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man no doubt values the integrity of his hatreds, as someone said, and he can find historical evidence for his bigotry and indeed his right to be a bigot. Religion has always been a divisive...
...His heart is in the "truly explosive outburst of creative energy" of the nineteenth century, and he can hardly agree with the late Sigfried Giedion, who decided that "there are whole decades in the second half of the nineteenth century in which no architectural work of any significance is encountered...
...Novels which leave the imagination something to do excel those that minister to passive consumers...
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...We should pay professors," this president observed, "for not writing books...
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...Various aspects of Methodism as a revolutionary force are examined by Semmeh it is seen as a "modernizing" agent for the lower classes by creating "new men capable of exercising individual and collective responsibility at a time of the collapse of a hierarchical and paternalistic society...
...Or as Charles P~guy said, "'Homer is ever new...
...For, as he reminds us, the forces of urban renewal are at work, and if you and I didn't get to San Francisco this summer, we may have missed more than one of the prizes he illustrates...
...He contends that the Methodist revival was "a spiritual Revolution of a progressive and liberal character" and "a counter to revolutionary violence" (pp...
...At the risk of contributing to what the president of England's Society For Latin In The Liturgy calls "that ancient Catholic periodical correspondence column pastime, Last week on the feast of X I went to Y and was appalled to find them doing Z'," I would like to take issue with one of Mr...
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...But men have killed and been killed in the name of politics, not in the name of God...
...Early in this century Hal6vy had asserted that between 1789 and 1815 Methodism had innoculated the English working class against the virus of revolutionary disorder, thereby sparing England the upheaval of the continent...
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...DEWEY D. WALLACE, JR., teaches religion at George Washington University in Washington, D.C...
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...Theology Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., Louis Bower end Dr...
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...However, while the arguments which relate Wesley to these are convincing, I remain unconvinced about the socially liberal consequences of this Wesleyan Arminianism in contrast to Calvinism...
...Semn~el brings out quite startlingly the exte:~t of Wesley's fear of antinomianism ~nd the way his Tory and High-Church Anglican background prevented him, finally, from sympathizing even ~'tih Luther (p...
...Neither does the author have anything memorable to say about the French and Italian contributions, which may well deserve some attention...
...Menendez observes, Ireland would be a united nation if its people were of the same religion...
...John, Paul for 30r with approvals...
...Although he nowhere mentions the name of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the firm responsible for so many of the anonymous curtain-wall skyscrapers of our time, it is obvious that he is no friend of the architecture of anonymity...
...He is bored by the achievements of the generation that was schooled by the Bauhaus ethic of efficiency, and does not hesitate to suggest that there may be a connection between the once respected theories of moral purity and universality and the rise of totalitarianism...
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...Both authors make that point abundantly dear...
...Carl Mclntire has his name spelled two ways in the same paragraph...
...479, Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...Thu~,: Wesley comes out not only Commonweal: 69 an Evangelical Arminian but also nearly a "'Pelagian...
...The thought of Turkish cupolas and Italianate porticoes hanging from Gothic buildings does not in the least embarrass him, and he deserves to be remembered as an affectionate guide to an area that invites a certain sense of humor...
...it was chanted in Gregorian...
...We may catch ourselves thinking of heaven at Mass again...
...Even in this ecumenical age that's an impossibility...
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...Personal growth, not encounter, Quaker Retreat selling...
...Even their hints are Holy Writ for most politicians: when it comes to a clash between canon law and civil law the Church always prevails...
...A socia rite belonging to all the people, to th ages, did not have to be so quickl seized upon...
...Menendez's book suffers from poor proof-reading: the aforementioned Rev...
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...Nor does he take the time to be serious about the assimilation of the Spanish, despite one reference to General Vallejo...
...In the Republic, denominational education to university level is the rule and just recently when some weak-minded persons suggested that perhaps integrated education might be a good thing for a country with Ireland's problems, the bishops led by their Cardinal said no...
...WAYNE ANDREWS is the author of Sieg]ried's Curse: The German Journey /tom Nietzsche to Hesse (Atheneum) and Architecture in New England (Stephen Greene Press...
...but it also continued an earlier Anglican tradition of hierarchy and paternalism, which, as David Little has shown in Religion, Order, and Law, A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England, Calvinism bid fair to disrupt...
...A careful reading of Lotchin will convince almost anyone of the worldly wisdom of one college president who was not in the least concerned when told that a certain department at a certain college was not exactly famous for the books it produced...
...Only the other day the head of government there, Liam Cosgrave, voted against a proposal by his own government legalizing contraceptives...
...For these and related economic and political reasons the Republic of Ireland is quite rightly unacceptable to Ulster Protestants...
...To the Editors: Thank you for Michael True's article, "Latinization of West Roxbury" [July 26...
