Discerning the Way
Baum, George
wife and show biz family at Rancho del Cielo above Santa he regularly does when telling about his father being fired on Barbara, travels the Ventura Freeway to a Hollywood studio, Christmas Eve in...
...drab year -- butone senses that he would have exchanged it for When he got his chance in the big league politics of the one of the leads in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or Humphrey television age he was ready...
...Why have had the distinct inconvenience of reaching only those who a game...
...Lou Cannon of the Washington Post says that conservative political spokesman...
...There have fallen behind something like 13-0 by the third inning, and were delegates at this year's GOP convention who were still Bud Detter's work, slogging on to the last out, would be very floating on the waves made by Reagan's speech sixteen years hard...
...The Christian doctrine of God and honors Jewish religion in the com- of Israel to the Gentiles...
...Dramatize, could hear his powerful but unaided voice...
...A short review will not be able to do REALITY access to the God of Israel and the divine it justice...
...He is by no means simply an "actor...
...wife and show biz family at Rancho del Cielo above Santa he regularly does when telling about his father being fired on Barbara, travels the Ventura Freeway to a Hollywood studio, Christmas Eve in 1931 or about America as a shining city on a and tapes an appeal to the old Main Street values far more hill...
...Thurs., Fri., Sat.: ACTION...
...And he had spent interesting...
...As a practiced actor he can bring tears to his eyes on cue, as WILLIAM LEE MILLER I It I H • "Books: IN THE LIGHT OF NEW EVENTS I T I HIS is an important, carefully rea- DISCERNING THE WAY enant, were already with the Father...
...His speech about the United States being the last "Island of Freedom" in the world moved conservative legions of the television audience to ecstasy, brought in millions for A last word about the Larks...
...Make it up...
...a genuine media talent reality can be a nuisance...
...suburban developments and sprinkled its spooky blue rectang- In the twilight of his career Reagan is playing a fairly good les into every living room, General Electric and Borax gave role --a conservative Republican candidate for president in a him a role as a television host, actor, speaker, and persuader...
...And in the '50s, as the new this story went around Hollywood: A man said, "I really and still more powerful medium sprouted its aerials across the didn't need a nuclear submarine, but I have one now...
...tion in Los Angeles he hit one into the upper deck of the center field stands...
...the simulation or re-creation of ago...
...Keep the action his lifetime with microphones and cameras...
...He did it again at the end of his acceptance speech this persuasive than those of his rivals, born-again squares from year when he couldn't keep himself from asking for that Plains, Georgia, and Rockford, Illinois...
...Christians experienced God as pre- mrve is drawn from German Jewish the Father except through the Son...
...It had been noticed thai...
...he was a movie star, In the days when he was doing the General Electric Theatre, in the era of movie stars., when Warner Brothers and MGM and Reagan once did an institutional advertisement about General Paramount ground out feature films for all the world --Sun., Electric's role in making the nuclear submarine, using the Mon., Tue., Wed.: ROMANCE...
...At the same thinker Franz Rosenzweig who, half a Jewish people, having received the coy- time, they realized that this presence did Commonweal: 598...
...but soned book that deserves close atten- A THEOLOGY OF THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN the Gentiles, those far away, had no other • tion...
...For years giving that very speech...
...That gave an idea, of course, to famous 'cross of gold' speech...
...Simulate all the way...
...The author, profoundly im- promises, except through Jesus Christ...
...Reagan had spent heighten, simplify, fill it with personality...
...tence in the Christian theological tradi- Seabury, $12.95, 207 pp...
...The sent to them in the Spirit...
...next same winning and persuasive manner he employed in selling week MYSTERY and TERROR...
...He came back to radio as a GE appliances...
...Hold the audience: The broadcast's the thing...
...At the 1964 Republican Conven- Bogart's role in Casablanca, orGeorge C. Scott's in Patton...
...moment of silent prayer...
...The details of this position are worked tion, has made a major theological effo'rt out with great originality and inner to re-think and re-interpret Christian Gregory Baum coherence...
...Rosenzweig ar- records the experience of the church that mon era until our own day...
...The principal gued that Jesus had spoken the truth was quickly becoming a Gentile enterinspiration for Van Buren's theological when he announced, "No one comes to prise...
...teaching so that it respects the Jewish The God of the church, Van Buren people as God's chosen race, retains a century ago, saw in the Christian religion argues, is the Trinity, Father, Son and sense that salw/tion comes from the Jews the extension of the wisdom and worship Spirit...
...David Broder and Stephen Hess wrote that that speech games by men of talent like Bud and Dutch could be more "was the most striking political debut since William Jennings engrossing than mere reports done by lesser announcers physi- Bryan electrified the 1896 Democratic convention with his cally present at the game...
...pressed by the negation of Jewish exis- Paul Van Buren This is the key to Van Buren's theology...
...But Williams Jennings Bryan many a satirist, and perhaps to many a sponsor, too...
...Fairly often, alas, they would Goldwater, and established Reagan as a political star...
Vol. 107 • October 1980 • No. 19
