Sexual Morality:

...The church has which he has arrived, there is no question eral norms, there are a few who are always been right in the essentials while that he has reached them on the basis of exempt due to a special set of circumoccasionally falling short (for complex reflection and experiential sensitivity...

...Whether or not one agrees with or is cases...

...not ambience the religious once drew know...

...Keane's conscience is simply a computer-like portray such autonomy as an easy surconcern is with what he calls "morally ratification of what the church teaches...

...The open- open to better expression...

...render to selfish desires...

...And solve it he does-too hierarchy, can't even imagine running must be explained more fully than Keane well and none too wisely...

...The scandal sheets have often we can achieve knowledge of what civilian fathers and husbands up in arms a heyday...

...traying God as an inarticulate message- tier and Related Installations Seem raunchy...

...casts some reflection upon his underject and its world has been severed, the In a time of urgent need the message of standing of religion as a whole...

...Only through the adoption of an from such a different world, they do The voluntas obedientialis uniquely actively passive attitude can we hope to nor affect our life here, and we can balances activity and passivity...

...Using this approach, Keane concludes Bob Goudeweard: Professor of Economics, that masturbation is frequently morally FreeUnirersity, Amsterdam...

...Yet truth "by conquest and rape...

...Keane notes that Roman moral life then norms, values, church ent life-in this case -a much different Catholic morality has held for centuries directives and the like can never be more life, perhaps, than the author fully that the individual conscience is ulti- than factors which the reflective person realizes...

...According to that .it would be more congenial to the realization and possibility...

...Keane, we are "called into a loving personal relationship with God" and sin is the breaking of this relationship...

...Why should he seek to multiply the items...

...While it is cept the full implication of this view...

...But the whole spirit behind the avoiding that absolutistic mentality danger is that "all sorts of people will answers will be different...

...Thus, Robert Martin: Makah Indian Nation, Neah while admitting that all venereal pleasure Bay, Washington...

...The Heidegger...

...Unfortunately, ord was absolutely perfect), the Captain There are, of course, respectable and "Pantiland" (as folks call it) becomes duly stands up for his subordinatesreasonable responses to such a question the talk of the jwngle towns, aspired to by hookers included...

...human sexuality as clearly as it might is simply a witness to Being, and its have...

...All human ac- pression that conscience is completely we are all exceptions...

...To say that an act is r.DM-AT(ON Ft1NQ ontically evil is not to say that it is neces- O w THIRD INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN sarily morally evil...

...Paradoxically, in Keane's ef- steady pay, Sundays off and other such work, zealous to a fault...

...After all, true constitutes the core of all religion...

...But does resignation suffice to an believe," but from a Godgiven faith Barrett, as the true believer he is, age that has become trammeled in its own enabling the believer to will...

...he does not even constitutes no project of moral action for posed...

...And yet, with his massender...

...Pantoja is your claswe are to live and that only human per- enced dames who gladly trade in the sic organization man-loyal to the team versity prevents us from recognizing this rigors of night life for regimentation, and to authority, obsessed with order and revelation...

...Michael Novak: Columnist, social critic, Employing "proportionate reason, based a scholar, and author of The Rise of the Unon the total concreteness of the action," meltable Ethnics...

...top brass appoint loyal career adminis- big generals-but Pantaledn, every inch I do not wish to trivialize what is obvi- trator Capt...

...surrender of Heidegger's Gelassenheit, has entry to some special sphere of "Perhaps we have to reach back...

...Such a faith constitutes at nary mortals do nor have access to philosophers, which goes back to St...

...Perhaps the will, at its deepest, that has been lost...

...And so a reproved and has done if it is to avoid giving offense...

...That objectivist and devoid of inner life...

...For approach, lo and behold the answers he arguable as to whether the only way to example, in his treatment of pre-marital .will "give to specific questions of sexual avoid this conclusion is by affirming ab- sex, which he argues is not always a morality will be, in general, fairly similar solutes, the more important aspect of moral evil, he is quick to add, however, to those given in the Christian tradition of Keane's effort is that he succeeds in that this is so only in rare cases and the the past...

...Acclaimed by fort to be more sympathetic to the human perks, while the Special Service, armed all as an administrative genius, he falls as plight, he...

...If we are to determine whether an O "JUSTICE FOR ALL: THE RIGHT OF ontically evil act is also morally evil, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION" "we must look not to the action alone, Guest Speakers: but to the action in its total context...

...cient single organism...

...Keane is led to reject the traditional view John Perkins: Voice of Calvary Ministires, that non-marital venereal pleasure is al- Jackson, Mississippi...

...it is, above all, an act faith must intrinsically verify the most the principal critic of our age and of its of faith, a profession of trust in the uni- vital and attractive life hypothesis...

...it is exclusively a matter of commanded by sheer resolve...

...verse that can be completed only in reli- the believer does not bank on some promNeeded is a return of freedom to Be- gious surrender...

