Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Zeik, Michael
or, as Michael Harrington advocates, through an active and honest socialist presence within the Democratic party. Finally, the people who should be addressed are not the poor, who are quite...
...A set has been on file for generations in the manuscript collection of the New York Historical Society...
...The book contains brief chapters on the social action tradition in American Catholicism and Judaism...
...Incidentally, Mr...
...They point out the connections between the church social involvement of recent years and the efforts of social activists and theologians at the turn of the century...
...McKim, Mead & White are obviously suspicious characters, to be condemned without a hearing because of their later "period" houses...
...P. DAVID FINKS is former associate director of the urban affairs department of the U.S...
...Andre FeuJnet, Bruce Vawter and other experts share their creative insights regarding the C~spel and Epistles of St...
...Gandhi realized, as some of his smart-mouthed critics have not, that unless he could change age-old attitudes regarding human excrement, there would be little hope for the social rehabilitation of the Untouchables...
...Bishops' Bicentennial Program...
...After his vow, h e made it his custom to confess publicly any sexual temptation he experienced...
...I am thus led to accept Ved Mehta's own complex portrayal of the gurustatesman (Indian by birth, Western by education and training, Ved Mehta can neither live with him, nor without him...
...he was taken in hand by the Graham Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, who persuaded him to spend eight years traveling through the fifty states photographing not only the present but the past...
...As far as I am concerned, however, the book is worth the purchase price for readers who have never met Walter Rauschenbusch...
...The past, to put it politely, is not his dish...
...MCCARRON THE TASTER'S GUIDE TO BEER, by Michael A. Weiner, Macmillan, $14.95, Collier paper, $7.95...
...They are looking for a person with sensitivity to minorities in the Church, sensitivity to problems of the youth and the elderly, and with "extreme sensitivity" to the role of women in the world today...
...Attention to village agriculture and handicraft do not seem to have plunged China back into famine and misery...
...painting/music...
...This might have been deleted by Marshall B. Davidson of American Heritage who, with his cohorts, is responsible for the text...
...Or I order Budweiser (five) because when my brother and I were very small our father, trying to instill a family enthusiasm for great horses, took us to see the magnificent Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales when they came to Trenton, It was this kind of horse, he said, that inspired the once popular temperance song called "Those Brewer's Big Horses Won't Run Over Me...
...2) How did the social gospelers understand the new urban world...
...Vulgar...
...G. E. Kidder Smith had pondered those lines of Mrs...
...Some at the time saw this era of "practical ecumenism" as the beginning of a fuller Christian unity, perhaps the long-delayed second stage of the Reformation...
...They hope, most of all, to find a woman...
...only when they were secure with a moderate standard of living could they consider the religious question...
...Its insistent, dominating horizontal bands of precast concrete," she admits, "destroy rather than preserve scale...
...The Social Gospel could serve as an invitation to present-day theologians and social thinkers to make use of the religious tradition and history of the United States in developing a relevant theology and effective strategies for today's social needs...
...These sheets would then be filled in with the requisite information and filed by State in outsized manila envelopes...
...And therein lies an interesting phenomenon...
...FATHER RAYMOND A. SCROTH, S.J., is associate editor of Commonweal...
...Delayed animation the infusion of the human soul after a period of developmentw is by far the oldest and longest tradition in Catholic thought on abortion...
...The first order of businses is to be a national conference or gathering of the laity which will include lay organizations, lay movements and individual lay persons, in the words of Archbishop Edward McCarthy, chairman of The Bishops' Committee...
...In that slum neighborhood he tried running a parish for people who, in his words, were "out of work, out of clothes, out of shoes, and out of hope...
...this was the hereditary task of the Untouchables (who must have deserved such unenviable karma from their behavior in a previous existence...
...Those who view The Boss and Brecht as interchangeable necessarily come to the conclusion that Grass is judging Brecht and such conclusions miss the point and purpose of Ihe play...
...For this alone, Toynbee singled him out as the most important personage of the 20th Century--far outranking a mere Roosevelt or Churchill...
...4) What were the points of connection and tension (if any) between the social gospel movement and the larger progressive movement...
...Even his apparent obsession with excretion--it is not hard to make jokes about this homely, old man--was more than neurosis...
...Catholic Conference/National Conference of Catholic Bishops...
...Catholic beer:drinkers will be glad to know that the Irish saints were partial to beer, that St...
