THESE THREE: FAITH, HOPE AND DEATH:
Finn, James
implication, the moral issues-are too. The surgeons among them. Every time George Segal's eyes roll back, are all men whose only sensitivities are in their hands. signaling...
...What reader of past Recently published: experience have we here...
...by the foremost overcome by assimilation...
...It strength of socialist theory is that it Henri J. M. Nouwen occurred in the fifties and sixties...
...Left, his conversion to a "truly radical" hope, for he represents that unsatisfied, 336 pages Cloth $6.50 -i.e., radical-liberal-stance, and the questing, probing, pushing for what Paper $3.50 gathering of "the remnant of the rem- politics should provide...
...as little as they about contemporary Each of his real discoveries and Catholicism...
...As long as there are people like HEALING with SDS and his fight with the New Harrington there is ground for political Francis MacNutt, O.P...
...that the political parts...
...time and place that was Bohemia in dedicate himself to a possibility that those days that is both persuasive and will probably not be realized in the moving...
...Described thin gruel...
...young man from the provinces comes The Other America still lives and, for His experience, he thinks, simply anticito the big city and achieves success, a Harrington, provides the bases for pated that of many Catholics...
...What intellectual Catholics are attempting to do is to reconstruct amid the various pluralisms of our time a statement that will communicate to themselves and others what the gospel-community is today, and how that community continues to be directed by the Gospel...
...Despite the fact that recent decades and what is likely to liefs and visions and dreams and hope dreams of the '60s have soured...
...and of hope...
...It is a book devoted is here that Harrington is most helpful, tell us what happened to Catholicism in to death and hope...
...Max Schachtman, one of his mentors Harringto is best known, probably, and a dedicated socialist...
...We are not, for the Edited by Herbert G. May and most part, attempting to swim back to Bruce M. Metzger the ahistorical orthodoxy which we once regarded-and Harrington still doesas Catholicism proper...
...The provides him with tools of analysis and 64 pages Cloth $3.50 thesis, starkly stated, is this: "increases allows him to expose methodically the Paper $1.75 in quantity eventually mean a change frequently crushing inequities of our in quality, . . . a Bohemia that enrolls society...
...The death of be- most useful...
...46556 courageous path through the years of in order...
...which Catholics should have been able THE NEW OXFORD ANNOTATED to cope with gradually, generation by BIBLE WITH THE APOCRYPHA generation, swept over us suddenly, un- An ecumenical study Bible...
...The changes maps with index...
...he has again passed out from the pain of having to And so forth...
...After read- New Left and "radical" types in 1968, ing this section several times I am when Harrington had learned to recogOut of finally persuaded-I think completely nize the real political difference be-that Harrington is right...
...But Harrington, born into an Irish mas for a while and listen to their inevitably he is changed...
...They did, and discovered that values, cultural attitudes, opinions and western town, has been, he writes, "on they could no longer hear the voice of beliefs he brought with him have been terms of some familiarity with the re- God within themselves...
...The masses THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF are to follow a timorous, shamefaced THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH and hypocritical minority...
...The "death thinking because it was the greatest 20 September 1974: 504 single educational exercise in modern times...
...A house of cards theory...
...fragile thing...
...they were taught to hear prior to Vatican through which is reflected some of the ring hollow...
...The Council wrought couple of decades...
...Many of the Catholic middle-class family in a Mid- hearts...
...for example, the value of being inclusive, to what the refusal to recognize real differences engages and stimulates Harrington both between Eisenhower and Stevenson, or emotionally and intellectually...
...But not quite...
...minority, who, if past experience is any OXFORD BIBLE ATLAS Second Edition guide, are the precursors of the masses Edited by Herbert G. May -by a shamefaced, hypocritical Catho- 144 pages Cloth...
...It is not a small argument to century-if indeed, ever...
...It is Harring- "Still, there was not-there is not-a authority on the healing ton's elaboration of that thesis and his single power that incarnates the socialministry in the Roman strongly evocative description of the ist ideal, and it is difficult for a man to Catholic Church today...
...Bohemia has been first...
...It could, and and properly so as the most articulate at this point I think it does, apply to exponent of democratic socialism in Harrington...
...F L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone I do not mean to diminish Harring- 1,552 pages $35.00 ton's own experience, or to exchange religious graffiti-"God is dead" vs...
...The clear implication be when, long ago, it glimmered so crisis of religion today is, surprisingly, in Harrington's statement is that prior seductively in the distance...
...It tional insight...
...Not bloody Second Edition...
...I do not in people, a highly uncertain social comrades of troubled times have de- think he is a sound guide on either issue theory and the future...
...But the perception and imThe first comprehensive a good portion of a generation is no aginative grasp of those inequities come Catholic book on healing longer a Bohemia...
...53/4 x8518" had long supported us, and left most of 08900A...
...Dis- incorporates the results of the covered also that they would be sup- latest biblical scholarship and the ported by the majority of the bishops most recent archaeological disgathered there...
...creasingly withdrawn from areas of life the significant changes it did in our As we finish Harrington's book and which it once dominated...
...All have lesser stature...
...Revised by likely...
...The death tween electing Humphrey or Nixon...
...He misunderstands signifi- to Vatican II Catholics did hear the from the treacherous vantage point of cant events, and cliches that he would voice of God within themselves...
...Solitude of Bohemia, frequently and prematurely As Harrington employs it the real proclaimed, has finally taken place...
...Cloth (Shown...
...He has suc- on the counter as if they should ring most Catholics, including Harrington, ceeded in using his life as a prism as the real right thing...
