the four corners of conclave elects him pope...
...Willie turns peacemaker and ter that greatest schism of the west...
...Prussian Junkerism...
...Man cannot be anything but man...
...religious institutions are conservative, religion in working for a new social This may be a turning point in Ameri- defensive and irritable...
...If the man is Charles Davis, he continues his On Love: profession: theology...
...The ability to strike dies not in its institutions but in the Down at the core of being, we are out twenty-seven batters in a row, time hearts and minds of men...
...325 West 93rd Street, Apt...
...who refuse to deal with Davis' argu- there been a personal liberties case of The Christian tradition, the theo- ments-and the one way to deal with equal weight...
...The short it to each other, and like Moby Dick the world and the four races of man...
...dictable unfeeling cruelty...
...However well intentioned, both cial orders...
...existed . . . in a manner which rein- You've got a lot to live, There is to be a day of universal forced each other's tendency toward And Pepsi's got a lot to give...
...Pride Temptations of Religion of his critique at the same time that of history offers in place of faith "some CHARLES DAVIS he buttresses his case against the humanly conceived plan of total hisChurch...
...The Berlin police, Subscriptions to Laughlin by invoking the vow of pover- under the Nazi Polizeipraesident, Wolf ty...
...Gordon C. Zahn's article, "Religion and does bode in the book...
...him...
...love and forgiveness...
...Anger Harper & Row, $4.95 Religion, virtually all religion, Davis of morality turns ritual into ritualism, says, is plagued by temptations...
...Rumors of (Continued from page 323) various Communist actions filtered out ORDINATION of the proletarian sections of Berlin to desire of a religious order not to look WEDDING GIFTS ridiculous, but to rebuke Father Mc- the north and cast...
...Some of us struggle hired gun of peace, whose only wea- jamin exorcises him of this "holy spirit" to become pure spirit, others pure pon is the love of the dead Carolyn in the following words: "I command beast...
...while the Nazis offer: You may cancel on receipt of invoice...
...western hero...
...PETER STEINFELS logian says, mediates for him an "ex- arguments is to intelligently refute SHEILA BROWN perience of transcendent reality" and them-should consider quitting re- P.S.-We hope to issue in the future opens a level of consciousness he ligion...
...Women experi- I agree with these gentlemen that soBrian Tierney, for historical data chalence war as community destroyed...
...the action that teaches religion in Montreal...
...The Gestapo was GRADUATION making wholesale arrests...
...The ethics into legalism and doctrine into ELLIOTT WRIGHT temptations are four: lust for certi- dogmatism...
...1 Year, $14 The Free Father McLaughlin Com- ing presence on Berlin streets the im2 Years, $26 mittee expects to receive support from pression in troubled minds of impendall who protested the exiling of Daniel ing revolution...
...Pope Willie brings but . . . a persuasion built around a in the Silent Servants of the Used, belief in human reason and dignity...
...The subtle creative tension which sand like a sad sigh and then was Willie's defeat is brought about not characterized their relationship was a lost in the constant mourning of by the ancient institutions of Western healthy one...
...Rioters briefly effective, and man will do anyand the courage finally to court this respond to him, as to no other man...
...lenging papal infallibility...
...Any who let Davis' 1933 which gave Hitler broad emergmen do not-surely a fundamental difrejection of clerical vows stand in the ency powers...
...by cardinals of a final summation of the uneasy relation- the bullshit of educators...
...The author's bold use of the latter a drink to a plaster Jesus on the cross...
...Love is the passion that burns and Today, nearly eight years after he renounced his ordination, the Britisher destroys everything...
...time of The Last Western, but I can't Temptations of Religion, where a The vanity of universalizing a cosremember a single one that attempts major purpose is to understand why mology from a past culture hinders as much and accomplishes as much...
...Those who perish rebellion against the "corrupt" struc- are examples he cites of attempts to by the sword will reap the wages of tures of a rigid, remote and arrogant ward off attack and erosion of authorideath, which are sin...
...Adding women to the police if at all...
...of what is humane in this confused Your first issue is waiting...
...Four is the the cardinalate, and finally, in a mo- Moby Dick have I so enjoyed an Amerinumber of wholeness...
...masterfully blending research data, ex- But again be silent to hear yourself...
...the wind...
