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in religion because God . . . does not oppose the individual as others do." But he also accepted the general intellectual convention that "what characterizes modern life is the failure of...
...Jacobsen's poetry is not limited or easily categorized, however...
...In the Preface, Jones claims that the charismatic renewal of the church is "the movement that can renew the churches, if they are open to it...
...Paul MJnear are three of the vls~fing professors for the Spring Term, 1975, Department of Theology, Catholic University, Washington, D.C...
...Would I be writing about my "sisters" and their agon in the supermarket, their death by water in the washing machine...
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...Having read Filled With New Wine I can report that my prejudgments of the book were absolutely right--almost...
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...Just as she avoids the temptation to make a prose case, so Swenson overcomes the problems of much contemporary poetry...
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...Although it is true that Swenson's poems grow from the matrix of experiences dealt with by women's liberation groups, she has none of the strident polemics that make many of us wince against the truths proclaimed...
...Lorenz views himself as a prophet crying in the wilderness...
...Not every poem in this volume is an unqualified success, but An Attic o~ Ideals is much more than promising...
...CLAIRE HAHN is all assistant professor in the English Department at Fordham University...
...It is not her womanness that qualifies her for, or disqualifies her from, the priesthood: it is the grace that abounds, the call, the quality of the spirit...
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...In his attempt to undercut the presumptions of the behavioralists who, he asserts quite correctly, overestimate the malleability and plasticity of human beings operating, as they do, from a belief in man as a tabula rasa, Lorenz has gone completely in the other direction...
...The range of her subject matter is wide and her vision often wryly compassionate...
...And Lorenz d o e s n ' t . . , not quite...
...Society will somehow rid itself of or protect itself from "deviants...
...She is a brilliant technician capable of fascinating the reader with rhythm and texture, of lulling him to sensuous rest by the purest poetry Then she abruptly catches him by the throat with the revelation of some terrifying primal truth...
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...Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins KONRAD LORENZ Harcourt Bruce, $4.95 JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Konrad Lorenz is one of the founding fathers of the science of ethology, the study of animal behavior...
...He regarded Norman O. Brown and Herbert Marcuse as having made great contributions to human self-understanding but as faithless to their own insights when they asserted that men could live without repression...
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...Jones exercises in avoiding an excessive concentration on glossolalia must be applauded...
...His earlier works---especially The Structure o/ Evil--had sought to absorb Freudian-induced pessimism about human nature back into the Enlightenment tradition and to replace the tyranny of instinct with belief in the social origins of anti-social behavior, but in his later years he became somewhat less optimistic...
...Yet I could easily ignore the marginal "crazies" and merely grumble to myself every time I heard of some .newlyformed charismatic prayer group, until the famous Notre Dame convention that drew some 30,000 Catholic Pentecostals and the enthusiastic endorsement of none other than Cardinal Suenens...
...It is depressing when a distinguished scientist engages in the systematic vulgarization of his own work, but this is precisely what Lorenz is guilty of when he attempts to elucidate complex human systems with analogies to malignant tumors, the wings of the Argus cock, and the treatment of exophthalmic goiters...
...On the one hand, I had little desire to know more about charismatics than I already did...
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...It does, however, hint that although charismatics are currently "toning down their sense of uniqueness," in actuality they are engaging in a waiting game, fervently hoping that we will become like them before their enthusiasm fizzles out...
...Apparently Lorenz believes that scientists are sufficiently removed from the troubles of their times to stand apart from events and to give a clear, "objective" analysis...
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...If my memory of ancient Greek history is accurate, th ~ . Delphic oracle engaged in similar unintelligible utterings which were dutifully translated into common parlance by one gifted in the ways of interpreting...
...The most commonplace object elicits her meditative attention...
...For if the rest of us fail to understand and accept the charismatic, what can we possibly expect...
...But the more intensely subjective the experience, the more precise and delicate must be the artist's control...
...It becomes a matter of simple "logic" for the reader to wind up agreeing with Lorenz that "genetic decay" will usher in "the apocalypse in a particularly horrible form...
...In this, as in other "gifts of the Spirit," charismatics emulate the first Pentecost as it is related in the New Testament...
...Granted, charismatic glossolalists are not, because they are what they are, any more psychologically unbalanced than the rest of us...
...Lorenz may distinguish, however fuzzily, between "criminality" and "youth rebellion," but many who accept his explanation are likely to make no such distinctions--particularly if they share with Lorenz a view of man as homo homini lupus, man as a predator on his fellows...
...Lorenz mentions an adolescent German who killed his grandmother over some minor offense...
