Religious booknotes
Gerhart, Mary
Religious booknotes Conscience, creativity, & controversy Mary Gerhart IOHN HENRY NEWMAN was fond of saying that, with respect to past theological controversies, one I rethink and decide for...
...This book is a revision of essays given as the Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1982...
...two "portraits" ia cosragt...
...the sociology of knowledge and authority, consensus fidelium and B*mtuem*T*mct, by Peter Hinchliff...
...Peace Makers, to we fee title of Michael Trues collection of feirty...
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...Stephen Crttes...
...old oonsensus on conservative values in all aspects of life gave way to a spreading social and political diversity," The A New Engegment: Evengelical Pallical Thought, 1966-1976...
...the case is a "way station" hi fee history of one nation's growing cooaciousness of historical lnequities - a consciousneas which can sufTer relapae as well as development...
...a paaca u± dvist who died la 1912 at age twaaryfour...
...by Micheal Tree, Twenty Third Publication $5.95 Paper 160 pp Tolstoy...
...Robert Booth Fowler demonstrates that unpredictable changes can happen in a short time...
...298 pp.________________________ book weaves this diversity into a complex but easily readable history...
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...We might well turn around this advice and say the same for future controversies...
...by Robert Booth Fowler, Eerdmaas...
...The following books on politics and religion offer occasions to rethink the positions whkh are likely to be reflected in the agenda of the upcoming synod called by John Paul II for this autumn...
...They appear at once individual aad appropriabio...
...The same issue resurfaces in another chapter, "The New Man and the New Woman...
...The author spent most of his life in South Africa and draws many of his examples from there...
...University Prm of America...
...Both feminism and resistance to women's liberation, for example, are featured in his accounts of representative events...
...What we become as a nation Is determined not by the past, but rather by the "present and past . . . interacting in a single dialectical process...
...In the last aaalysis, what fea synod needs most urgently are met aad women who are Justice Settert...
...Although Daniel Schipani's Con' scientization and Creativity is a faithful presentation of Paulo Freire's wock...
...theaa lives need mar demythologizing...
...The book will challenge both conservative and liberal consciences and could provoke more self-critical synod debate...
...demo-kratia...
...Christopher Moooey's Inequatity and ik(($i*rkm Ccnscience: Justice (*ro*ffr tkt Judicial System is a idea...
...He parts company with theologies of liberation when they demand action in the absence of moral considerations...
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...Religious booknotes Conscience, creativity, & controversy Mary Gerhart IOHN HENRY NEWMAN was fond of saying that, with respect to past theological controversies, one I rethink and decide for oneself which side one would have taken had one been involved...
...Hinchliff is to be commended for his attempt to mediate the widely divergent positions on current political crises, including that of nuclear warfare, as well as those in particular countries...
...Hanaaa Areadt...
...and human rights in the church...
...Moneey understand laws to be ques tion and generation of furter queapaatiant, $5.95, papre, 136 pp...
...lioait "law exteta ia the dialogue bettMtea fee power to question and the power lo penuade...
...His conclusion — that "the further rise of pluralism" is likely to be welcomed by many reflective evangelicals and Commonweal: 310 will be seoognizttl as betag mx witbio Catebcwn at wel...
...rights and freedom within the church are implicit in any other concern...
...Peter Hinchliff's Holiness and Politics doesn't break new ground but does provide a valuable self-critical analysis on "conditioning" in both the political and religious senses...
...Mooaey malatains...
...Fowler distinguishes between evangelicals and fundamentalists and tries to assess the lasting effects of the growth of '"evangelicalism" since 1976...
...He retards the Saonoe Cosrt at having a special voice la feat dialogue, a voice capable of calling people aa a aatkw to an J^aBB^BBB^BBBB^BKMa uK ^vUaiHCajs^^flDC ^JCSOKOC the lack of unanimity amoag the judges (feerc were six opinka* and two majorities), the Bakkt cut was, for Mooaey, an example of judicial Mtesraaaa&ip that reaolved, perhapst io fee beat way poacibla for that time, ftescety conflicting claims and competig values...
