The Eighth Sin:
Corwin, Phillip
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...
...To defend just war in this extreme liberation...
...They began with a heightened THE EIGHTH SIN, by Stefan Kanfer, Ranawareness of mass poverty and social dom House, $8.95, 288 pp...
...Offutt, Nebraska...
...Pope Paul VI's Octogesima Adve- devastating experience of a generation...
...the Chief of Chaplains, HQ USAF Worst of Times (Nelson-Hall...
...introduction to the complex problems of sed father of a foster child...
...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...
...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...
...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 tered dreams...
...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...
...about the political witch hunts of the again prove the most stimulating and re- 1950s, has given an admirable perforwarding...
...Izmir, The other characters in this novel are Years of Destiny...
...Andrew M. Greeley, The Best of Times, The phone 1-800-525-1964 or write: Office of Otis Hall, a black juvenile delinquent...
...Theological trends and interests provides the force that both propels the can quickly change...
...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...
...necessity, every opportunity must be speak of "all the topics that are mis- specifically, forgetting the Holocaust...
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...taken to deliver nations from the awful sing...
...There is Max, Benoit's JOHN N. KOTRE is associate professor of Chaplaincy is an international, ecumeni- stepfather, a leftist academic...
...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...
...But the "poor and narrative and allows him to endure...
...Andrews, Maryland...
...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...
...Mil- incompleteness, broken by history and sociate professor of philosophy at the Univerdenhall, England...
...and Benoit's wife Inger, a beautiful dis- PHILUP C'ORWIN is a poet, novelist and critic sipated folk singer...
...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...
...Travis, California...
...Though appear to conflict...
...The final escape the evil torment of his night- ecclesiastical pluralism...
...In "The Latin American mance in this, his first novel...
...Commonweal: 250...
...describes the evolution in the social In brief PHILLIP CORWIN thought of many Latin American bishops...
...For is not it a essay by Ignacio Ellacuria provides a marish history...
...Turkey...
...Lest we forget...
...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...
...should not allow to diminish in impor- of The Journal of the Plague Years, The Latin American contributions tance...
...If you stepmother, an artist...
...The Beckoning of Destiny and FDR: The Osan, Korea...
...Risa, his psychology at the University of Michigan and cal, inter-cultural parish ministry...
...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...
...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...
...who works for the United Nations...
...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...
...people of God need Catholic priests...
...Ramstein, gargoyles of a sort, avatars of the sin of FATHER ARTHUR F. McGOVERN, S.1., an asGermany...
...about Marxism/socialism...
...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...
...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...
...What is erty...
...The Eighth Bishops and Socialism" No Lesbaupin Sin deserves to be read...
...One hopes the editors are cor- Sins...
...HCX), Washington, D.C...
...Grissom, Indiana...
Vol. 106 • April 1979 • No. 8
