Christianity Rediscovered
Hillman, Eugene
has matured from its New Deal origins tention neoconservatism "pays to the Steinfels's concluding words are com- testifies to this fact. The price market moral culture that is a...
...Irving Kris- tures of the peoples being evangelized...
...This is write, "And yet if the situation of liberal America has radicalized many of the why the "young churches" in Africa capitalism today seems so precarious, it missionaries sent there from Europe and (still "young" after a century) look like is nevertheless to survive for a long North America...
...y urobhusively learned some examples to set the mood...
...So we poor poorer...
...Some have returned to spiritual colonies of Europe, still subwhile, if only because the modern era has their own countries to preach repentance sidized heavily and staffed extensively failed to come up with any plausible al- to those who enjoy the fruits of a global by Christians of the Western world...
...Paul and the that increases fear, anxiety and legalism...
...Today it is Kristol and his sage for those who sent him...
...The Yippie Madison, Wbcornin 53715 23 November 1979: 667...
...Witness the legitimizing and lubricating ideology made if the market itself is to survive let the rationalizations that have eventuated of an oligarchic America where essential alone serve the public interest...
...Their vaunted cam- in northern Tanzania...
...tics, and a conservative in culture...
...Here are Review of Books...
...Woodstock without a doubt...
...The pros- danger posed by and to neoconservatism our economic order but governmental in- pect we seem to face now, however, is a is that it will become nothing more than terventions can be made and must be degeneration in their critique...
...perience of Christianity, with all of its the marketplace-seen merely as historical accretions, structures, and limaccidents-as the basis for an enduring Eugene Hillman itations, as a package inextricably bound and legitimate entitlement to power, up with the Gospel, to be accepted or privilege and property...
...but the Christianity, I must admit that it is not substance of this book would still remain without some weaknesses...
...In the spirit of St...
...This August, on Woodstock's tenth This is the first book to examine the totality anniversary, hordes of journalists and of Greenberg's position, showing both its Andrew Feinberg commentators similarly tried too hard to vakre and its incompleteness...
...several years...
...Woodstock by gathering a handful of six- 304 pages, $17.50 BAREFOOT IN BABYLON: ties' performers and bloating their "reTHE CREATION OF THE WOODSTOCK FES- Clement Greenberg, union" with the latest in hype...
...most of the introverted and psywith the intentions of its intellectual Roman Catholic officialdom had al- chologized theology that passes for sponsors...
...While searching for the meanconservative principles, the elements withstood Cephas to his face on the issue ing of the missionary ministry, the author needed to nourish our spiritually im- of imposing Jewish customs on gentile finds the meaning of Christianity prepoverished civilization are carping and converts to Christianity, missionaries cisely in the missionary outreach for the mean and they threaten the viable mixed have been struggling with, for, or sake of announcing to all peoples the economic order that can serve us well if against, the ethnocentrism of the "good news" that brings real human we are neither doctrinaire nor cavalier in churches that sent them out to foreign hope, joy, and liberation: not bad news our use of it...
...A sweeping work of intelectual into business," said a clothing retailer...
...They could, I this book to anyone interested in further am sure, score some valid points against disclosures related to the purpose of him, if they should wish to do so...
...Precisely...
...Each chapter is a neoconservatives' debt for the serious at- "incarnating" the faith in the varied cul- new reminder and a further verification Commonweal: 666 of an inflexible rule discovered by the scholars, so much more expert and cau- Americana -from Wisconsin biblical scholar Wilfred Harrington: tious than Donovan in their respective "The clearer the words of Jesus in regard areas of anthropology, scripture, comto Christian conduct, the more certainly parative religion, etc., might well queshave Christians done exactly the oppo- tion some aspects of his methodology, as site...
...tol himself has written (1970) "So I con- CHRISTIANITY REDISCOVERED: But missionaries were not in fact permitclude, despite Professor [Friedrich von] AN EPISTLE FROM THE MASAI ted to do this outside of Europe...
...and his motivation is social compassion-not sentimentality-rather a recognition of Out of Africa the need to alleviate to a degree the cosmic tricks played upon us all...
...Instead Hayek's ingenious analysis, that men Vincent J. Donovan they simply transported the Western excannot accept the historical accidents of Fides/Claretian, $6.95 paper, 200 pp...
...and indulgence in mocracy becomes an occasional, ritualissocialist in economics, a liberal in poli- Goldwater-like cold war sloganeering...
...The price market moral culture that is a fundament of our mandingly to the point: "The great system can remain the basic dynamic of political and economic life...
...WOODSTOCK CENSUS: stage Woodstock resuscitations had ters expresses the seasoned insights of more THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE SIXTIES trouble...
