Correspondence
Correspondence Negative thinking Shaker Heights, Ohio To the Editors: I differ with many of Martin Green's points [Mar. 26], especially as to the quality of Chariots of Fire. As a Christian, I...
...If a non-theologian could add a thought to Father Moore's question on the meeting with the resurrected Jesus: Even the encounter with the Risen Christ cannot compel faith or conversion...
...O'Brien regards as youthful arrogance...
...FRANK C. ARRICALE, II Foundation of hope Winnipeg, Manitoba To the Editors: Whatever might be said for the juxtaposition of John Garvey's "The Reality of Easter" and reactions to Sebastian Moore's "Experiencing the Resurrection" in the one "Education Issue" of Commonweal [Apr...
...I thoroughly appreciated the issue...
...p. 332, ffolkes, Punch...
...O'Brien states...
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...The Roman bureaucrats may have a point in questioning the theologian from the Lowlands...
...To the Editors: These few thoughts were stimulated by Tom O'Brien's generally fine review of Chariots of Fire [Apr...
...p. 327, Scully...
...Liddell it was positive, though often difficult (not mutually exclusive attributes...
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...23], but especially by his perception of one character, Liddell, and the way he...
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...Nevertheless, I saw Liddell differently, not as a self-aggrandizing solip-sist, but closer to a mystic in running shoes, whose words, "When I run, I can feel His pleasure," convert his athletic power to a form of prayer...
...Such a meeting is still in time and is still subject to all the obstacles impeding our responses to a plethora of graces and gifts from God...
...Perhaps Father Schil-lebeeckx has some clarification or correction of his own writings to do lest he remind us too much of nineteenth century exegetes who felt they had to explain away the miraculous in Jesus simply because their philosophies had no room a priori for supernatural thrusts into the here and now...
...Father Moore's clarification of his own position made me rethink my own Pavlovian tendencies to damn the Curia whenever Vatican ecclesiastics get into theological fights...
...I guess, where freedom is allowed to coexist with the possibility of evil, danger will be part of the landscape...
...DAVID P. COGAN Rejecting the Risen One Bayside, N.Y...
...I would go one step further, however, and say that what it means for the church (objectively) is very much dependent on what it means to me and to all of Jesus's disciples, as is for us what it meant to the Twelve (including St...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...After Jonestown who would have the temerity to disagree...
...To the Editors: John Garvey's resurrection article and the letters of John Cort and Mary Spencer [Apr...
...For Mr...
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...Thus Mr...
...Insistence on personal vision - almost private communications with God - is arrogant, and with some 'true believers' even dangerous...
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...330, 335, 340, Antonucci...
...But it was another juxtaposition in the same issue that impressed me more, viz., that of this debate over the reality of the resurrection and the article by James Weiss on religious studies, "Studying the Other Dimension...
...Furthermore, the character is shown weighing advice and criticism, open to self-doubt, and acting inconsistently with his own pleasure...
...Illustrations: Cover, pp...
...The Witnesses' meeting, speaking, and eating with Jesus do not have the same dimension as the departed meeting Jesus face to face in eternity...
...it is his Christology, not his attitudes to the Holy Office which causes concern...
...9], it is certainly an illustration of how central the event of Christ's resurrection is to Christian faith, its very touchstone...
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...It was not hard at all to pay attention to his words, which did not seem to be "a quotation, offset on the page," to myself, my wife, and to several friends with whom I spoke about the film...
...That it seems to mean so much to all of us is the foundation of our hope for the future of the church, of Christian education, and of the world both are meant to serve...
...Perhaps that (Continued on page 351) Correspondence (Continued from page 322) makes the character a creation-centered person, one who Sister Camille Anne Campbell would say sings, "Let all that is within me cry holy...
...Clearly all film criticism starts with oneself and is meshed in self throughout, so to criticize a critic's perceptions is, I suppose, a bit silly...
...Moreover, strict Sabbath observance, now mainly the province of Orthodox Jews, can be positive or negative - depending totally on one's personal approach...
...While we are still in via, rejection, backsliding, and indifference are possible even during and after the Glory of Easter...
...As a Christian, I found it enormously refreshing to have a character portrayed - the person of Eric Liddell - who was strong,' vibrant, and who actually behaved as though religion were a vital part of his life...
...I would go further than Garvey and side with Moore when I reflect on my faith in the Lord Jesus redivivus: what it means for me (subjectively), as well as for the first of Jesus's disciples is as important as what it means for the church...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...p. 333, Weber, N.Y...
...Green's pickings could only seem unduly negative, a product perhaps of an environment that encourages strenuous criticism of that which dares to idealize...
...PATRICK GORDON Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...DAVID WALSH Running with me, Jesus Gloucester, Mass...
...And we're touchy about our touchstones...
...appropriates God's 'pleasure' to his own," in what Mr...
...329, 334, 336, 337, Bas., Tachydromos, Greece...
...9] were not only inspiring Holy Week reading but they were helpful confirmation of a Catholic liberalism firmly rooted in orthodoxy...
...Weiss's lucid description of the meaning of "mystery" in religion might be helpful to Garvey, Moore and their critics in placing the reality of the resurrection (or better, of the risen Christ) in the realm where it belongs, where the merging of objective event and subjective experience makes for holiness...
...It is good to point to the potential dangers connected to personal vision,-but don't forget the history of prophets, mystics, and reformers at variance with an equally dangerous corporate arrogance...
...However, I found this to be so strong and so uplifting a film that Mr...
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Vol. 109 • June 1982 • No. 11