...Theat brief (5-6 page)aocounts none well known pvbbc figure (for aajtajalu...
...and liberation neoiogiaw) But fee beat contribution of fee book is to be found in its focos on creativity — whether in the simple exercise of learning phonemes or ii the practice of cultaral revolatioa underetood as ' 'recomtructionism...
...is rooted ia a powerful reo'gloas coovk'tioo, Mooaey reviews fee Bakke case (which denied fee legality of qaotas in effiflnatrve action progrea)s)ead tabsequent deveioptnencs (op to the sppotaoaim of Clareoce Peodleton m thelewCheck of Commission on Ovfi Rights) eader the Reeges administration...
...The topic of women and ordination, although not central, appears occasionally and is itself helpfully contextualized as an example (albeit by all male contributors...
...For many, the issues of human AmknH} In aW Ckmnk mmd ** SchOhpwcto Cwt, wilted by l.f oord S wfcMcr aj»d Ptet Fmaaeo, Crocaroad/ContumuB, S9.9S paper, 267 pp...
...Deniel and Phil Berrigan, Dorothy Day, Bagaaa Data) and others leas widely kaown (the flm portrait is of Joha Leary...
...edited by Leonard Swidler and Piet F. Fransen...
...Schipani distinguishes berween fea "eariy" and the "later" Prefer and suggesu that Freire's own use of Marxist categories is not intrinic to an appfoprianoo of bis method...
...Joha Heory Newthat, and Thomas Paine, fee book is dnwa wifea deft hand...
...Eerdmaas, $7.93, paper, 213 pp...
...The theological perspective ht feufbook is mated but acnaaaive...
...The process Mooney lays out Fntn mi Cristian Education...
...He documents one decade of significant change in evangelical Christianity in his historical study, A New Engagement: Evangelical Political Thought 19661976...
...American readers will appreciate the relationship Schipani draws between Freire and other feeorists (such as Rollo May, Bernard Looergan, Arthur Koestkr...
...One of the most thoughtful contributions to these issue* is Authority in the Church and the Schillebeeckx Case...
...MARY GEJIHAJIT U professor of religious ttudUs*Habart and WWiamSmith Colleges in Geneva, New York...
...Jean Piaget...
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...B«t progress oa fee isaaes —•' - (hrougjb work occaakoaed by, eveo IK not directly related so, fea syneod - may be jhust as decisrve to fee ling run...
...are oeat Charecterised as occ tesaporary aaglograpay...
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...What he finds is that "as evangelicalism . . . came more and more often into contact with the broader culture, the...
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...it is also critical and creative...
...Ending with Lucy Stone, Leo Justies Seekersv Poser Makers $2 Persries in Courages...
...In a few yean fee syaod wifl be paa) hissory...
...The topic of ideology receives one of its best treatments in the articles by Edward Schillebeeckx and Franz-Xavier Kaufmann...
...The other articles, papers originally from the International Colloquium on Authority in the Church held in 1981, address broad topics such as authority and ministry...
...by Daniel S. Schpeni...
...The title may unintentionally mislead the reader into expecting that the entire book addresses the "Schillebeeckx case" whereas only one article, the last, is an explicit analysis of that controversy...
...Her most recent book is MNapboric Process: The Cremkm of Scientific tad Rdi(iout Underttsadtag, co^uthored with Allan KusseU (Tom Christum University...
...4 V9 serves as an analogy for what can aad should happen in the synod...
...The author is a professor of psychology, counseling, and education at Seminario Evangeltco de Puerto Rico and wrote this book originally as a dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary...
...Mooaey's interpretative principle is unequivocal: we Interpret history by our present-day experience...
Vol. 112 • May 1985 • No. 10