...Yes, we are in the ways given lip service to the principle of spiritual reading today...
...re- Human Nature in plied one of the faithful...
...Art historians, critics, and students will gain new insights recapture the sixties...
...The priesthood, and prayer...
...Those TIVAL who like the sixties will buy only so Art critic Robert Stephen Spitz much...
...This past summer, how- Barefoot _ in Babylon and Woodstock ever, rock promoters who attempted to The American Jeremiad Census mercifully bring us some fresh air SACVW BERCOVRCH and fresh facts...
...There is in this book a surprising "wasting time," intensifying the among whom he worked for many years mixture of conservative evangelical misjeopardy we are in...
...Socialism, communism, and economic system which pollutes the Donovan's discovery was made fascism have all turned out to be either earth while making the rich richer and the through his experience among the Masai utopian illusions or sordid frauds...
...We are indebted to Steinfels for so tradition of Ricci, De Nobili, and Las Some of Donovan's reflections are brilliantly and with such eminent good Casas, Donovan challenges the un- quite thought-provoking: on the church, will presenting the neoconservatives' examined suppositions and the cultural community, sacraments, eucharist, doctrines and showing, in the end, that arrogance of the sending churches...
...Is this more evidence that the than a hall-century of literary and historical GENERATION sixties are dead and the fifties are back...
...tic gesture...
...history...
...Both are filled with vivid ....a dazzling performance ...[Bercovitchl and appalling contradictions, a sign that has written intellectual history at the highest THEY HEED the authors have not been blinded by level" -Edmund S. Morgan, in the New York YOUR HELP...
...There is more "neoconservatism may prove dangerous keepers of Europe's folk religion may be valuable meditation material here than in in ways that have little or nothing to do expected to "frown" upon his effort...
...Professional to haunt them and us...
...one does not resurrect the spirit of dotal autobiography...
...DONALD KUSPR Viking, 15.95, 513 pp...
...When and lucidly written...
...He presents ings of Roland Allen and Hans Hoekenneoconservative colleagues who are this as "an epistle from the Masai" dijk...
...either nostalgia or revisionism...
...He goes on to THE EXPERIENCE of life in Latin rejected in its ambiguous totality...
...For me, the end of the 60's changed my 432 pages, $25.00 whole life...
...siology and avant garde incamational paigns to discover, through a recourse to Since that day in Antioch when Paul theology...
...has matured from its New Deal origins tention neoconservatism "pays to the Steinfels's concluding words are comtestifies to this fact...
...sents the first systematic account of changing ideas about human nature in American "Selling 45,000 ice creams at the thought from the seventeenth century to Woodstock festival...
...The resulting work will be one of keen interest to all readers who appreciate a YMetic Rex Weinet° & Deanne Stillman Yes, if you wish, but it could also be that literate, thought-provoking, and richly anecViking, $9.95, 273 pp...
...Many readers and with Kuspit as a guide...
...ROCK REVIVALS featuring fifties per- viewers almost suffocated amid the 224 pages, $15.00 formers have done big business for swamp gas...
...inquiry...
...Now Father Donovan, sent people, and in the light of his fresh readshall have time-though not an endless to Africa twenty-five years ago, has an ing of the New Testament...
...one of the kxninaries of American let...
...ternative...
...Crooks and straights Howard Mumford Jones An Autobiography F Here...
...in an Irving Kristol supporting Nixon, decisions are made by corporate elites, Almost alone among the neoconserva- and a Moynihan serving him...
...Such a care- American Thought free time-almost immersed in my own A History world there-could've easily forgotten MERLE CURU about everything outside of Max Yas- Pulitaer-Priae-winning author Merle Curti pregur's farm land...
...a notable contribution to the- history of American culture" - Daniel asked to cite their best sixties' experi- Aaron, in Commonweal ence, two census respondents revealed 254 pages, $15.00 one of the schisms of the generation...
...but he has also amount of it, for we have already wasted even more radical and disturbing mes- been influenced significantly by the writ-, a great deal...
...Another Woodstock profiteer was none other than Abbie Hoffman, the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Catholic Relief Services THANKSGIVING CLOTHING COLLECTION egomaniacal weasel who advocated mass 114 North Muryay Street Bring clothing to your local parish theft as a social remedy...
...peoples...
...and then going the present...
...well as some of his perceptions, judgWhile enthusiastically recommending ments, terms, and syntax...
...in superfi- where great inequalities are rationalized tive luminaries, Daniel Bell has retained cial revisionist dismissals of the great by straitened circumstances and a system this sense of needed government inter- gains in welfare and in social justice of of meritocratic hierarchy, and where deventions in the market (he states, "I am a the sixties...
Vol. 106 • November 1979 • No. 21