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...he is also reasonable, honest and, up to a point, open to criticism and disagreement...
...He believes that criminal behavior rests on the "genetic defects of innate social behavior patterns and inhibitions . . . . " Terrible damage has been done, he avers, by the acceptance of the lunatic notion that "all men are born equal" (which Lorenz has incorrectly interpreted to mean "all men are identical to one another...
...Holiness in the end will win what tactics may not...
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...I cannot bless that g~een, that grin...
...The poem coneludes with a stunning act of faith: Welcome...
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...In one splendid and terrifying sequence of three brief poems Swenson takes us to a nursing home...
...It is precisely in the formal control this artist is able to maintain as she deals with painful material that her success lies...
...Rather it creates a coherence that is not partisan, not debatable...
...And these qualities, when combined with an informative style, make Filled With New Wine enjoyable reading...
...However, there are two points Dr...
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...Above all, Becket realized that faith is a gift of grace...
...Lorenz is weak on what the doctor should prescribe but he leaves little doubt as to who the doctor ought to be--namely, the scientist: "It is up to the scientists to find means of checking this diabolical oscillation...
...Unable to see how the therapeutic revolution could affect the great masses of humanity, he accepted Freud's statement that "Men are doomed to live in an overwhelmingly tragic and demonic world...
...And renewal "programs imposed from above will not invigorate the life of the congregation...
...Yet Jones the charismatic slips in the ageold "savior complex: . . . . In weighing the charismatic movement . . . one ought to take off his shoes, for one is on holy ground--looking at something that lies at the heart of God's vision 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS VICTOR FERKISS teaches in the Department of Government at Georgetown University...
...Is fear an instinct...
...The surface of her poems is calm, deceptively so...
...Jones makes with which I must take 29 November 1974:218 issue...
...But there is also another form of symbolism: not of the body but of the spirit...
...Yet it was an agony from which he was unable to recoil, since he knew it was his calling...
...To include a discourse on youth rebellion within the context of a discussion on the 'sin' of genetic decay is to prejudice that discussion and to hold it against youthful protest...
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...She is a "shade seller...
...Where is the doctor who will "cure" us...
...But she is not without hope for this world...
...Jacobsen's "The Wild Parrots of Bloody Bay," "The Foreign Lands," "Future Green," are not Lawrentian footnotes or echoes but she shares with him the authoritative power of expressing an acute perception of other modes of existence than the human...
...Cardinal Suenens has announced he will only accept speaking engagements that permit him to hold forth on Pentecostalism, and charismatic Catholics in the Twin Cities have circulated a list of "Spirit and non-Spirit" priests...
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...Konrad Lorenz should ask himself: how would a government which adopted my view of 'genetic decay' treat youthful offenders...
...What, given Lorenz's analysis of the problems, is to be done...
...This young man, he writes, "was, of course, mentally deficient...
...If people and societies are constituted, at least in part, by the beliefs and concepts they adopt, the scientific expert should be extraordinarily responsible in advancing certain propositions because these propositions, once advanced, become a part of the reality they purport to 'describe' or explain...
...Bihar IN ONE OF INDIA'S hardest hit regions a Carmelite convent seeks help for the children of the poor Santhal tribes they are feeding, clothing and educating in their primary school They are hard hit by the inflation and food shortages...
...The most ominous implications of Lorenz's book lie in his section on the 'sin' of genetic decay...
...What emerges from Lorenz's discussion of each of these 'sins' is largely an inchoate set of unsubstantiated generalizations all of which serve to condemn modern, urban society and to celebrate the putative 'good old days' of the pastoral past...
...This "natural" aggressivity was implicated in all manner of destructive behavior, from two-person fights to international wars...
...Theology Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., Louis Bouyer and Dr...
...Jones must be credited, though, for appreciating the inherent obsolescence of the charismatic movement...
...It makes a small world but does not try to change the large world...
...Jones argues, Christians are alienated from the church...
...Holiness is no respecter of sex...
...Yet, as Father Anthony Archer recently wrote in the English Dominican monthly New Blackfriars: "There could hardly be a neater way of distinguishing a group from wider society or from their coreligionists . . . . Glossolalia can be produced with great ease . . . . Some instruction is usually given ranging from the laconic direction to just make sounds and the Lord will take over, to the actual suggestion of the syllables to repeat until the Lord does take over...
...But her poems discover again that poetry is not the prisoner of its themes...
...In all fairness, the care Dr...
...Lorenz, I fear, fails to recognize the retrogressive ideologies and policies his arguments logically feed...
...Glossolalia means just what the interpreters choose it to mean...
...What methods will this doctor employ-therapy, radical surgery...