...But this does not prevent her from heaving a sigh for the good old days when McKim, Mead & White and Carr~re & Hastings ruled the architectural world...
...The final chapter is a fine essay by theologian John C. Bennett summarizing the influence of the social gospel in the contemporary scene...
...And "sleeping" was not a euphemism for the night's activities...
...Here, for example, are some choice words from Beckett's Proust (1931), quoted by Mercier, in which Beckett sets out what is perhaps the central theme in all his writing: The only fertile research is excavatory, immersive, a contraction of the spirit, a descent...
...Specially, his assertion that "Beckett's tragicomic figures are downto-heel gentry rather than Lumpenproletariat'" is the kind of stuff that good criticism is made of...
...The artist is active, but negatively, shrinking from the nullity of extra-circumferential phenomena, drawn in to the core of the eddy...
...But for those patient enough to sift through the clutter of the Roman Catholic perspective there is much that will illuminate "the current debate...
...There have been few insights in my life that have made as profound an effect on my thought and action as Rauschenbusch's exegesis of the Good Samaritan parable...
...Aside from passing his bar examination in England (not an arduous achievement at the time), he never earned any academic degrees---nor did he ever win an election or hold public office...
...Co-author Hopkins published an earlier study of the social gospel thirty-five years ago, (The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915...
...John including such topics as: Relationship of Love to Faith, Man's Participation In God's Life, Church in Job~nntne Writings, John's Theology of Man and others...
...I won't buy the highly-touted Coors because I don't want my beer money supporting Coors family right-wing causes...
...He was the first to demonstrate the achievement of political ends without military meanswin a nuclear age...
...The latter remains a painful mystery of motive and act, and this would remain largely true even if we possessed more of the proximate biographical data than we do...
...PAUL house 2~s7 v,cToRY e,vo...
...C. HOWARD HOWPKINS With an Essay by John C. Bennett Temple Univ...
...What the architectural modernists attempted to do," she tells us, "was to bring history to a halt...
...The search committee is primarily made up of lay advisors...
...That is correct...
...Father Connery states that he has "no intention of entering into the current debate...
...Early in his book on Beckett, Professor Vivian Mercier remarks: "There is always, I believe, a dialectic at work in the minds of the greatest writers: perhaps their greatness consists precisely in the power to hold two equal and opposite ideas in the mind at o n c e . " Such is the framework for Mercier's consideration of Beckett...
...When questioned, the old man explained that brahmacarya must be tested, or it wou!d lose its edge...
...The source of this information is politely acknowledged in a footnote...
...In such hopeless conditions, we are told, his German Evangelical inheritance of "warm hearted piety broke down . . . . " During those years the young pastor came into contact with important social reformers...
...Consummately uninspiring" is her comment...
...and other scholars, almost everyone knows by now that the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright would have been unthinkable without the achievements in the Shingle Style of McKim, Mead & White and their rivals...
...First, the author passes too easily from her published poems to her life, and back again...
...To the Editors: We are in debt to William L McGill for calling our attention to the remarkably God-directed poetry of Anne Sexton, for the economy of his argument, and for his fine selection of the poet's own words [May 13...
...Gandhi shared it...
...and I could gape with awe at these prancing, clumping steeds and imagine how powerful the song-which I have yet to hear--must be...
...What explains it...
...Huxtable is traveling her own road, but, so we are told in the introduction, Mr...
...Do we need to be told, when the South is under consideration, that "frock-coated planters and hoop-skirted belles entertained in stately splendor at their elegant plantation houses...
...And the text itself, might have been edited by someone with a sense of humor...
...Huxtable that he is almost ready to make the fatal mistake in print of trying to improve her mind...
...Would it not be of consequence if the Third World were to elect his, rather than Lenin's, formula for freedom...
...How would Christ have judged it...
...This is a rather curious book, in that its historical survey of Catholic thought on abortion ends somewhere around 1950...
...The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform tn Changing America RONALD C. WHITE, JR...
...he was, in fact, beyond it...
...Caste Hindus refused to clean their own waste...
...The Architecture o/ Georgia is bound to get all the attention it de: serves...
...16 September 1977:600 His economic views are similarly dismissed today as hopelessly medieval...
...It was, whatever else, a creative and exciting time to be working in the church...
...There is a problem here...
...omy, but it will not become a trap which enshrines social process at the expense of human will and trivializes human struggle by confining it to those whose oppression is too real and too awful to he simply the locus for someone else's dream of authenticity...