...Now, From the ribald to the bureaucratic attractive as this is, its real significance depends upon just how we understand the CAPTAIN PANTOjA AND THE SPECIAL fatale of all the prostitutes who goes by divine-human relationship...

...central teachings to the goodness of particular occult matters ref facr...

...Capt...

...Father emphasis of the tradition in favor of a Commonweal: 344 more modem wholistic and relational sion that "anything goes...

...stances...

...He Paulist Press, 58.50, 236 pp...

...Still it creator who invites us to struggle with inevitably leads to a reconsideration of might not be presumptuous to suggest him to bring forth a new world richer in our understanding of God...

...We shall have to live mystic's reports of it out of hand: He does not connote self-assertion and dom- back into that way of'being in whose may be telling the truth, for all we inance, but love and acquiescence...

...this mentality is precisely what is likely to miss the whole point about mysticism...

...Panta, now a national celebGod wants only through the "discernabout this lewd misconduct, the Peruvian rity, is pressured for resignation by the ment of spirits...

...must carefully weigh in reaching his or Central to Keane's method is the He, of course, rejects the "mistaken im- her decision...

...cally evil, it is necessary to evaluate each H. Evan Rueser: Professor of Philosophy, act in terms of the totality of its factors...

...In revealing avail than Heidegger's pessimistic mained outside...

...We ordi- that voluntas had for some medieval with difficulty...

...dead in a skirmish with some sex-pirates, human moral actions, this God knows Panta aggravates things by having her exactly what should be done in every gene Sell-Villada buried with military honors and instance and our task is to find out what God knows...

...However, wager what was real faith...

...In a very real sense, then, ontic/moral distinction...

...the tropical rainforest, covert in mufti, demoralized Captain Pantoja is reasGranted that such expressions as "God with his mother, wife and new-born signed to the distant Andes where-amid speaks" or "God calls" are metaphori- daughter housed away in civilian se- the cold and the vicunas-he will no cal, still they must be used with more crecy, a diligent Pantoja quietly launches doubt do as thorough a job as quartermascaution and qualification to avoid por- the "Special Service for Garrisons, Fron- ter as he had done as brothelkeeper...

...once the primary prayer and the ultimate that special world, but out of demo- Augustine and beyond him to the Eros of resolve...

...To him the act of ger, the philosopher of Being, became cal determination...

...justified, homosexuality often, pre- And other speakers from North America and Michael Novak marital sex rarely and extra-marital sex other parts of the world...

...As if this weren't enough, a Special Service-is eloquent and movcosts, particularly since it is in such con- formerly passionless Panta (the Cap- ing, yet ridiculous given the circumflict with so many crucial features of our tain's nickname) falls for and shacks up stances, while his earnest plea about experience...

...To him the only freedom...

...runs the risk of presenting us with surveys, accountants, a river boat, a a result of his own bland innocence, his with a more repugnant image of God...

...A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE tion had not always "argued from its bring forward any new beliefs about Philip S. Keane, S.S...

...In the end the lent...

...Such a return grasped the full extent of what he pro- know what he believes...

...When his Brazilian amour is shot and all-knowing God...

...Religious statement 'I believe' can only be uttered Gelassenheit, of surrendering resigna- surrender springs not from a "will to as a prayer...

...Hence, as regards Harper & Row, $10.95, 288 pp...

...Pascal presented as a this process of detachment as it devel- critique of our present culture...

...outside of marriage is significantly onti- Torn Skinner- President - Tom Skinner Associates...

...The faith that is needed cannot be know for sure that he believes...

...mately responsible for moral decisions...

...He does not exactly ing, the will to let Being be...

...impression that Keane's God is the tradiThese ticking time bombs go off all at tional eternally unchanging, all-powerful Mario Vargas Llosa once...

...seems to be content with a rather antisep- carrying-out of the eternal unchangeable tic God untouched by these features of orders of a divine potentate, but as the Development of a doctrine of human reality...

...The implication here is that slightly different tempo, perhaps, but the persuaded by the particular positions at while most of us are constrained by gensame words and music...

...In the heat of his own shop...

...Out of compassion and experi- (SSGFRI...

...to an as well as the moral fiber needed to acreality, and brings us back bulletins older meaning of the will: to the meaning cept the grace of faith actively and often rrf information from there...

...Faith has cultural pendulum is bound to swing William James, that buoyant advocate of never found a friendlier observer than from soulless objectivism to vaporous or the moral will, may well be of greater William James...

...Keane would, of course, concede past of the Many fur a people who have SEXUAL MORALITY: church peccadillos: the Christian tradilost sight of the One...

...cause of certain historical distortions...

...there may be no more ion- I MUST confess that I approached this We are going to be shown, however, that portant task for our culture than to book with minimal expectations and this tradition is "a living tradition, ever rediscover the sense of the mystics...

...I would argue significant ontic evils," by which he My criticism is that Keane does not ac- that individual autonomy, properly qualmeans "that the evil is weighty and that the human person has some freedom relar 7, C 7Q--rF 17(CI, Bk 5769.Washincton.A.C 2W14 tive to the evil...

