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have us get in touch with ourselves, but Though Gaylin fails to do justice to the breaks we must make as we climb our his approach is far quieter. It is cognitive: guilt as a...
...true of citizens and political leaders niens and recent church declarations The novel ranges through England, should be true a fortiori of the church...
...The final escape the evil torment of his night- ecclesiastical pluralism...
...Hubert Lepargneur, from Brazil, in Fox what is possibly the most significant essay in this book, offers the most practi- A dynamic, insight-filled reflection on problems and cal suggestions on how the church should solutions to global issues...
...about Marxism/socialism...
...Priority might have been given to Meanwhile, to Benoit, Holocaust is "a moral dilemma of nuclear war-to several important topics: the evolution of nothing category...
...The most interesting report is liberation theologians have been accused Christianity and Socialism certainly Michael Traber's discussion of African in the past of lacking self-criticism and contains enough good essays to recom- socialism in Tanzania and the uncertain criticism of Marxist ideas...
...Jealousy is not envy...
...Commonweal: 248 Passion alone does not produce good cussion of Vatican II's statement on "the the origins of Christians for Socialism in theology nor good church policy, and church of the pooor...
...History must in Canada, distinguishing between views numerous authors on Catholic sonot only be re-read but re-made in the Catholic and Protestant positions, and cial teaching to warn against naive aclight of a gospel which proclaims libera- between English- and French-speaking ceptance of Marxist methodology...
...A protect the interests of the collectivity, Baum, among the thirty contributors to scandal requires the exercise of an imshame in homogeneous societies, guilt in both volumes suggest a relative uncon- passioned imagination, of shame, for its heterogeneous ones like our own...
...describes the evolution in the social In brief PHILLIP CORWIN thought of many Latin American bishops...
...His think it so unhealthy to meet the expectaknowledge of psychoanalysis is diluted tions of others, to sacrifice "me" for with so large a measure of good sense the cleansing cycle of guilt, confession, "us...
...Is untrammeled self-expression that the book doesn't seem profound...
...tion in Jesus Christ, liberation which up- sectors of the church...
...There is Max, Benoit's JOHN N. KOTRE is associate professor of Chaplaincy is an international, ecumeni- stepfather, a leftist academic...
...Moidecai, an old the author of a newly-published biography of would like to be an Air Force Chaplain, Jewish carpenter who speaks in proverbs...
...The strongest of the seven for Be- "deterrence/non-use" posture-Hehir's rect when they conclude: "The theme noit is wrath- which in the context of the own stand on nuclear deterrence -makes will certainly return, even more ur- novel is transmuted to revenge-and it it seem as if nuclear war were only a mere gently...
...The Beckoning of Destiny and FDR: The Osan, Korea...
...In "The Latin American mance in this, his first novel...
...At an international level, the issues plains why...
...tian socialist movements and of church important distinction between class Gustavo Gutierrez is a case in point...
...What is erty...
...Izmir, The other characters in this novel are Years of Destiny...
...They began with a heightened THE EIGHTH SIN, by Stefan Kanfer, Ranawareness of mass poverty and social dom House, $8.95, 288 pp...
...but it calls for further development...
...Reaching the alien within ling over: "Feeling touched is the re- crawl, and to forgive is to set oneself up may be salubrious, but what of the alien sponse to the unexpected bonus...
...impaled on the spikes of their own shat- sity of Detroit, is writing a book on Marxism Around the world on Air Force Bases, the and Christianity...
...It is cognitive: guilt as a religious (as opposed to a psy- separate ladders of self-fulfillment...
...Mil- incompleteness, broken by history and sociate professor of philosophy at the Univerdenhall, England...
...reactions to socialism in several coun- struggle as a method of analysis and as a His essay on the poor in the church re- tries...
...Identification reflect the European origins of Coninvolves fusion of fate and feeling...
...Why Many of Gaylin's observations are as -Feelings do most of our psychological guides everyday as his subject matter...
...The opening essay repair...
...about the political witch hunts of the again prove the most stimulating and re- 1950s, has given an admirable perforwarding...
...hurt is the result of the entitlement not received...
...Popular guilt is out of place in a psychological naming them more accurately...
...the church" and "Christianity and Driven by revenge, Benoit hunts Eleazar REVIEWERS Jassy, a Gypsy Kapo who collaborated KENNETH S. DAVIS is the author of a twowith the Nazis, and has never been volume study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR: CAREER OPPORTUNITY brought to justice...
...relate to the poor...
...a eunuch of a Word," threaten to bring on nuclear catastrophe the church's teaching on private prop- hopelessly insufficient for describing the in order to avoid that very doom...
...Atlantic got the better of it, a CONCILIOM: 105 question of the connection between povchapter paying tribute to guilt, an emo- "CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM" erty and monopoly capitalism still retion that "serves the noblest, most Jean-Pierre Jossua and Johann mains small...
...The Eighth Bishops and Socialism" No Lesbaupin Sin deserves to be read...