...Gandhi had placed himself beyond Hindu orthodoxy...
...Many years later a young minister gave me a copy of Rauschenbusch's book, Christianity and Crisis, at a time when I found myself discouraged to the point of inactivity by the problems and needs of people living in a parish in a central-city ghetto...
...This happens in two related ways...
...Mahatma Gandhi and Ills Apostles VED MEHTA Viking, $14.95 _~[ICHAEL ZEIK I have now read three biographies of Gafidhi...
...Gandhi was not endowed with any exceptional scholarly, scientific, or artistic talents...
...Your reviewer finds himself agreeing so often with Mrs...
...He was a contributor to the Jerome Biblical Commentary...
...Whoever they find will have an almost impossible taskmbut an unparalleled challenge...
...The other best beers have been those that punctuated all-night conversations with friends...
...Gloom seems to have s•ttled down on Mr...
...GERALD J...
...Grass has weaved a mental web of artfully juxtaposed historical facts, Shakespearean and Brechtian quotations, witty respect for the depth of the worker's needs, and an intimate understanding of the artist's plight...
...Gandhi was immediately compared to Socrates, to Buddha, to St...
...That sounds fairly impressive until you hear that something over 400 of them have been written...
...He cannot practice friendship, because friendship, is the centrifugal force of self-fear, self-negation . . . we are alone...
...In 1892, Rauschenbusch and a few friends formed a study group and named it the Brotherhood of the Kingdom...
...The best beer I ever had was on a blazing hot afternoon in the early 1950s when the county highway crew I was working on had just put down a new blacktop driveway for a country tavern and we sat under a tree dripping with sweat and the proprietor brought us a cold pitcher...
...Any applicants...
...David against Goliath...
...Nor is she kinder to the World Trade Center that Yamasaki designed in collaboration with Emery Roth k Sons...
...How temporal are the standards of critics...
...But Messrs...
...Davidson to the contrary, it is not quite true that John Hawks's drawings for Governor Tryon's palace at New Bern were "almost unbelievably found in London...
...And although it is lavishly illustrated and beautifully laid out, it should never be described as a coffee table item...
...the Mahatma was still in his thirties when, without consulting her, he publicly announced his vow of brahmacarya (celibacy...
...The author holds degrees tn Scripture and Theology from the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Angelicum...
...It was," he said, "like we were going to bring in a new day in Christendom kind of thing...
...and, man/woman...
...Perhaps the best reward to be had from this highly overpriced, slim volume is that one is enticed by Professor Mercier into re-reading Beckett...
...Your reviewer must admit he would have enjoyed a quote from either Julien Green or the 16 September 1977:602 Civil War correspondent William Howard Russell on the Gothic Green house in Savannah, but that is quibbling, for we are told for the very first time that the architect of the Green house was John S. Norris of New York...
...The format presents a few problems in keeping track of time sequence as you read it, but all in all, it gives a good overview of a complex movement...
...For a younger generation who seem to think that Martin Luther King, Jr...
...When I can can pick my brand I buy Rolling Rock (which rates six mugs on a scale of seven on Weiner's chart) because I llke the little green bottles...
...One virtue of a good literary critic is to uncover passages in which the writer can speak for himself illustratively...
...Yet, when this man died, a black arm-band, like a mournful equator, encircled the globe...
...A leading church activist of this period told me recently that he saw the interdenominational social mission effort of the '60s as a sign of new life for the church in the modern world...
...The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising is more than a portrait of one man's life---the play explores the revolutionary consciousness of the common man from the legends of ancient Rome to 20th Century Germany...
...It is a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried...
...She (or he) must work for the bishops in what is, after all, a bureaucracy with all that that implies...
...it has, indeed, a long-range bearing on the second...
...Einstein, not the least of his admirers, said this: "Gandhi demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through _9 . . the usual political maneuvers and trickeries, but through the cogent example of a morally superior life...
...The Boss hecomes a modern day Coriolanus with scars of intellectual wars equal to the scars of Coriolanus's physical wars...
...The Catholic Church was busy for the most part until after 1920 with the care of its newly-arrived immigrant members, to say nothing of its battle against "Know Nothing" hostility in American society...
...In fact, Wright's own house of 1889 in Oak Park was patently inspired by McKim's Low house at Bristol, Rhode Island, of two years before...
...PHILLIP CORWIN iS a poet, novelist and critic who works for the United Nations...