...Further, -The Illusion of Technique ing pages did little to raise my expecta- while Keane will reject the physicalist tions or challenge my prejudices...

...Strangely naive, lives, withholds it or releases it only con- comes the Peruvian military's most effi- even saintly (his pre-Special Service recsequent upon prayers and sacrifices...

...Keane is quite properly concerned to For more information write: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CHRISTI AN POLITICAL CONFERENCE reject as an implication of his stress upon Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa 51250 the total context of moral acts the conclu8 June 1979: 345 ified, is a more, not less, rigorous ideal a human situation characterized by com- spirit of Keane's undertaking if he would and that it involves more, not less, pain plexity, change, novelty and pain, yet he think of human morality not as a slavish and sacrifice...

...Certainly the surrender to cept of will has vanished from contempo- conversion that will liberate modern man rary thought, yet no other will allow us to requires a faith that possesses the passive We think of the mystic as one who escape our cultural predicament...

...Some have declared our age religious return to nature...

...tion...

...The mystic is not a pur- Sexuality, autonomy and God veyor of new information at all...

...The sponsibility and the second is his doctrine (though not sole) determinant of his "spirit" does give life and often a differ- of God...

...This con- knows the difference...

...TMs mouthful of ofcialese terful technique and his fascinating proence, Keane wishes to avoid the older denotes what will become a vast network tagonist, Vargas Llosa pulls it off with view that God has clearly revealed how of mobile brothels, staffed by experi- high artistry...

...Though Keane does not theology which needs fuller development tional concreteness which Keane has completely escape such a posture, what and one- which needs radical revision: placed at the center of his methodology...

...ways objectively morally evil...

...But if we would recognize that this zens, and excoriated in the florid broad- later insists to the generals, as a pep-talk, idea of God, is, after all, our idea, we casts of a slick radio demagogue named a needed spur to low morale within the might be less inclined to save it at all "Sinchi...

...This our culture and to regain a new sense of and mystic ism never existed...

...hydroplane, a colorful flag and even a incapacity to distinguish between what What kind of "loving God" is it who, bouncy hymn (sung to the "Mexican Hat might or might not be deemed legitimate possessing information vital to human Dance"), soars to dizzying success, be- administrative material...

...Indeed...

...Keane sensitively describes with a luscious "Specialist," the plum -motivating team spirit and group effiCommonweal: 346...

...Still, since these reports come the will to power, but the will to prayer...

...Barrett concludes laconically: "His with that mystical world to be able to two evaluations confirm one another...

...he does retain of it is honestly qualified The first is his notion of individual re- Once we accept the individual as the final and free from any self-satisfaction...

...breath...

...He does not...

...Has James himself ising hypothesis...

...Pantaledn Pantoja to solve an army man, hopelessly attached to ously a long-standing doctrine, but it the problem...

...I would contend that this concluhistorical reasons) in the accidentals...

...Keane acknowledges the pronouncing-in uniform-a deeply-felt W rIH frustrated soldiers going sexu- funeral eulogy, praising her as a soldier difficulty of this task and admits that ally amok in Amazon outposts, and fallen in action...

...Hut clearly appears in the mystical life, but Being...

...His graveside oration which safeguard our traditional idea of streetwalkers, envied by wanton citi- to the Brazilian-a speech conceived, he God...

...James reduced oped through Western history Heideg- James's moral will is far more than ethi- faith to a real wager...

...conception of freedom is detached from understand it as part of the real world, Once the intrinsic bond between the sub- the will to action...

...which usually accompanies such affirma- conclude that their case is one of the rare Surely I had heard the song before-a tion...

...But There is one aspect of Keane's moral sion cannot be reconciled with the relaI was wrong...

...Keane criticizes traO POLITICAL CONFERENCE ditional moral theology for its O "physicalism" which he wishes to August 24 1979 supplant with a more "wholistic" ap- rd Conference Theme: proach...

...We cannot will back a faith cratic tolerance we cannot reject the Plato...

...surrender is itself the fruit of the moral James, despite his life-long, serious Others speak of the triumph of subjectiv- will-but of this Heidegger remains si- interest, could not feel enough...

...All "God language" is, of sharing in the creative life of a loving autonomy along the lines I am suggesting course, profoundly inadequate...

...almost never...

...One gets the SERVICE the sobriquet of La Brasilena...

...the "Roman Catholic tradition on mystery, within which he seeks con- Eugene Fontinell human sexuality is impoverished betinuously to stand...

...deprive human subjectivity of its very Being requires more than an aesthetic- mysticism, Barrett rightly maintains, substance...

...empathy ity, or of the cult of power...

...Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan...

...It is first overcome the age-old schizophrenia of go about our concerns as if mystic and foremost acceptance, grace...

...The great error tions have an element of ontic evil insofar autonomous" but he also denies "that which the church has made has been to as they exclude some good...

...But one who always redestructive subjectivism...

...undoubtedly a few prejudices...