Books of spiritual praxis
Gerhart, Mary
Religious booknotes Books of Spiritual Praxis Mary Gerhart OUT OF THE CACHE of books sent to me in three months is a potpourri of topics-on Biblical prophets, on the communities of L'Arche,...
...MARY GERHART teaches hermeneutics, religion, and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges...
...perhaps to keep this dimension from surfacing...
...Wiesel originally gave these five lectures at Boston University and at New York's 92nd Street "Y...
...In the Challenge of L'Arche, Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche...
...In some ways I just stumbled upon the world of mentally handicapped people...
...The Dynamics of the Provisional is written for a presumably adult audience on the possibilities and hopes of the young...
...Let us conceive of this class as a The Ordinary Way: A Fondly Spirituality, by Dolores Leckey...
...Each of the other scripts has a similar simplicity and self-effacement...
...Afire with Love: Meditations on Peace and Unity by Brother Roger of Taize brings together three previously published books, Dynamique du pro-visoire (1965), Violence des pacifiques (1968) and Etonnement d'un amour (1979...
...of losing, being labeled strange...
...These books provide an indispensable service by mediating between the best theological intelligence of our day and the best articulations of our human experience...
...community that hope is forever possible and it has an ever-changing face...
...Urgent problems had to await his visit...
...Initiates will find a good history of the field and a guide Family Therapy in Pastoral Ministry, by J.C...
...Vanier has since stepped down as International Coordinator and the community now has a Constitution and regional officers...
...through the theories that inform it...
...Their perennial interest for special groups taken for granted, what claim do these books-what used to be "practical" or "devotional" literature-have on a wider audience...
...The genius of Leckey's book lies in the way her examples make good the argument...
...Vanier links the ministry of L'Arche with liberation in his conclusion...
...Via-lent for Peace alternates reflection on political-religious issues and journal entries which reveal persona...
...Indeed one of the goals of the cursillo is to enable traditional Catholicism to "speak the language of its people...
...Prophetic Ministry: The Psychology and Spirituality of Pastoral Care, by Morton T. Kelsey, Crossroad, $12.95,210 pp...
...Religious booknotes Books of Spiritual Praxis Mary Gerhart OUT OF THE CACHE of books sent to me in three months is a potpourri of topics-on Biblical prophets, on the communities of L'Arche, homosexual counseling, family spirituality, family therapy, an anatomy of Cursillo...
...The cash value underlying good books in this genre, like The Ordinary Way: A Family Spirituality is believability...
...For example, an appeal to Derrida's "breakup of presence" is made to explain speaking, which plays a key role in the cursillo...
...of L'Arche, now a world-wide community with fifty-five houses: "I never meant it nor planned it...
...Wynn teaches pastoral theology and directs the Program in Family Ministries at Colgate Rochester...
...Five Biblical Portraits, by Elie Wiesel...
...Marcoux's careful book facilitates the fulfillment of that goal...
...Cursillo: Anatomy of a Movement announces an intriguing strategy: to study a movement in American culture in depth from an anthropological perspective...
...She has published a book and articles in philosophy of religion and literary criticism...
...She wagers, "The reward of winning is being taken for granted...
...For Leckey it is different to be a man or woman in 1982 from what it was in 1972...
...Jonah the unlucky, Joshua the lucky, Saul the complex, Jeremiah the tearful-all stride through semi-narrative episodes which the masterful story-teller weaves as a historical vignette of prophetic destiny...
...Brother Roger's book grow in immediacy...
...Cautious and generous on controversial issues, this nineteenth book by Morton T. Kelsey is worth the attention it demands...
...Vanier used to travel, like Paul of Tarsus, regularly to each of the houses to help solve problems, settle disputes...
...The result is a remarkably fresh look at humans in both family and by implication monastic life...
...Wynn, Harper & Row, $12.50, 184pp...
...new genre we will call "spiritual praxis...
...It stops just short of being a professional handbook by the authorial voice which predominates and because of chapter titles like "Games Families Play...
...This history of publication (the first book just after the Second Vatican Council, the second when student protest in France was at its peak, and the third just re- cently), is documented by a changing authorial voice as well...
...If we fail to "understand that the exotic is within us, as an inherent part of our culture" we will not be " able to handle the unusnalness we perceive in others...
...introduces seventeen accounts of indi-viduals who have joined or begun Christian houses for the mentally handicapped...
...his disappearance is as mysterious as his appearance...
...Leckey is Executive Director for the U.S...
...Marcene Marcoux sees the cursillo's survival as a "struggle for understanding, competing with other activities to be considered meaningful and, thus, familiar...
...struggle with changing structures and values Contrary to the Table of Contents which indicates a different structure, each of the chapters in The Wonder of a Love begins with a brief comment and prayer followed by journal entries...
...Fully informed by Jungian and other social-scientific theories, the special focus of Prophet-ic Ministry is on ministry to the lonely, the homosexual, the violent, and the dying...
...and explains the cursillo lucidly, if eclectically...
...The charm of Saul, Jonah, Jeremiah, Elijah, and Joshua is in their extraordinariness...
...Elie Wiesel's Five Biblical Portraits is believable in a quite different way...
...Spiritual praxis is uncommon common sense found in the rediscovery of essentials, the quick perception of hidden congruities, the fleeting realization of the unknown in the too-familiar...
...Dolores Leckey dares the implausible-an analysis of family values, relationships, activities in the light of Saint Benedict's Rule...
...Is there a touch of class to gather them up in a net of general significance...
...Moreover, not to see the exotic within us is to domesticate the alien, "hoping Cursillo: Anatomy of a Movement, by Marcene Marcoux, Lambeth Press, $14.95, 284 pp...
...Narratively sophisticated and tentative, they are above all memorable...
...Family Therapists You Should * Know," and "Seventeen Often-Asked Questions...
...Crossroad, $7.95 paper, 156 pp...
...He responds to our inner need: he is...
...The historical events mirrored in...
...Vanier is a charismatic figure who is surprised at the growth The Challenge of L'Arche, by Jean Vanier, Novalis, $9.95 paper, 286 pp...
...Morton T. Keisey's Prophetic Ministry: The Psychology and Spirituality of Pastoral Care continues his work of bridging the gap between psychologies of experience and spiritual direction...
...Bishops' Committee on the Laity...
...traveler who arrives at the right moment, at the right place, to prove to a despairing person or...
...Wynn's Family Therapy in Pastoral Ministry is the product of Seasoned experience...
...Here is Wiesel on Elijah...
...The book describes Afire with Love: Meditations on Peace and Unity by Brother Roger of Taw Crossroad, $6.95 paper, 192 pp...
...the secret emissary who advises the price to revoke his evil decree, the...
...University of Notre Dame Press, $9.95 paper, 157 pp...
...J.C...
Vol. 109 • September 1982 • No. 15