...Correspondence injustice, then moved to a recognition of This is a haunting, virtuosic and woncapitalism as a root cause of these prob- derful novel about a Rumanian gypsy (Continued from page 226) lems, and some now openly espouse boy named Benoit, a survivor of the tarian pacifists should, to accept the shel"democratic socialism" as an alternative Holocaust, and his intense struggle to ter to be found under the umbrella of closer to Christian principles...
...He rejects a simplistic A, SPIRITUALITY NAMED The spirituality of compassion view that the Church should simply di- is the cushion, the healing, vest itself of all wealth...
...One can hardly fault the Chrisenvy separates us from our fellows, iden- "THE POOR AND THE CHURCH" tian groups and theologians who have tification joins them to us...
...Gregory Baum reports on the terpretations of Marx's use of class reveals himself "must be re-read from history of church reactions to socialism struggle...
...Though appear to conflict...
...It has the prime virtue of purist, sectarian stand to hold to just war good summary statement of the main being able to invoke an epoch, emotion- theory even under the shadow of nuclear theological arguments for a theology of ally as well as intellectually, through the war...
...people of God need Catholic priests...
...feeling for the next blow...
...But the church must chal- local bookstore...
...Chenu's dis27 April 1979: 249 authority of the Communist Party which socialism" are issues not likely to fade, Stefan Kanfer, presently book review viewed religion not merely with indiffer- and issues that a Christian conscience editor of Time magazine, and the author ence but as "socially harmful...
...Turkey...
...and Benoit's wife Inger, a beautiful dis- PHILUP C'ORWIN is a poet, novelist and critic sipated folk singer...
...The best of the Latin American book addresses...
...he asks...
...His reflec- Global Village, Humpty Dumpty and Us tions on poverty as a witness are also by Matthew Fox insightful...
...Hester Prynne in reflect pressing, major concerns...
...Alois Miller and Norbert Greinacher tried to awaken us to issues of world Excerpts from Feelings have already Seabury, $4.95 hunger and the poor in our midst...
...But the "poor and narrative and allows him to endure...
...Leninism became a "state ideology" in conditions without loss of hope...
...who works for the United Nations...
...it purports to be...
...an audience...
...One hopes the editors are cor- Sins...
...Pope Paul VI's Octogesima Adve- devastating experience of a generation...
...Andrew M. Greeley, The Best of Times, The phone 1-800-525-1964 or write: Office of Otis Hall, a black juvenile delinquent...
...It believes that to feel the concern of the actualized or the cry of there are subtleties one finds oneself mul- guilt is to be encumbered, to confess is to the desperate...
...HCX), Washington, D.C...
...it "retreats into privacy for series has served as a gauge for the best in both volumes...
...Ramstein, gargoyles of a sort, avatars of the sin of FATHER ARTHUR F. McGOVERN, S.1., an asGermany...
...Andrews, Maryland...
...Guilt interferes with without...
...But Rudolf Weile simply rethe viewpoint of the poor...
...introduction to the complex problems of sed father of a foster child...
...But the appeared in Psychology Today and the number who have raised the "structural" Atlantic...
...Does the presence of only one but as a "scandal...
...the areas in continental Europe, the United States Arguments from extremity create the which socialism and Christianity seem to and the Caribbean, in a style uniquely misperception that intentions are converge and the points on which they adapted to the bizarre existence of the shadowy insubstantial things...
...One-third and beneficent emotion-for shame re- Arthur F. McGovern of the authors are from Third World quires an audience while guilt precludes countries, primarily from Latin America...
...Guilt is just the opposite: private most important theological issues of the in The Poor and the Church perhaps exagony that wants exposure, that needs day...
...Available at your resources...
...But and forgiveness...
...cern about these issues, or does it simply elimination...
...How hunger, Fernando Bastos de Avila insists Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter experi- significant these issues have become for that if we are to find a solution to hunger ences shame, but her partner in adultery, U.S...
...The only true antagonist of envy .. . is identification...
...Of all the virtues, containment of the individual, for "putcon of almost classical labels for the ting it back where it belongs" instead of candor has always seemed to me nuances of inner experience...
...The inner wall, the book deliberately bypas- tional garbage...
...Grissom, Indiana...
...Commonweal: 250...
...To defend just war in this extreme liberation...
...At a time when need to be not merely honest but to ses the worn landmarks of sex and ag- impose your awareness of the truth self-assertive models of health are the gression and steers us to the small pas- vogue, he has the courage to praise the on others is more often an act of sions of everyday life: feeling upset, feel- violence and aggression than the restraints implanted by shame and guilt...
...have us get in touch with ourselves, but Though Gaylin fails to do justice to the breaks we must make as we climb our his approach is far quieter...
...phrase Kant, if passion without critical overall if one is looking for a thorough, Three western European authors take reason is blind, reason without passion is balanced appraisal of the issue which the up the issue of class struggle...