...Messages of support can be sent to dogma of novelty or the baptizing of ligion...
...He is, how- fere with faith, as trust, openness to tween the time of Moby Dick and the ever, less apocalyptic, gentler in mystery and self-forgetting love...
...The characterizations are united with the rest of his being, and Murrone (Pope St...
...been combined in such a cogent form...
...Secondly, Berlin at this time was per o vaded by an atmosphere of nascent horror...
...In 89 artful in his shirt pocket to show the children open himself to the totality of existence pages, Cardinal Heenan's former as "proof positive" about his hands, and reach unlimited reality and ulti- peritus describes how and why these lest anyone think they had scandalized mate value...
...Who would ever have suspected the Graf von Helldorf, amplified these Commonweal rumors, and reinforced by their mountJesuits might go that far...
...His fast ball with its are easy to govern and exploit: Divide Argus Communications, $8.95 upward breaking curve seems a pre- et impera, applied to the soul...
...And here we have the man named Grayson in the book, and aration, rather than a marriage, of the Western archetype: the lone hero, the he speaks in strange tongues...
...Abruzzi mountains...
...ference in the perception of reality...
...Papal incycles and cars, and is forever quoting His scenario called for Roman Catholic fallibility and biblical fundamentalism a strange Scripture...
...Davis is dependent on others, notably what women made...
...No risk sponsible Germany...
...thing to be more or less than man...
...Impatient, angry that Vatican "the massive social confirmation reThen there is Archbishop Looshagger II renewal was moving at a slow pace, quired to make its content part of of the terrible memory, who steals bi- he sounded like a modern-day Amos...
...civilization, but by that venerated schThe loss of the father forces the ism deep in the heart of western man, The Last Western mother into prostitution, and Willie that Manichean split between the spirit grows up in ghetto poverty, but with and the beast...
...no institustill vexed by the wound which the after time, earns Willie the flashiest tional power, not even institutional separation of opposites has left behind...
...Still, the tradition raises questions and 0000 00000 Leicester, Mass...
...Those to march in a peace demonstration has mate significance to particulars...
...represented to these normally stolid time, they may lead their male colWrite CONTEXT, Dept...
...way of receiving his witness have First, underlying almost every poFinally, the National Council of Senior litical judgment during the waning Citizens reports that Congresswomen years of the Weimar Republic, are two CONTEXT-six-page newsletter for an ecumeni- are significantly more responsive to the cal audience, by Dr...
...temptations corrupt religion...
...trines and even institutions of Chris- religious enterprise should read and Not since Kim Agnew was forbidden tianity seriously without assigning ulti- ponder Temptations of Religion...
...Pitt with hooks out of and beyond the limited order tect patterns of ritual, ethics and docfor hands who carries his Purple Heart under which he lives, in an attempt to trines for their own sakes...
...At the age deadlocked conclave and crowned ship between the Fair Deal and "liberal- of four he climbs a ladder and gives pontiff, bringing with him into the curia ism...
...The creates and saves everything...
...career in the history of baseball...
...Willie's grand- ment of miracle-inspired madness, a can novel...
...His useful- I say to you "Right on, brother, right Willie comes to us already whole, ness results in his rise to the episcopacy, on...
...old Benspirit and the beast...
...force," says the report, "may stimulate men display an unfortunately distorted Seldom, however, has so much well increased attention to ways of avoiding perspective of history in their unqualiviolence and cooling violent situations digested scholarship and fresh insight fied condemnation of the Zentrum for without the resort to use of force...
...Free Father McLaughlin" T-shirts...
...increasingly advanced progressivism...
...And yet to be whole, a man must and a preternatural gift, walking alone you in the name of man to be man find the courage to face the unwanted to meet his destiny and solve the pro...
...Davis defines religion as "the 200 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 10016 drive toward transcendence, the thrust of man out of and beyond himself, Commonweal: 339 thought...
...sky spirit and the mother earth beast, eventually priest...
...Not since the first time I read in the image of that child...
...But Davis, as Temptations of Religion "Be silent much in order to have proves, is a consummate theologian, something to say worth hearing...
...Martin E. Marty...
...taken-for-granted reality...
...Twenty-two issues haunted the bourgeois mind of retogether," as they become more sure yearly for $16.75, by First Class Mail...
Vol. 100 • June 1974 • No. 14