...If you really want te learn Spanish quickly, fluently and csrrectly, and if you have the courage and stamina for intensive and disciplined study, then come for at least a month to CIDOC in Cuernavaca...
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...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o/ being published...
...Semmel concludes that Methodism was a balanced synthesis of forces making for revolution and order: "The Methodist synthesis, with its combination of the modern and the traditional and its peculiar resolution of the forces making for liberty and order, for revolution and counter-revolution, may be said to be at the heart of the success of Wesley and his Connection as the mediator between the traditional England of the ancien rdgime and that of the modern, industrial nation-state...
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...TEXT BY THOMAS AIDALA Knop[, $12.93 San Francisco 1846-1856 From Hamlet t o C i t y ROGER W. LOTCHIN Oxlord U. Press, $12.50 WAYNE ANDREWS The Age of Nixon may not be quite so reverent as the Age of Harding, but there is no doubt that Thomas Aidala, the architect who has written the text for this impressive collection of photographs by Curt Bruce of the carpenterbuilt houses of San Francisco in the nineteenth century, is something of an iconoclast...
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...Cosgrave silently insisted that the government had a place in every citizen's bedroom, be he Catholic or Protestant, and assertt:l it--silently--in the face of history and his countrymen...
...From the" moment the mail arrived, both eager residents and miners temporarily returned besieged the post office...
...nothing is as old as yesterday's newspaper...
...That Methodism enabled England to avoid revolution is the measure not only of its success as a popular movement but also of its deep conservatism as a political force, i.e., its Anglican heritage, and although Semreel wants to downplay the revolutionary significance of the remnants of the older Dissent, it was in that ambience that radicalism best flourished...
...Surprisingly, that may not be a utopian vision: some voices out of Protestant Ulster are urging something like it...
...Who knows...
...Department of The~94 y, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C...
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...And there's Article 40 which is the basis for censorship...
...He is aware of the importance in 1974 of women's rights...
...To Aidala there is something delightful in the spectacle of a city like San Francisco, where maids, their fortunes built on silver speculations, were not above entertaining their former mistresses at six-course dinners...
...Its capitalists are dreadful human beings in every area of life, from love to politics...
...True contends, will not ultimately help...
...It was the Calvinist emphasis on imputed righteousness and predestination which gave rise to that antinomian enthusiasm which was by Wesley and his Anglican critics alike seen as the greatest threat to public order...
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...Semmel previously edited a reprint of Hal6vy's seminal essay The Birth o/ Methodism in England, preceding it with an illuminating analysis of Hal6vy's intellectual milieu...
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...That, for love of those who thirst after the Roman Rite, we do ;is the Sovereign Pontiff is asking...
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...Both parts of Ireland are economic appendages of Britain...
...But these are favors we might ask, not of the authors of a book, but of the compiler of a doctoral dissertation...
...Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971...
...Think of the trouble we'd be in for if the doctrine of publish or perish were actually enforced...
...He uncovers an ambivalence in Methodism: a spiritual and social revolution of a liberal character which functioned significantly in the "modernization" of the English working class, its implications for politics were nonetheless pointedly avoided because of the conservatism of its leadership (following Wesley) and its dynamism channeled into such other directions as foreign missions...
...Semmel synthesizes aspects of these wider problems by probing into the thought of Wesley and Methodism in its formative years, carefully analyzing the social significance of theological doctrines...
...It resembles New Left advocacy journalism...
...The monks there now have embraced Paul VI's missal specifically at his request so that a fitting example for the whole world to draw upon be worked out...
...Pius X, Valais and its ancien regim:, as Mr...
...This important book combines several knotty historiographical concerns which have long exercised historians by interweaving Eli Hal6vy's famous thesis about Methodism warding off revolution in England with the more recent problems of the relationship of Evangelical Protestantism to the Enlightenment and to social reform...
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...The Methodist Revolution BERNARD SEMMEL Basic Books, $10.95 DEWEY D. WALLACE, JR...
...To the Editors: Because Walter A. Miller praised it [June 14] and the ad on the back page megaphoned its glories, I wrote that same day for a copy of The Last We::tern by Thomas S. Klise...
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...A baptism need not be rushed There was time to point out the lacl of fairness in the situation...
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...and its Texans are like wanton boys who kill people for sport...
...Turning to a more significant matter, Semmel, contrary to much recent writing about Wesley which has emphasized his connection with Reformation theology, marshals a strong case for the importance to him of the High Anglican anti-Calvinist tradition on the one hand and the Enlightenment on the other...
...We have had one of the options forced upon us in this counlry, and the Missal itself denied...
...he also has succeeded in avoiding answering nearly every question one would like to ask about the early days of San Francisco...
...JOSEPH O'CONNOR Nine Left Novels Minneapolis, Minn...
