A Catch of Anti-Letters:
True, Michael
and the prophetic message was forgotten. church. While its "catalogue" style of In short, Judaism misunderstood and If we are ever...
...Christian theologians Merton and Lax relatively inaccessible to Judaism emerge from Dr...
...Klein attributes this resolution on the part of Old and contemporary Christian scholars: the bischolarly distortion to the almost uni- New Testament scholars to examine blical scholarship that has shaped much versal reliance by Christian biblical afresh their own attitudes and objec- of modern Christian theological reflecscholars on the Strack/Billebeck collec- tively to present Jewish teaching and tion is seriously deficient in its undertion of materials for their knowledge of the Jewish way of life between the standing of the Second Temple period in Judaism and the virtually total lack of two Testaments in the light of their Judaism that provided the context for the acquaintance with serious Jewish schol- study of the original Jewish sources message of Jesus and the birth of Chrisarship on the period...
...town religion: spell it out with opium...
...Anticipatory democtory department at the University of New racy would combine greater popular parMexico...
...N.E...
...contain reminiscences about Columbia come mired in one-sided observance, no Thus Anti-Judaism in Christian University professors and friends they longer part of the covenant...
...traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes con- Dr...
...They the description of them in the New Tes- Judaism...
...lege of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, What is most curious about the volMassachusetts...
...CONDINI ANTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, People in REVIEWERS the Politics of the Future, edited by DAVID HERLIHY is professor of medieval Clement Bezold with an introduction by history at Harvahl...
...But traces of the historically true...
...The problem with Sec- theological reformulation within the 12, 1966): "Here if you wish to make a Commonweal: 188 hit with the clergy all you got to do is tatorship...
...The i perspective from which she judged the Anglo-American biblical community and Temple Judaism for these interpret- deficiencies of the scholars ,in question represented by such names as W.D...
...tems, the which are apparently victims STEVEN PHILIP KRAMER teaches in the his- of "future shock...
...Will the bloody perhaps just too limited in interest to overthrow of tyrants lead to a redressing shore up the thin text...
...Cardenal wavers...
...The poems about Nicaragua stand up and say God is dead and you will are more tangible in scope, though occabe an immediate success...
...She show a familiarity with the research of -Anti-Judaism in Christian Theol- claims her task is only to surface the pioneering scholars such as R. Travers ogy problem...
...Is viobackground information in the lent revolution then the key to a new, Foreword, but his notes are too sparse or purer species of men...
...liam Barclay...
...by bit though, as we trudge through the How to be a good priest and a good slush of the initial doldrums, something Marxist in the face of injustice is a feat to more poignant and sinister breaks be pursued with palpitations of the heart...
...Carheard such a rush of people running and denal is more at ease tackling the falling over each other to say God is generosity of nature and the high quality dead...
...Norman Vincent Peale etc is all of old rites-the idyllic time of the God is dead...
...realm of futurology, this is really a colMICHAEL TRUE is professor of English at lection of short, uneven essays barely Assumption College in Worcester, Mas- tied together...
...sciousness of a living Jewish community same thing-mutatis mutandis-as to to whom an injustice has been done by put together an image of Jesus from the the deicide charge, during the Nazi Talmudic sources and to regard this as In brief period in particular...
...They no sor Eva Fleischner, Judaism in German in offering an unfavorable interpretation longer were recipients of divine help and Christian Theology Since 1945, this volof Judaism than their German and French grace...
...Brother the Mayas, towards artificial luminosity, Patrick Hart provides some useful hallucinogenic trips, inequality...
...Fenton and others is less automatic rying out the commandments...
...As for the Pharisees, they are de- ume constitutes an important steppingcolleagues...
...Instead of exclusive great but not impossible task of her- summary fashion her own understanding dependence on Schurer and Strack/ meneutics which is already being at- of what Christianity's theological percepBillebeck, English-speaking scholars tempted by some individuals...
...Rather MATTHEW MESTROVIC teaches at Fairleigh than a serious investigation into the Dickinson University in New Jersey...
...Caird, began to rely on their own efforts in car- Along with the earlier study by ProfesJ.C...
...and not at second hand...
...And, even more impor- understand the Pharisees and scribes only though it leaves to others the actual task tantly, one finds in their writings a con- through the eyes of the gospels is "the of building a new framework...
...While its "catalogue" style of In short, Judaism misunderstood and If we are ever to reach a fresh, presenting viewpoints makes it a bit failed in its real task...
...It highlights the major problikewise display a better knowledge of tament...
...ticipation with enhanced future conROBERT L. KING teaches English at the Col- sciousness...