...It simply isn't particularly helpful to label the problems of modern civilization "pathological...
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...They are women and they are also poets...
...Yet he still held out hope that religion could give meaning to life, and advised that mankind should wait "in a condition of openness toward miracle and mystery _9 . . awe-filled creatures trying to live in harmony with the rest of creation...
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...A human God could not be everything at once, a member of every race, of every time, of every social class, of both sexes...
...He noted with ironic satisfaction my news that a noted sociologist of our acquaintance was now publicly proclaiming the importance of values to the social sciences, a position Becker had throughout his life advocated to his own peril...
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...But why is it always necessary that renewal be either hierarchically ordained and thus irrelevant, or initiated at the grassroots as a return to a nascent Christianity, oftentimes ignoring history as well as the present...
...It offers respite, a place of perspective...
...We talked of the terrible agony even the experienced writer undergoes in trying to say what he means as he envisions it...
...It testifies to a journey undertaken but never completely finished...
...For Lorenz, the "natural sense of justice" seems roughly coterminous with a demand for law and order and an assertion of the primacy of the group...
...it is an ably written and ostensibly balanced presentation...
...The media have sufficiently hyped tongue-speaking so that most people are at least perplexed if not mildly irritated...
...One heralded the book as "one of the sanest and most honest presentations' of charismatic revival I have yet encountered," while the other assured, "Exactly the balanced and informative book many are looking for at this time...
...Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress since 1971, prize-winning short story writer, and drama critic, Josephine Jacobsen's voice is assured and quiet...
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...His analysis of the present rests both on this image of a better society (the romanticized past) and on a simplistic biologism...
...Whence arises this fear...
...A reader steps gratefully into that shade...
...And the sun also rises...
...however, in the next paragraph he begins with the words: "Countless young people are hostile to modern society and to their parents...
...The Denial o[ Death is thus both a great and an imperfect book...
...But he also accepted the general intellectual convention that "what characterizes modern life is the failure of all traditional immortality ideologies to absorb and quicken man's hunger for self-perpetuation and heroism," and he found in Kierkegaard's failure to live up to the implications of his own ideal of the Knight of Faith a source of discouragement...
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...Perhaps the interpretation we are called upon to give to God's choice is that a transformation wrought in the male more sharply revealed the impact of divine life in the actual conditions of history...
...Most importantly: Lorenz refuses to recognize the policies towards persons his theory implicitly supports...
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...He, together with Karl van Frisch and Nikolaas Tinbergen, received the 1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering efforts in this field...
...The Denial o[ Death is the final building block in Becker's offering and it is a worthy one, a moving, important and necessary work that speaks not only to the social scientists and theologians but to all of us finite creatures...
...In the "candescent sand and a great noise of heat" that is the contemporary world, she speaks the word of her poetry, "heavy/and wide and green...
...Her theme is loneliness: separate womeni s o l a t e d men live together by the social rules which short-circuit communication...
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...but on the other hand, a "sane" and "balanced" explanation of why these people do what they do would certainly be worthwhile, given all the polemical charismatic publications that glut bookstores...
...The "diabolical oscillation" in question is the cycle of youth rebellionright-wing reaction Lorenz posits as some sort of historic constant...
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...The second challenge I faced in reviewing Filled With New Wine was the dust-jacket description of the book and author Jones--himself an ordained Episcopal clergyman and active charismatic-and the accompanying endorsements...
...The ordination of women is not a political but a spiritual issue...
...These are poems informed by wisdom and passion...
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...That, to me, is the scienfist's "deadly sin...
...poetry, as Auden said, "makes nothing happen...
...With the image of a 29 November 1974:220 murdered grandmother fresh in his mind, the reader easily slides into Lorenz's assertion that modern youth feel a diffuse "hostility" towards their elders...
...Becker concludes his last contribution to our knowledge of ourselves by saying that all any of us can do to meet the challenge of death--which he realizes is ultimately the challenge of faith--is "to fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it so to speak to the life force...
...In the poem Jacobsen has her persona remember the mild animals in pictures of the cr6che as she looks out at "the green jelly of Hyena's eye" and sees the crocodile grinning at "the oldest coldest jest...
...The reader is left to guess...
...more importantly, both the behavioristic and the instinctual-innate theories can serve as rationales for repression...
...Is an "essential property" akin to, or identical with, an instinct...
...The United States is in especially bad shape because of our "justifiable but excessive" youth rebellion...
...He offers in lieu of the "blank slate" an instinctual, innately programmed, rather nasty creature...
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...In another context he refers to "reflection" as one of man's "most essential properties...