...Further, several recent authors have sought to qualify the usual assumptions about "conservative" and "liberal" in the eighteenth-century by emphasizing the Colonial American Great Awakening as a vehicle of social protest and as related to the Enlightenment in complex ways (Alan Heimert's Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolu18 October 1974:68 tion would be a good example of this, as would the writings of William McLoughlin on Isaac Backus...
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...Many have disagreed with Hal6vy since his views were first broached, hut meanwhile the wider relationship of evangelicalism to social reform has been investigated, for both Britain and America, in such books as Charles I. Foster's An Errand of Mercy, Timothy L. Smith's Revivalism and Social Reform, and Raymond G. Cowherd's The Politics of English Dissent, to mention but a few...
...But shortly before this he informs us that "in the streets, boys flew kites...
...It displayed the temper of the times, a vehicle of evil as of good...
...Really, it would be a most welcome relief from what we've got...
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...18-19, 94, 12) that the modernizing effects of Methodism are the results of its Arminian content...
...He takes theological ideas seriously, seeking to trace social effects to doctrinal distinctions, so that his discussions of the social significance of the Wesleyan revival and of such doctrines as Perfectionism are excellent...
...18 October 1974:70 It was a young man's act, full of generosity...
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...Menendez, for example, examines the Republic's Constitution--a fine nonsectarian document until it comes to Article 41 which imposes "Catholic morality on the non-Catholic sector of population...
...Religion has always been a divisive force in Ireland...
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...The poor suffer and the poor die in the battle for Ireland's future...
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...But neither will more balloons and beer-glass Ma.~ses...
...For example, he gives us next to no information on the money makers of the city, and William C. Ralstom, the backer of the first Palace Hotel, is not even mentioned, although he was on the scene by 1854...
...Mark Harris' Killing Everybody, because of the killing of the Kennedys, the shooting of George Wallace, and the murders of Lt...
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...10-12 in a discussion of works, justification, and free will he confuses salvation and justification, misleadingly suggest~ that Calvinist predestination obviates striving after holiness of life, and erroneously refers to Cranmer as an uplzolder of free will against Luther and Calvin...
...Will more of what put us where we are get us out again...
...Perhaps the Methodist revival needs to be seen then as a theologically more "liberal" but socially more "conservative" version of the earlier Puritan ferment, less radical precisely where it An Offer You Can Refuse "Give away what you have . . . and come follow me," Jesus said...
...In the very short space at his command he is most informative on nearly every style the carpenters favored, ranging from the earliest houses--"as unassuming as the dented desires of those who did not float on the golden bubble of their ambition"--to more serious efforts, such as the Italianate Henry Casebolt house of 1865-66, or Joseph A. Leonard's Vedanta Temple...
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...both Wesleyan Arminianism and Perfectionism are asserted to have given greater autonomy to the individual, and opened up to him the vista of future possibilities...
...This novel resembles one of a dozen l've read the last five years that tried hard to be up-to-date: Lloyd Zimpel's Meeting the Bear, around the burnings by blacks in 1963 (1971...
...Fact, s obediens usque ad mortern, mortem ~rucis...
...That the attempt, for all its well-argued and significant conclusions, is far from flawless is an indication of the difficulty of the task...
...One of these--we must assume it was written as a dissertation--is Roger Lotchin's study of the first ten years of San Francisco, Professor Lotchin has all the diligence of a devout vacuum cleaner...
...MacEoin's words) and that divorce will never be permitted while Ireland has a Catholic majority...
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...These are minor shortcomings...
...There are dissertations which might well be preserved on microfilm rather than taking their place on library shelves...
...If you try too hard to be new, you grow old-fashioned overnight...
...Minority peo]~les from Brazil to Vietnam are never cruel and never invade their neighbol~, l'm curious as to why an intelligent and hard-working author turns out paper-thin characters in a cardboard world...
...Six weekends, November-April...
...Both authors agree that the Republic is a near-theocratic state...
...If in London and Paris, why not here...
...The alternative obviously is a pluralist society and a secular state--with politics and religion rigidly separated...
...Wesleyan Methodism may indeed have been a factor in the modernization of the English workers and their transition to life in an advanced industrial society...
...It is part of Semmel's intent to reverse the view which sees Calvinism as the force ushering in the modern by breaking down tradition and to give that place instead to the Methodist revival: thus he implies (pp...
...To put the whole blame on religion is to ignore the British role, curiously and foolishly colonial even to this day, which exploited religion in the name of Empire even as it did in India and Palestine and much later in Cyprus...
...O 0 | Michael Novak ( C o n t . ) had not too swiftly accepted it as Cath olic...
...Religious, Xmas, Vatican City stamps...
...True's points...
...Women," he tells us, "made up a large proportion of the milliners and boarding house operators in 1857-58...
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...Martin B. Hellriegel, an American pioneer of liturgy, now pinpoints "optionalism" as "one of the great diseases of the 20th century...