...Premiere, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprixlng Se~t~ mind @od San Francisco, Cal...
...If they did not, presumably the asses who had to lug the wounded to the tavern would have the wisdom to inquire into the causes of their extra work...
...His chapter titles present, so to speak, seven ways of looking at a blackbird: the world/Ireland...
...Some 16 September 1977:604 theologians allowed direct therapeutic abortions, provided the fetus was still unformed...
...philosopher/ artist...
...I don't...
...Martin comes dangerously close to perfection and may take his place by the side of Ezra Stoller and the late Richard Nickel...
...RAYMOND A. SCHROTH BECKETT/BECKETT, by Vivian Mercier, Ox/ord University Press, $11.95...
...She knows that Warren & Wetmore's Grand Central Terminal was a "grand civic gesture," and when discussing one of the plans to dismember Stanford White's Villard houses whose Gold Room she describes as "unequivocably magnificent," can't keep from calling the scheme a "particularly slick bit of real estate sleight-of-hand...
...RUIS WOERTENDYKE Director of the N.Y...
...STATEN ISLAND, N.Y, 103]4 Commonweal: 605 Mercier gets down to the particulars of discussing Beckett, he is able to provide some fresh perspectives...
...Finally, the people who should be addressed are not the poor, who are quite right to seek immediate gains for themselves and their families that socialism in fact cannot at the moment provide, but the middle class...
...This wizened, homely old man, at once the Washington and Lincoln, the Founder and the Emancipator, of modem India, won independence for 600 million people without resort to war...
...They also hope to find a person sensitive to special contemporary family problems including the problems of divorced and remarried Catholics...
...KIDDER SMITH & MARSHALL B. DAVIDSON American Heritage-Norton, $45 (2 Vols...
...Basically, a distinction between a formed and an unformed fetus was made...
...It is probably true that the 100 million Untouchables are worse off now than they were when Gandhi died...
...This is a haphazard collection of plates, missing all too often the tried and true, and offering next to no novelties...
...Kleked AL B u i l d t ~ i m t e l g ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Quadrangle, $12.50 Architecture in America G.E...
...Mercier does this frequently...
...Thinking of the Plebeians as a portrait of Bertolt Brecht greatly diminishes its scope and confines its import to that of a topical didactic drama...
...Between the bullock and the Buick, there is still the bicycle...
...Rightly or wrongly, Mrs...
...Kidder Smith is a devoted modernist, no doubt of that...
...Why, oh why, must she say that Walter Gropius's house in Lincoln, Massachusetts is ~'that clarion call to the future...
...Many more, I should imagine, than have been written about Roosevelt, Churchill, or even Hitler (although, today, devils seem to fascinate us more than saints...
...Rauschenbusch wrote: "The good Samaritan did not go after the robbers with a shotgun, but looked after the wounded and helpless man by the wayside...
...That argument was always self-righteous and never empirically validated, but, even granting it, the fatal flaw was that no one ever got around to raising the religious question after their bellies were full...
...Connery's style of doing history and moral theology consists primarily in gathering together dates, names, and places: Who said what when...
...Nevertheless, we have lived to see a book like Schumacher's Small i.v Beautiful seriously discussed on campuses all over America...
...Huxtable concludes that "the level of architectural design has risen significantly across the country...
...Everythingmit would seem at this point---depends on the choice of executive direction for the secretariat for the laity...
...The Architecture of Georgia FREDERICK B. NICHOLS Beehive Press, $30 T~ Old tn New A t l a # t ~ ELIZABETH M. SAWYER & JANE FOSTER MATrHEWS ferns Publications, $5 W A Y N E A N D R E W S Ada Louise Huxtable must have been aware of this for some time, but there is no harm in pointing out that serving as the New" York Times' chief architectural critic isn't the easiest job in the world...
...His views are quite extreme, and I will not defend them as they stand...
...We cannot know and we cannot be known...
...That a man is neurotic, that he rationalizes some of his more obscure emotional needs, does not automatically strip him of his dignity-even his sanctRy...
...I am sure that there will be one...
...A biblical scholar prohes the Old and New Testament on the inter-relatedness of sin, suffering and death, and examines the biblical authors' quest for a solution to these vexing problems...
...Nor was it his uneasy relationship with his sons, who tried in vain to live up to their father's exalted ideals...
...Flying into Houston Commonweal: 601 one day and Atlanta the next, she does her best to keep up with what is going on without losing her temper...