...Lorenz, for example, speaks of "parasites" of the human variety...
...As political theorists Charles Taylor and William E. Connolly have pointed out, to accept an explanatory theory is to implicate oneself in a corollary set of normative judgments generated by that theory whether these judgments are made explicit by the theorist or not...
...The lamentations of Lorenz focus on what he calls the "deadly sins" of civilized man...
...Whatever the symbolism and its intention, God became man in Jesus...
...She actually writes a poem about a dishwasher and makes it a comment on the human predicament...
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...He maintains that man is "helplessly at the mercy of the satanic workings of intraspecific selection," and that modern man "rushes, not only because he is propelled by greed, for this alone would not induce him to ruin his health, but because he is driven, and what drives him can only be fear...
...This is comparable to Humpty Dumpty's officious announcement to poor Alice that when he uses a word it means exactly what he chooses it to mean...
...In "The Quarrel" a man and woman sit at a breakfast table and if their love is oppressive and mute, it, like "a moth with a torn wing,/lurches a path across the table...
...Her awareness of the wild, harsh beauty of the primitive inevitably invites comparison with D.H...
...Presumably one cannot (or ought not) to generalize from the single case of a mentally deficient youth murdering his grandmother to political and social rebellion by young people...
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...This, I suggest, borders on demagoguery and convinces me that my initial misgivings about the movement were accurate...
...Josephine Jacobsen is an important voice in contemporary American poetry...
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...Underlying the whole of Filled With New Wine is the assurance that charismatics, if they are properly understood and openly accepted, can effect--by permitting the Spirit to work in a unique way through them--the renewal of the church that others have (in the opinion of some) miserably bungled...
...Unfortunately, Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, like On Aggression, explains too much with too little...
...Becker's failure to fully resolve the problem of religion for himself is indicated by his ambivalent attitude toward hope...
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...Although Lorenz states that his fears of genetic decay apply only to "rapidly spreading juvenile criminality but not to the world-wide rebellion of modern youth," just four pages later he notes: "The revolt of modern youth is founded on hatred . . . . " And, further on, he indicates that the older generation, albeit hazily, accurately perceives that the "ostensible protests" of youth are in reality "insults and aggressivity fueled by hatred...
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...First, it has been my opinion that the "Charismatic Renewal" of mainline churches, while touted by the media, has been elitist, anti-intellectual, nee-Gnostic and, quite frankly, dangerously hovering on the edge of sanity...
...It will, in any case, be the only justification for the outcome...
...Man's plight is no less severe than woman's...
...Either liberal Suenens had been conned or perhaps I had better revise my harsh, yet realistic, objections...
...Jones' explanation is perhaps a bit deceptive...
...To atone for the 'sin' of breaking with the past, more authoritarian patterns of bringing up children should be reinstitutionalized, the father must be restored to his rightful place (on top) in the "rank order" of things, and women must return to devoting "full time" to their children...
...Lorenz fails this test of responsibility...
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...The two phenomena are additionally linked for the reader as he or she encounters Lorenz's repeated use of highly emotive language ("progressive infantilism and increasing juvenile delinquency . . .", "decay of genetically anchored social behavior...
...Jones places the success or failure of the charismatic movement and its proposed renewal right in the collective laps of regular church-goers...
...I last saw Ernest Becker when he was at home resting after his first operation for the cancer that was to soon kill him, during a brief period when we were academic colleagues...
...Eccentric behavior and isolationist tendencies of a good many of those "born-again" Christians and tongue-speakers--"I had been baptized a Roman Catholic shortly after I was born, but I became a Christian when I was baptized in the Spirit," I was once told--were obviously divisive...
...Alas, whatever Lorenz's work may have in telling us important things about the behavior and habits of geese, dogs, ducks and fish, it adds little to our understanding of the life of human beings in modern society...
...In taking on human flesh, God accepted the restrictions and the limitations of this bi-sexual concrete world...
...You who imagined them, bless them by coming...
...Jones is not only "sane" and "balanced...
...Swenson's uncannily powerful imagery causes us to sit in her skin...
...In part two of her volume Commonweal: 217 Swenson describes "The Divorced Man" who takes his child to the museum and watches "his wife's face in the soliloquy of his son's smile...
...In part three she explores in a tentative, unresolved sequence, the possibility of communication...
...The goal of Pentecostal churches and charismatic communities alike ought to be to put themselves out of business, pointing to the time when all churches will be thus revitalized . . . . " This is Jones the realist who sees that any charismatic identity separate from mainstream Christianity is temporary and not to be stubbornly sustained...
...Well, you can imagine my quandary...
