Five Gospels
Perkins, Pheme
thors: G.K. Chesterton and H.G. Wells. He sympathizes with G.K.C.'s passion and H.G.W.'s keen appreciation of science. He wishes there were a head and heart which combined their...
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...U I III III _9 I I Populism, pragmatism, & activism C. WRIGHT MILLS, AM AMERICAN UTOPIAN Irving Louis Horowitz The Free Press, $24.95, 341 pp...
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...Perhaps if these experiences had been more integrated into an understanding of what the Bible means in speaking of covenantal relationships in a world that is not just "nature and culture" but filled with the possibilities of the Spirit, the first 300 pages would be less tedious...
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...He wishes there were a head and heart which combined their strengths...
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...He even hints that all who have sought righteousness may enter the Dominion of God, though the Pharisees may suffer the considerable "humiliation" of being "least" there...
...God's unqualified love and mercy contains a demand within it to reject our versions of righteousness, which are conveniently cut down to human size and possibilities...
...Horowitz, a scholar of monumental thoroughness examines Mills's personal life, relations with colleagues, and the evolution of his sociological work with great subtlety and skill...
...Just as the Baptist's gospel is quite independent of later Christian appropriation of it, so, too, Jesus is independent of "Christian" preaching...
...My negative reactions to the last parts of this book stem partially from my own political biography...
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...Meagher, on the other hand, has a lively and engaging style that easily commands one's attention...
...From a scholarly viewpoint, the trickiest part of Meagher's book is on the fourth Gospel, and the implications of an obscure figure the Gospel of the apostles to focus on Jesus as mediator of salvation...
...The final redaction of the Johannine traditions incorporated this gospel with some of the older "gospels" to shape a picture of Jesus which embodies a number of traditions...
...This experience leads him to acknowledge the difficulty of wrestling with the world he has experienced on the presuppositions of a "result-oriented," calculating American psyche...
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...Bishop is fight in thinking that there are elements of that experience which are not adequately represented in our sense of the Bible, of sacraments, of relationships, but he has not been able to put the case together in a convincing way...
...John's earliest disciples took him to be the Elijah about whom the prophet had spoken...
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...He is the Paraclete, not merely the source of the Paraclete...
...He is lost in the details of Pentateuchal sources and various theories of covenant, introducing terms that no average reader could understand...
...Bishop's description of the persons on the soup line, the success and failure of systems of social services, the inevitable move to treat the activities of the House like a "business" all make provocative reading in the present-day climate of hostile debate about social services...
...The idea that there are quite different ways of proclaiming "good news" in the New Testament is common enough in scholarly circles, but is sure to raise some eyebrows among the general audience...
...He emphasizes the genuine diversity in the proclamations of "good news" that are found in the New Testament...
...For those, like Paul, who turned to the Greek-speaking Gentiles the message of Jesus as messiah proclaimeff freedom from the Law and thus shattered the boundaries of the chosen people...
...That gospel was able to counter the gospel of Demetrios by taking up the Beloved Disciple's proclamation of Jesus as the unique Son of God...
...Bishop, an English professor attempting to engage in theology, creates an overarching set of abstract categories to encompass the entire Bible as covenant...
...His analysis of the intellectual milieu which shaped Mills's development, and his discussion of American intellectual life in the 1950s is nothing short of brilliant...
...Bishop's literary analysis of the Gospel of Mark is generally lucid and filled with insights about the dynamic progress of the text...
...However, there are sections of Bishop's work which shed the dense abstraction and schematization...
...This book makes fascinating reading, though its Epilogue hides behind the claim of making an "historical reconstruction" and does not speak to the religious and theological questions that the named Demetrios from 3 Jn...
...Jewish Christians, on the other hand, sought continuity with the past in a new perception of the Law understood after the coming of the Messiah...
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...Instead, it found freedom from the restraints of traditional righteousness in a message of Truth that existed in the community...
...Bishop also writes in abstractions that lead to sentences that are impossible to decipher with any certainty...
...Salvation is found through knowledge of that truth...
...Meagher, who teaches both theology and English, takes the opposite tack...
...Meagher's book, by contrast, will engender lively discussion...
...A figure distinguished by profound political passions and moral fervor becomes, in Horowitz's hands, safe and sanitized, a pioneer as a sociologist, but a man whose political interventions were unworthy of his intellect...
...We meet John the Baptist calling for a renewal of Israel along the lines of the prophet Malachi...
...And the final section of the book, after an atrocious head trip about the break-up of the author's marriage, tells an engaging story of a sabbatical spent in a Catholic Worker house...
...Bishop's insecurity with the biblical field not only leads to generalizations and rejection of far better scholars than he, but it also leads to presentation in a manner that can hardly be suited to the general reader...
...Mark gaison I RVING LOUIS HOROWlTZ'S C. Wright Mills, An American Utopian is a fascinating intellectual biography plagued by a deep ambivalence about Mills's political activism...
...To me, Mills represented the quintessence of the politically engaged intellectual, someone who presented critical analyses of American society in commonsense language and who was unafraid to take unpopular stances on issues like disarmament and the Cuban Revolution...
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