...Commonweal: 603 The narrative builds around the answers to four questions, stated in the book's introduction: 1) Is the social gospel chiefly a response to external events, or is it rather the expression of the internal continuity of aggressive American religion...
...When she comes to his Kennedy Center in Washington, she reports that "the building is a national tragedy...
...Why 400 biographies...
...Alas...
...They will be disappointed that Weiner does not confront that long-standing church controversy over which Catholic college-Georgetown, Fordham, Notre Dame, Bonaventure, or Holy Cross---has the best earned beer-drinking reputation...
...But as the decade came to a close, the bitterness of the anti-war movement caught up in the repressive climate of the Nixon administration, together with the animosity of militant Black Power groups turned the national attention away from domestic social reform...
...If only Mr...
...Or that "midwestern cities are far from either ocean, landlocked in the center of the continent"7 Page after page is studded with irrelevant dates, popping out like so many raisins in a bowl of clam broth...
...Abortion: The Development o/ the Roman Catholic Perspective cries out for a sequel...
...3) To what extent is the social gospel a theological movement, and what is its theology...
...It was an important day for me when I first read his updated version of the parable of the Good Samaritan...
...Nevertheless, the Greek word for "private" is "idiotes...
...For Catholics, I think, the book opens up an era of social action in American church history in which we were little involved...
...We banded together to battle through a series of crisis situations: Black civil rights, marauding urban renewal bulldozers, the organization of strife-torn urban communities...
...Baptist minister, seminary Professor, social activist, he is, as the authors note, "the foremost theologian of the social gospel movement...
...WAYNE ANDREWS is Archives of American Art Professor at Wayne State University...
...As a young pastor in the 1880's, Rauschenbusch worked in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City...
...This Is a complete summary of philosophy and Its history, specially designed for the student majoring in philosophy or for the seminarian who needs philosophical knowledge for his work in theology...
...The book he wanted to publish would have been entitled New Architecture USA, and who knows, we might have been as grateful for that as we were for his Brazil Builds back in 1943...
...How could she forget that Gropius was one of the perpetrators of the Pan-Am Building or that the Architects' Collaborative that he organized is responsible for the ghastly new home in Washington of the American Institute of Architects...
...As for the text, it is a model of scholarship...
...Fearful lest they exploit the fame and power conveyed by the Gandhi name, he denied them even a formal education-maintaining that the life of a peaceful peasant was morally superior to that of the moneyed classes...
...This grave responsibility she bears with good humor and even gaiety, realizing that she may repent tomorrow of the judgments she hands down today...
...And she is aware that there were plenty of prigs in the modern movement...
...I have been asked," he tells us, "how I established a procedure for tracking down so many buildings spread over so many miles...
...Cicero once said something similar in reference to Cataline...
...Rauschenbusch spent a sabbatical leave in Germany reading Marx and Tolstoy and talking to the leading social thinkers and theologians of Europe...
...Late r, he published a small newspaper, For the Right, dedicated to the "interests of the working people of New York City...
...It is hoped that he or she will know what it means to be a participating lay person in the Church, especially as envisioned by Vatican II and with a good background in Vatican II theology-not necessarily formally acquired...
...The authors intend the present volume to "restate and revision the social gospel for a new generation of readers...
...Ved Mehta, devoted though he is to the Father of India, does not hesitate to set down these and other facts relating to Gandhi's neurotic obsessions with diet, sexuality, and excretion...
...Francis, and to Jesus Christ...
...classicism / absurdism...
...Connery's research shows that Catholicism's present hard-line position on abortion dates back only to the second half of the nineteenth century...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued Irom page ~79) like Brecht...
...There is very little probing beneath the surface of things...
...The churches heeded their critics and returned, almost overnight, to more spiritual concerns...
...Even in our own day we see the opponents of the present regime in India appealing from Gandhi (Indira) to Gandhi (Mahatma...
...If you are interested in what Atlanta looked like before John Calvin Portman produced the Hyatt Regency Hotel, here is the answer to all of your questions...
...He may have held the sub-continent of India in his pocket (do dhotis have pockets...
...In this framework, Marxist analysis will be a useful tool to understanding the American political econ0 0 0 0 0 0 000 REVIEWERS DAVID O'BRIEN has served as consultant to the U.S...
...MICHAEL ZEIK teaches at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York...