...These 'sins' are overpopulation, ecological destruction, 'man's race against himeself', the entropy of emotions, genetic decay, the break with tradition, human 'indoctrinability,' and nuclear weapons...
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...As poets pursue their insights to the extreme verge of breakdown, many, often successful poets, demand that their emotion create form...
...Since I am not versed in either exegesis or biblical socio-cultural history, I hesitate to dismiss whatever charismatic experiences may have taken place in the early church...
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...She looks at women in part one--at Dietrich, "her figure, plastic as an airline dinner," at Virginia who has been slowly dismembered on the operating table until she stands "wearing her scars behind the soft sculpture of foam," at Hecuba who hides behind a mask "taut and intransigent as the glaze on my best china...
...At the same time, however, I cannot help but note that many charismatics-and especially Jones in Filled With New Wine--tend to dismiss Christianity's development in the nineteen hundred years following the first Pentecost...
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...But Karen Swenson and Josephine Jacobsen are nothing so simple as feminists...
...A ninety-year-old woman, rouge on "the cracked china of her cheeks" smiles at a world her visitors cannot see before "Flat white shoes/ put her away unbroken...
...At the same time he agreed with Erich Fromm that men "had to leave tragedy behind as part of a program to awaken some kind of creative effort" in the world, and replied to Fromm's critics that if Fromm was a "Rabbi at heart" then "If the alternative is fatalistic acceptance of the present human condition then each of us is a rabbi---or had better be...
...Nevertheless, glossolalia must be mentioned and Filled With New Wine offers a modest explanation of the phenomenon...
...Lorenz's solutions to the problem of aggression included "working it out" through international sports competition and, somehow, encouraging people to laugh more...
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...My original opinions about elitism have, of course, been vindicated...
...Contemporary poetry, British and American, is the heir to the Romantic movement in its insistence that the response of self to the outside world is the only valid province of poetic exploration...
...How does one ordinarily treat a harmful parasite...
...Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins was preceded by Lorenz's celebrated work, On Aggression, in which he contended that man possessed an instinctual aggressive drive which he would invariably direct against his own species...
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...It is not difficult to imagine a woman presiding over the Eucharist, deeply united to the Lord, a humble servant of the people, if the Spirit of God possesses her, if she speaks and acts with the humble authority that comes from the Gospels, we have great need of such priests, masculine or feminine...
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...Surely man is both determined and determining and there is a via media between plasticity and intractability...
...The marriage the reader is called to celebrate is the happy wedding of word, form, and experience...
...Neither of these contrast models is edifying and neither is necessary...
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...Jones assiduously stresses that coverage which emphasizes emotional aspects of Pentecostalism, without equal emphasis on the intellectual, is misleading and grossly exaggerates the facts...
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...Speaking in tongues, he maintains, "is not primarily intended for the understanding . . . . " The "gift of interpreting" tongues is called into active service because glossolalia is unintelligible-even to those who glossolalize...
...The meaning is intended to humble...
...Josephine Jacobsen's sensibility is no less feminine than that of Karen Swenson but Jacobsen's poetic achievement is totally other...
...But it is in her incredibly penetrating vision of civilization transparently superimposed on the primitive forces of nature that she is most powerful...
...The title poem of her volume suggests Jacobsen's ideal...
...Admittedly, this is a monumental undertaking, not unprecedented in the history of the church and for that reason justifiably suspect in its magnanimity...
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...In the case of genetic decay, Lorenz sees mankind's "natural" and "mysterious" sense of justice rising up to triumph over decadent tolerance...
...Lorenz, for example, is never clear about what constitutes an "instinct," nor what distinguishes an instinct from "innate programming" or a number of other terms he employs...
...Filled With New Wine: The Charismatic Renewal of t h e Church JAMES W. JONES Harper & Row, $5.95 MICHAEL F. MeCAULEY Reviewing James W. Jones' Filled With New Wine presented this reviewer with a double challenge...
...Rather than reviewing all eight 'sins', I will focus instead on several of Lorenz's inconsistencies and on the prejudices which leap out from virtually every page...
...Yet once again Dr...
...Lorenz's answers to our contemporary dilemma create a vision of a verdant, rural past in which people grew vegetables, tended animals, lived in villages, ostracized deviants, disciplined 'parasites,' respected their elders, and recognized the "rank order of things...
...Her poetry achieves what every poet must strive for: imaginative validity...
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...Filled With New Wine is a frustratThe bestseller that "glows with a sense of peace: Science Monitor The inspiring story of a man's return to the wellsprings of life and Iove--"a powerful, sensitive novel, deeply moving...
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