...In his Just and Unjust Wars, Michael socialism and Christianity, it also betrays The title refers to Benoit's conclusion Walzer argues that, though deterrence the editors' own realization of the in- at the end of the novel that the eighth and may be morally defensible by reason of completeness of the treatment when they deadliest sin is "the sin of forgetting...
...Fernando Castillo offers a brief essay on Russia, an ideology safeguarded by the Ronaldo Munoz draws an insightful distinction between two models of the church: "The great institutional church" and "the communications-network New church" with its sociological and cultural center in the world of the poor...
...Lest we forget...
...Philippe Warnier Two of the three essays on socialism in roots all injustice and exploitation and discusses "The Catholic Hierarchies of Eastern Europe draw rather negative brings friendship and love...
...A field "letting it all hang out...
...Giuseppi Ruggieri discusses the strategy of action...
...ing tired, feeling proud, feeling good, His praise is a minor theme in Feelings, generous sharing of knowledge that and so on...
...Author of Musical, Mystical Bear and Wheel, We, Wee All The best European contributions are the Way Home those of Sr...
...The volume contains spells out systematically the key quescontributions, it seems to me, contain several "informative reports" of Chris- tions involved, and none addresses the both reason and passion...
...should not allow to diminish in impor- of The Journal of the Plague Years, The Latin American contributions tance...
...Christians and theologians is less we must see it not simply as a problem the Reverend Dimmesdale, suffers silent certain...
...If you stepmother, an artist...
...Offutt, Nebraska...
...To solve a problem guilt...
...As CONCILIQM: 104 cilium...
...Aquinata Bockmann on the 89Winston Press 430 Oar Grove Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 New Testament's views of the church's attitude to the poor and Fr...
...Both stress how Marxismmust be soberly redirected to harsh new fully treats in his Marx pour un chretien...
...But Gutierrez Western Europe and Socialism...
...But, to para- mend it, but it is somewhat disappointing responses of the hierarchy to it...
...A we know our feelings better not by ex- chological) experience, his positive em- mechanism that benefits the communal, periencing them more intensely but by phasis sorely needs to be heard...
...The tered dreams...
...Boredom is not In other work, Gaylin has argued for We live in an age that seems to ennui...
...Theological trends and interests provides the force that both propels the can quickly change...
...He from makes this distinction not to direct a polemic against the institutional church but to spell out ways in which these two Matthew might interact...
...Chile...
...Travis, California...
...Matias Garcia-Gomez peats basic themes enunciated in his A history of Christian socialist movements does point us to important writings on the Theology of Liberation: "Human history in Italy and then focuses on the Italian issue (by Jean Guichard and Rene is where we encounter the Father of Jesus Christians for Socialism and their uses of Coste), and Kuno Fdssell clarifies misinChrist," and the history in which God Marxism...
...lenge the secular norm of "efficiency" of investment and decide how its posses- A Spirituality Named Compassion and the Healing of the sions can best serve the poor...
...intimate portrayal of an orphan, then as case is to say, "fiat iustitia, ruat If this volume serves as a worthwhile an adopted son, and finally as the distres- caelum," as surely as any pacifist...
...Shame is public agony over O VER the past ten years the Concilium Their contributions, moreover, are the wrongdoing...
...One conclusions about Marxist-Leninist realizes that the "exciting and enrich- wishes that he had addressed instead one socialism and its attitudes toward reliing" liberation hopes of a few years past of the issues he so forcefully and insight- gion...
...Humilia- psychotherapy wants nothing to do with mythology that is consummately indition is not shame, is not embarrassment...
...To feel used is to feel that our services have been separated from Theology in the face of a scandal ourselves...
...For weal or woe, both emotions North American theologian, Gregory requires imagination and reason...
...In Feelings Gaylin offers a lexi- worship candor...
...expiation, that hopes for absolution but raised in these volumes unquestionably Writing on the church and world will accept punishment...
...What right do I (with the possible exception of guide to the alien territory beyond the have to litter the environs with my emohumility) the least attractive...
...20330...
...Guilt, says Seabury, $4.95 theologians, on the other hand, is quite Gaylin, is not shame-an equally painful evident in these two volumes...
...necessity, every opportunity must be speak of "all the topics that are mis- specifically, forgetting the Holocaust...
...For is not it a essay by Ignacio Ellacuria provides a marish history...
...But none sterile...
...the Chief of Chaplains, HQ USAF Worst of Times (Nelson-Hall...
...vidualistic...
...From Winston without considerable material and human OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, Press...
...taken to deliver nations from the awful sing...
...Risa, his psychology at the University of Michigan and cal, inter-cultural parish ministry...
...appraisals of the pos- protagonist, and is parceled out under the threat to use nuclear weapons is sibilities for a democratic socialism and chapter headings of the Seven Deadly meant to be perceived as a real threat, the of tactics...
...generous and humane character traits that Baptist Metz The growing influence of Third World distinguish our species...
...It is difficult for COMPASSION the putting-back-together the gospel message to reach certain areas AND THE-HEALING of this fragile humpty-dumpty egg of a world...
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