...She may not have tantrums, but she has her pet peeves, one of whom is Minoru Yamasaki, the "vacuous vulgarities" of whose Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton leaves her appalled...
...For .the pleasure to be found in coping with Beckett's profound pessimism is perhaps the most puzzling contradiction of all...
...The authors point to the need for historical research into the paralells, connections and contrasts among the three religious-social traditions...
...It was certainly not his questionable behavior to his wife...
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...He championed the spinning wheel against the textile factory...
...Kidder SmRh has been led down a road he never intended to travel...
...Neither are the Villard houses...
...The book may well serve as a tonic for those activists who miss that style of church social concern in the '70s...
...Paul Johnson may be right: perhaps Gandhi's life proves that "goodness is not enough...
...In its search the committee on the laity has been remarkably open...
...Since the perfect photograph of any building remains to be taken, it would be silly to describe as perfect the performance of Van Jones Martin, who took so many of the shots in The Architecture of Georgia...
...FATHER GERARD J . MCCARRON, OSFS, is a candidate for a doctoral degree in pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary...
...So he talked a lot about latrines, and frequently carried a shovel...
...5.95 paper olllo house DIVISION,OF THE SOCIETY OF ST...
...But she (or he) may blend into a chorus the varied voices and arrive at an authentic expression of the mind of the laity...
...For some strange reason there is not one example of Stanford White in the book...
...Huxtable's heart, is not represented...
...It is a play about us...
...But we in America know that, even if there is an agonizing time-lag between the two, the first is not negligible...
...Paul Johnson, in a recent, excellent review of this book in the New York Times, felt that Gandhi, in the long run, had been a failure...
...They want a person with-awareness of the Protestant and non-Christian world, one with ecumenical attitudes and experience...
...The Old in New Atlanta may be overlooked, which is a pity, for it is one of the best local studies that your reviewer has come across...
...The Social Gospel by White and Hopkins is a look back at the roots of the social concern of the Protestant churches in the United States, a concern that had its most flowering in the ecumenical urban ministry programs of the '60s...
...Huxtable before he went to work on Architecture in America...
...They are in search of a lay person who is a committed Catholic with lay involvement...
...eye/ear...
...But Mr...
...gentleman / tramp...
...Raymond Brown, Rudolf Schnaekenburg...
...This is meant to be a listening conference as much as it is a conference to set up channels of communication...
...And though it is hardly an original approach, once EXPERTS CONSIDER JOHANNINE THEOLOGY A COMPANION TO JOHN Readings in Johannine Theology Ed...
...But the book is, above all, an excellent introduction to the social gospel movement that flourished in American Protestantism in the late decades of the 19th century and in the first years of the present century...
...For twenty years the Brotherhood met regularly to discuss the problems of the world in the light of the Christian teaching of the Kingdom of God "in order to re-establish," they said, "this idea in the thought of the church, and to assist in its practical realization in the world...
...she cries out as she discovers the merits of the New York Public Library, and there really isn't a solemn paragraph in this collection of her recent columns...
...For men and women who think that Christian socialism or theologies of liberation are recent imports, The Social Gospel offers surprising information and lessons from the North American experience...
...In New York he met Edward Bellamy, and Henry George, the author of the controversial Progress and Poverty...
...But if hundreds of good Samaritans traveling the same road should find thousands of bruised men groaning to them, they would not be such very good Samaritans if they did not organize a vigilance committee to stop the manufacturing of wounded men...
...I am not a professional photographer," he declares, and this seems to be true as one contemplates one shot after another taken, as he admits, "on the run...
...learned his social action theology from Gandhi, rather than from his Baptist seminary training, it is a text with some new perspectives...
...Michael Weiner, with his Taster's Guide, has made beer drinking an even more delightful pseudo-intellectual exercise than i t is already~ Here is a 256page illustrated thirst-for-knowledge quencher on the history, chemistry and geography of brew...
...In these days when the churches seem to be resting from the exertions of the '60s, The Social Gospel recalls a proud tradition of active social concern readily adaptable to new times and new troubles...
...Unfashionable as it may be to say this, Gandhi was probably in "need of a "Church"--and by that I mean a sacred community with which he could 'checkin' for corroboration or confrontation...
...In his own words he is not an architectural historian...
...Thanks to the labors of Vincent Scully, Jr...
...Another architect who disappoints here is Edward Durrell Stone...
...There is evidence in the present volume that some of the early social gospelers included "Romanism" among the critical urban problems of their day...