...Paul Minear are three of the visiting professors for the Spring Term, 1975, Department of Theology, Catholic University, Washington, D,C...
...By a series of options, the new Roman Missal permits one to dispense with the new Roman Missal...
...JAMES C. WHITE Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Let us try the same...
...Calley's company in Vietnam (1973...
...asm and antinomianism, both of which still echoed the disruptions of the Puritan Revolution...
...MacEoin describes the Republic as a "cryptotheocracy," but on his own accumulation of facts there is nothing "crypto" about it at all: it's as near a theocracy as makes no difference...
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...It may be the final solution of the Irish Question...
...MacEoin says that Cardinal Conway, Primate of All Ireland, declared in 1972 that the majority has the right "to prevent the minority from doing things their conscience allows" (Mr...
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...MacEoin says that "some 2,500 foreign corporations dominate the 'growth sector' of Ireland, north and south . . . . " Foreign capital pours in and Irishmen pour out because "the economy remains incapable of providing employment to all the citizens, and concentration of capital in technologically sophisticated activities with low labor content makes the worker ever more marginal...
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...And while it is true that the murder of the journalist James King of William is not overlooked, the Vigilante movement and other signs of unrest are passed over as quickly as possible in favor of what Lotchin takes to be local color...
...They have endured portions of the new missal that really are for parish use, (the oratio futelium, or the enlarged lectionary aimed at the Never-But-On-Sunday goers for exampie), so that we might reap the benefits...
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...All of the:;e now read like faded, yellow newspapers...
...MacEoin errs in some details such as calling Paisley a Presbyterian minister--he founded his own church and called it the Free Presbyterian Church of Ireland--and confuses Henry II, the monarch who tangled with Becket, and Richard II, who lost his crown to Bolingbroke...
...A priest told us that he attended one in Westminster Cathedral, London, on a Saturday...
...It is clear that at some point the Irish people themselves must resolve their problems if the island is to have peace and prosperity...
...its Protestant ministers and cardinals are molded after a Billy Graham more evil than the Billy Graham who is silent on Nixon's crimes...
...There are several things in this novel that I didn't like...
...171) This book has many strengths: Semmel is self-conscious about method, careful in his use of evidence, and thorough in his analysis of concepts...
...There are occasions where one might disagree with the t~eologieal analysis, e.g., on pp...
...Menendez says, and I have no evidence to dispute him, that "one can search in vain for Zola, Anatole France, Voltaire, Kant, Gide, Sartre, Bergson, Gibbon, Paine, Balzac, Hugo and many other literary luminaries in Irish public libraries...
...Oberster, S.M., Reverend PatrickL.Tonry, S.M, Director of Vocations, 4301 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21210 was less Calvinistic...
...Yet in spite of such revolutionary influence, Methodism was rendered politically innocuous by a leadership which feared the specters of enthusi0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS SEAN CRONIN, a native of Ireland, is a New Jersey journalist...
...24 Australian Xmes stamps 1957 thru 1972 plus Rwandaise Popes Pius Xl, XII...
...Bishops in Ireland speak in loud whispers...
...Might I suggest that we simply be obedient for a change...
...The Great Houses o f San Francisco PHOTOGRAPHS BY CURT BRUCE...
...This one blunted my imagination...
...Aidala and Bruce have not dated each and every offering or gone into detail concerning the history of real estate developments...
...The young may who accepts this offer and becomes a Marianist brother or priest will find a rewarding life in a'religious community...
...But the opposite can be argued: while ideally Arminianism with its emphasis on freedom ought to have made for that freedom in the political sphere and Calvinism with its determinism buttressed the traditional order, in fact, Arminianism had long been the theology of Tory Anglicanism and was later, as in colonial New England, the theologically "liberal" outlook of social "conservatives" who decried the revivalism of the Calvinists, whereas Calvinism was the theology of dissenting groups in old and New England with a revolutionary potential which the seventeenth-century had unmistakably revealed...
...Entertaining he may be, but he is also performing a public service...
...Alan Lelchuk's American Mischief, on the student-radicals who occupied Columbia, Harvard, and a dozen universities in France in 1969-1973...
...Methodist theology sought to avoid these pitfalls by emphasizing disciplined Christian living and rejecting the Calvinistic tenets of predestination and imputed righteousness...
...It is surely overdue...
...We are told that "even those who had no one to greet hoped for a letter...
...Dora Cozien, when repeatedly asked by visitors why the liturgy of Solesmes was so beautiful, would simply answer, "We do what it says in the book...
...No doubt there are earnest people who will complain that Messrs...
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...We were told, though I didn't attempt to verify this, that most churches in Paris provide Latin Mass on Sunday...
...He probably put back the cause of Irish unity at least 50 years...
Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 3