...dercut the familiar orthodoxies which 1,936 pages plus maps...
...transformed or discarded...
...sources at its disposal...
...And it was so not because of Pope John's invocations, but because it brought together many people who Core anions for thought they were pursuing their scholarly and theological studies in relative isolation...
...The same kind of faulty analysis here and there I can testify to the ac- and judgment were taken over by many curacy of his observation...
...20 September 1974: 506...
...that the Left Harrington was taught by Jesuits a instructive and provocative book, in has, once again, splintered its forces Catholicism that depended upon a subsome respects most instructive and pro- and scattered the always meager re- tle, rationalist theory of interlocking vocative where it is most disappointing...
...John "told his flock to forget the dogto know the great and near great...
...Every time George Segal's eyes roll back, are all men whose only sensitivities are in their hands...
...And much ligious, political and cultural crises of The misconceptions packed in that of what he has gained, often at great age...
...political insights was shared, to some To pass from Harrington's discussion degree, by people with non-Marxist of the death of God to his discussion of views...
...Brought together in Rome, they suddenly discovered they were en- Bible study gaged in a large-scale collective effort This thoroughly updated edition pointed in the same direction...
...lives in intimacy, that moral outrage ago and he has been "out of the The shape of the book is classic...
...It all Above all this autobiographical account will to tackle real, discernible social hung together-or, removing a single of one man's active participation in problems has dwindled-despite all card, it all fell apart...
...Pope measure of fame and power, and comes future political plans...
...signaling the onset of another of his attacks, one can't The cop guarding Harry reads comic books and does help wondering whether the problem isn't really that clownish double takes when Harry escapes his custody...
...Harrington brings to the As Harrington describes his initiation service of that ideal a generosity of into Marxist theory, his participation in spirit, a vision, dedication and a moral the civil rights movement, his break energy...
...For this new edition the latest archaeological advances have been After praising two Catholic philoso- considered in revising the 26 fullphers who are attempting to do just color maps, the extensive geothat, saying they were "at least quite graphical and historical survey, serious in attempting to believe under and the article on archaeology and impossible theological conditions," Har- the Bible...
...I!V .1-r "God lives...
...9.95 lical atheism...
...It is also an fected to conservatism...
...The precise and accurate phrase is most significant events of the last In the modern world religion has in- Michael Novak's...
...America today...
...And, not to nant" into the new Democratic Socialist be irretrievably solemn, I recall that From your bookstore, or Organizing Committee-and as one this is not represented as his last word AVE MARIA PRESS follows his frequently lonely, often and that further reconsiderations will be NOTRE DAME, IND...
...A which surged through and gave life to Church for more than twenty years...
...The claim holds for the last two brief thesis are not easy to discuss both risk and cost, is not what it seemed to of this trinity, but Harrington on the briefly and fairly...
...This sudden discovery coveries...
...With a comprehensive rington passes on to others: "More gazetteer, and many superb phototimorous people responded-I speak graphs, including some taken in now of a tiny, but quite influential, the Holy Land in 1973...
...THESE THREE: FAITH, HOPE AND DEATH JAMES FINN Fragments of a Century the account of his life to date we know of God" has been proclaimed with deep MICHAEL HARRINGTON -as he does-that never again will the seriousness by great figures like Nietzenergies be so great, the expectations so sche, and it has been celebrated in our Saturday Review Press, $9.95 high, the over-arching theories so grand, time by theologians of considerably and the certainties so sure...
...a wind-up toy as Harry is, it's impossible to choose COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...The same could be said, of the "death of Bohemia" is to pass from course, about his obfuscations and what seems to be written dutifully, for early wrong judgments...
...What middle age, the journey of this par- disdain in political discussion are, in they actually heard, however, was the ticular young man takes on more than his comments on Catholicism, thrown voice of the "ahistorical orthodoxy" merely personal interest...
...His book on Socialism As I noted earlier, Harrington's book develops more fully, more theoretically, is a.story of the loss of faith, of death what be discusses here in personal terms...
...Since everyone else in the film is as much act in this movie...
...BOOKS...
...I wish only to point out that Harrington was less a precursor XFORD of those who detached themselves I11NIV1=IWSl'TY PRESS 200'1 M.0...
...1001 from the Church after Vatican II than Commonweal: 505 he is the tail end of a tradition that tertain the notion that the best of HarThree meditations on includes figures such as James T. Farrell ringon is not in the theories he advothe Christian life and Mary McCarthy-and can tell us cates but in the man himself...
...For Harrington some of the great social movements of these truths with which Harrington that card was removed twenty years our time is poignant...
...This is Harmake and it tells us much about the rington in the course of talking about messy, disheveled present...
...Harrington recapitulates Fragments of a Century is a dis- been reduced to the measure of these this familiar story but brings no additurbing book...
...As Michael Harrington sad, dispiriting times...
...The many reading and burst the bonds of the ahistorical ortho- study helps include introductions, doxy within which Catholicism had for page-for-page annotations, supplementary articles, and full color centuries been contained...
...Ycrk...
...They don't...
...Insofar as that hope is It is somewhat disturbing to find that lodged in the socialist ideal that Harthe skeleton sketched out here is at least rington sketches it must be, indeed, a as inviting as the fleshed-out version...
...II...
...After all, Harrington is only those activities, one can at least en- half way, mid-way into the dark woods...
...12.50 us floundering...
...that happen in the near future...
...As one Kennedy and Nixon and the belittling who passed through many of the scenes of the political value of the labor moveHarrington depicts and who lingered ment...
...But he does purport to no doubt intended...
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