...Perhaps it is about time church activists and social democrats direct their analysis, their theology and their challenge to the middle and upper classes, telling them to stop pushing people around at home and killing them abroad and start finding ways to use the education, talent and treasure which they have received from America to build a human world and fulfill those promises which America once offered and in fact are still alive in the hearts of most of her people...
...4.95, paper THE ELEMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY by William A. Wallace, O.P., Ph.D...
...Press, $15, $6.95 (paper) P. DAVID FINKS Ten years ago, many Americans, Protestants and Catholics, blacks and whites, clergy and lay, were caught up in a surprising amount of ecumenical social action...
...The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising is not a play about Bertolt Brecht...
...Kidder Smith when he got deep into this project...
...PHILLIP CORWIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A b i g a i l MeE~'thy ( e o m ' t ) to their needs...
...The simplicity of life, the outright poverty he demanded from his wife and children, he first cheerfully imposed on himself...
...The poems, however, are public docu16 September 1977:606...
...These concepts are all central to Beckett's work, and Mercier's treatment of them is enlightening when it is not bogged down in pedantry...
...Other questions arise and are answered in the course of the book...
...by Michael J. Taylor, 8.J...
...Bridget is credited with changing water into beer, and that the patron saints of brewing are Luke the Evangelist, Nicholas of Myra, (also known as Santa Claus) and, of all people, Augustine of Hippo...
...Exa~nination copies available for 30 day trial period...
...Of this I am sure: if R did, there would be many open dates o n the Christian calendar-ofsaints as well...
...Not only was the past rejected out of hand, but the present was to have nothing to do with it...
...That, he found, ended it...
...McKim's University Club, so dear to Mrs...
...the why usually being because someone else said it previously...
...The first necessity was to devise a cross-indexed field sheet with space for the name of each building~ its address, the architect and date when known, followed by a series of pertinent points to be checked and written upon location...
...But the play is more than thatmIt is a modern day tragedy with classic proportions and should be recognized as such...
...He assumes that because we can know the testimony and meaning of her deliberately crafted poems, we can know the same for her act of suicide...
...As for the present volume, I suspect that many "liberals" will dismiss it as conservative gibberish and that many "conservatives" will embrace it because its style is ponderous...
...But it is sad that he has no patience with the history of modern architecture...
...Listening to Gtinter Grass's advice as to the direction of the play served only to support what I had already felt...
...Christian social action began by saying that the poor could not be evangelized because their concerns were with survival...
...Instead, each generation goes to the poor to tell them how bad the system is and where their real interests lie...
...But both the Western psychologist, Erikson, and Gandhi's own disciple, Bose, concluded that these eccentricities were the result of his repressed sexuality...
...There were many in those crisisridden days who had similar high hopes for the church's ministry...
...So the taste of beer is a function o f other circumstances--the lilt of a song, the adventure of a new friendship, the age of the drinkers, the tenseness of the tennis game, politics, the shape of the mug, the spirit of the school and the remembered smell of a horse--that scientifically have little to do with brewing the beer...
...In his seventies, for example, the Mahatma took to sleeping (naked) with his female attendants...
...It merely remains indispensable...
...She must decide what's what in the world we live in...
...Yet no one, friend or enemy, ever accused the man of conscious hypocrisy...
...His essay does oversimplify, however, creating a distorted perspective on her late work...
...paper THE CUP OF GRIEF Biblical Reflections on Sin, Smffering mad Death by Roland J. Faley, T.O.R...
...Such probing would have forced Connery to deal with "the current debate" the very thing that he claims he does not want to do...
...The tradition began as early as Tertullian and was still reflected in canonical legislation as late as 1869...
...but he never held public office...
...His eldest son ended by breaking completely with him, and became everything his father disapproved of: a meat-eater, an alcoholic, a gambler, and a philanderer...
...There are grounds for the opinion...
...If there is such a thing as the permanent book on the architecture of Georgia prior to the Civil War, here it is...
...Connery's research clearly shows that Catholicism can not appeal to a long unbroken tradition when dealing with all the aspects of her present stand on abortion...
...It is keyed to the NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCI,OPE* DIA where fuller expositions and bibUographies may he found...
...The history of this movement is presented by the authors through an interweaving of documents from unpublished or out of print sources, critical essays by present-day scholars, all tied together by a brief narrative...
Vol. 104 • September 1977 • No. 19
