Religious Book Week Choices
Moore, Arthur J. & McCarthy, Colman & Brown, Robert McAfee & Neal, Marie Augusta & Swidler, Arlene
mannerisms are just slightly off. In the film, though not in the film. He ought to be, since it's better than his novel. In the book, there is an irony in the fact that the acceptance of Chance...
...The whole island...
...It is worth noting that the word House, $10, 203 pp...
...but the tone in personal belief...
...I I Religious Book Week: CRITICS' CHOICES II II I I I I Based on a series of lectures that Barth Another book which explores early Arthur J. Moore gave in the U.S...
...Scholars, among books for the last year that idid not -evangelical here is not used in any "con- them Father Brown, have tended to look begin with The Habit of Being, Letters of fessional, that is, in a denominational down their noses at Pagels's book as Flannery O'Connor (Farrar, Straus and and exclusive, sense...
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...gotten his name wrong...
...But we decide that it's all ters in the story, who don't know the truth, would utterly right, his being there, because we've noticed that he has on his misconstrue him...
...He argues where would you stop...
...He wants his mistake like this...
...We can tell that Ashby Sellers 6ndows Chance with the social grace of never making a has become impatient with merely being there...
...stomach it emotionally," but Flannery Press, $3.95,204 pp...
...Quite naturally, talking about, as always, is "the God of most of the attention paid to this marvel the Gospel" and how He approaches of a book has stressed its literary and man and woman...
...miracle that the annoying allusion to Christ scarcely occurs to Chance repeats everybody's name a bit too insistently, just as us...
...10013 lishing Company, $5.95, 206 pp...
...in 1962 and later ex- writings and communities--in this case, I I panded, this is a short compendium of not nearly so well known, is The Gnostic T WOULD BE difficult to compile al- Barthian themes and emphases in theol- Gospels, by Elaine Pagels (Random most any kind of list of favorite ogy...
...Sellers so underacts this has discovered that he can get approval from the world...
...loves his subject...
...Sellers wanders off from the funeral by The way Sellers emphasizes this knack Chance has, it might himself and comes to a pond in which he notices a fallen tree...
...Fortunately, time and remembers it from then on...
...As always with these Still, what counts these days is no "1 am most favorably imletters, it is a temptation to quote (but longer these confident affirmations of pressed both with the author's learning and the book's general tone...
...The he is...
...One of the best of these thor has made a valuable contdbution her own phrase, "the truth does not studies is The Community of the Beloved which should arrest the attention of change according to our ability to Disciple, by Raymond E. Brown (Paulist Jewish and Christian scholars alike...
...nize him as such...
...In ian communities...
...Chauncey Gardiner," she repeates thoughtfully,"You crypt in which the industrialist is being buried, for instance, is must be related to the Gardiners we know...
...I hear that Kosinski is very pleased with the rubbers...
...But other books a reprint of Karl Barth's Evangelical the writing is clear, the content is fas- Ktav Publishing House, Inc...
...Nowadays, the emphasis his case wwth great acumen and SUl>discussing these matters is both so per- is on Biblical study and the early Christ- ports it from recognized authorities...
...What Barth is being entirely too popular and insuffiGiroux, $15,617 pp...
...Theology (William B. Eerdmans Pub- cinating, and the author both knows and 75 Varick Street, New York, N.Y...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...He sounds the pond with his umbrella...
...be the only talent possessed by an idiot savant, a single way he He walks on the water to get to it...
...A small book on The Thomist reasoning about Trans...
...In the book, there is an irony in the fact that the acceptance of Chance discrepancy between him and Ashby, there has been room for among all his fabulous new friends results from their having Chance to grow, and for Sellers to cultivate him...
...but once he's Sellers's adroitness with these traits he invents for Chance is ascertained that he really is standing on top of several feet of that we, who know Chance to be a corhplete imbecile, recog- water, he loses interest and goes back to examining the tree...
...yet we can also accept that the other charac- We're a little startled ourselves...
...17.50 --Dora Aelred Graham, O.S.B., fully...
...ubstantiation is well understood and the O'Connor's letters show how she Johannine ecclesiology may sound for- author's tone is attractively modest and stomached it emotionally and beauti- bidding and, at the beginning, one does moderate...
...Chance the gardener," he mumbles In the closing scene of Being There, we can see Hal Ashby's when the industrialist's wife (Shirley MacLaine) first asks who worst instincts finally beginning to get the better of him...
...We often visit their a pyramid with a human eye gazing from its peak...
...The ,'dork is a notable achievement...
...by JACOB HABERMAN its great strengths...
...Sellers saves the day...
...Chance is a bit startled by what he has done, though only a he thanks people for small amenities a bit too effusively...
...The film explores an irony missed by the book when mood is getting ominously allegorical...
...the ausonal and so right as to be a wonder...
...There is a grandeur and MAIMONIDES biographical elements but its stature as a yet directness of tone here appropriate to AND AQUINAS record of religious faith surely is one of the subject...
...Chance gets everyone's name right the first movie to go somewhere before it's too late...
...have the feeling that Father Brown is Author of Zen Catholicism and seven Another work where the tone is fight is going to footnote the reader to death...
Vol. 107 • February 1980 • No. 4