...ume is the extraordinary gap between 30 March 1979: 189...
...society that has refused death and is and a Los Angeles evangelist named therefore incapable of true rebirth...
...through: images of jails filled with politi- Shall we then forego Cardenal's stark, cal detainees, barbed wire, execution conversational vision if it skips, like his squads: Nicaragua under the Somoza dic- heart, a beat or two...
...They reveal a much more picted as the archenemies of Jesus...
...Davies, Norman Perrin, G.B...
...such as Gregory Baum, Rosemary the general reader, they cast some light They are the total misunderstanding of Ruether, Monika Hellwig and A. Roy on previously neglected aspects of Merdevelopments in Torah teaching during Eckhardt have challenged fundamental ton's personality: his wit, his gregariousthe Second Temple period and the con- Christian assumptions about Judaism on ness, his diverse friendships...
...His Christian heart leans toward APOCALYPSE, by Ernesto Cardenal, New a peaceful solution, an "inner" upheaval Directions, $9, 78 pp...
...Klein's volume clearly demon- A CATCH of ANTT-LETTERS, by Thomas tinue to plague some of the popular strates that despite the progress made Merton and Robert Lax, Sheed, Andrews Anglo-American authors such as Wil- since 11 Vatican in the portrayal of and McMeel, $8.95, 116 pp...
...less than the sum of its parts...
...tion of Judaism ought to be ideally...
...sociate professor of religion at Catholic This is an anthology whose whole is Theological Union in Chicago...
...preceded by personal regeneration...
...To tianity...
...MICHAEL TRUE of our grievances on earth...
...sachusetts, and author of a study of Thomas The purpose of the work is to explore Paine for Scribner's American Writers "anticipatory democracy," a concept Series...
...As a consequence, unbiased approach to Judaism, heavy reading at times, the overall condestruction visited the Jewish People as a what is absolutely necessary is a clusion of the study cannot be ignored by just punishment...
...ers was that the Jewish people of this era would have proven useful...
...This stone in the construction of a new Chriscritical stance towards the New Testa- portrait is based almost exclusively on tian theological understanding of ment's portrayal of Judaism...
...coined by Alvin Toffler to describe an N. E. CONDINI is a freelance writer and cri- alternative to present-day political systic...
...Klein, to attempt to lems with clarity and precision, even Jewish sources...
...Judaism in Christian education, basic Although the private nature of their Two especially disturbing trends in theological issues .have hardly -been language makes these letters between Christian biblical scholarship's image of touched...
...FATHER JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, O.S.M...
...Miss Velma...
...At This book begins with a fable in free other times Che Guevara, Lenin, the verse about Francis Drake and plunges Jacobins of the Paris Commune are seen directly into a garland of epigrams that by the poet as "heroes" who fought to read like deflated versions of Catullus...
...It is regrettable world was found to be considerably bet- the statements of the gospel is a that the author failed to lay out at least in ter by Dr...
...Thus you never sionally burdened with self-pity...
...But as for me I stick to that old home Old Indian way of life...
...But the general conclusion of this self-imposed exile on the Greek islands legalists, as an exclusivist sect that stood study is that such theological rethinking of Patmos and Kalymnos and as Merton for everything Jesus condemned...
...Written betinuation of the stereotypical picture of a theological level during the past dec- tween 1962 and 1967, as Lax began a the Pharisees by most authors as rigid ade...
...Its continual Theology makes an important contribu- shared...
...Bit shake torpidity off our lives...
...But aside from some witty com- Apocalypse in an indictment against a ments about Mircea Eliade, Daniel Rops...
...Klein...
...I References to the "modern" age are am the people so why confuse the is- underscored again and again in sue...
...Some...
...But for Dr...
...and positive thinking killed Mayan and pre-Aztec civilizations, the him...
...This situation requires immediate The situation in the Anglo-American reconcile this presentation then with and profound correction...
...But some understanding of the Herford and George F. Moore...
...His work has appeared in The Village Voice and Review...
...and a few poems, avail- America is heading, in Trappist Cardenable elsewhere, the book is mostly just al's eyes, instead of towards the stars like good humor between friends...
...Ac- has on the whole remained peripheral to lived in semi-isolation at the Trappist cording to the Christian scholars she Christian theological reflection and bib- monastery, Gethsemani, Kentucky, they examined, the Torah tradition had be- lical scholarship...
...is as- Alvin Toffler, Vintage, $4.95, 405 pp...
...Klein's study...
...Some of the educated foolishness observance could thus only lead to tion towards building support for such is funny, as when Merton writes (August human perdition...
Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 6
