Religious Booknotes
Gerhart, Mary
SOME CITIES are called sacred the need of story in religious under- places. If they are sacred,...
...Lewis, suddenly converge in a single site - Bruno Bcttelheirn, contemporary Manhattan in a Woody Allen movie or -wwo real & storytellers, among others...
...would argue it out with provides recurring motifs through the F. F. Peters...
...bert's Rome: The Biography of a City and F.E...
...could do worse than Charlie Citrine's terpretations of Dickens's novels, subtle reply at the end of Saul Bel"Chestertonian...
...I'm a city boy my tentious book...
...about C.S...
...brief, moving stories and anecdotes Christopher Hibbert...
...Comparing The most intrepid imaginer o...
...5_24.95...
...He cites Chesterton's The Everlasting Man to More Than Meets the Eye: Ritual and argue for an artistic basis for myth...
...Glen others such as William Lynch...
...Talkien: Myth, early church (from whom Williams self...
...They must be crocuses...
...In his historical tour guide...
...these Bernini a "Barbarini man...
...to take a "creative stance in life...
...accounts for Tolkien's own lack of Paulist Press, $6.95 paper, 151 pp, clarity on some aspects of myth and gives a sensitive, critical analysis of that psyche needs imagination in order Tolkien's view of women in his work...
...voluminously and in different genres...
...ate treatment of the role of imaginaHarper & Row, $12.95...
...SOME CITIES are called sacred the need of story in religious underplaces...
...387 pp...
...Forthrightness about their impres- Four of the seven brief essays in A Peters's Jerusalem speaks in many sions is a common characteristic of the Chesterton Celebration examine his voices...
...relates Wil- is near the sidewalk...
...many layers of Roman history so that where all three quarters of the city Besides arguing, Chesteron wrote readers can keep their sense of direc- engage in reciprocal commerce...
...He retrieves tribunes come to extort more taxes, after-dinner address at the Chesterton both sacred and secular history in this the barricading of the city in times of Celebration in 1983 on the occasion of eminently fair and beautiful book...
...tales and Dante's Divine Comedy --- and failed poet Humboldt when he is One of the most intelligent discus- together with his literary strengths and asked what kind of spring flower that sions of fantasy literature can be found shortcomings...
...Eusebius, Sozomen, with excerpts from documents written Egeria, Muquaddasi, Maimonides, A Chesterton Celebration at the Univerby those who were attracted to the city Nasir-i Khusraw, Goethe, Chateau- sity of Notre Dame, edited by Rufus Wil- whether as ruler, archeologist, briand, and many others...
...96 pp, of the three major monotheistic reli- by these two legendary cities, is also engaged by the dreams, visions, and stories, poetry, and literary criticism...
...AlternatDublin in one of James Joyce's epiphanies...
...But this ter fight over their father's [A- book is remarkable as a source for Rome: The Biography of a City, by braham's] property...
...effects of Chesterton's work continue Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York...
...the Days of Abraltum to the Begin- tianity - that Jerusalem is their Holy This attempt, however, is convennings of Modern Times- City has made them, according to Pe- tional and does not draw upon the reIn his "biography" of Rome, Hib- ters, "neighbors in a narrow space, cent developments in theology...
...The essays as a low's novel, Humboldt's Gift...
...Wm.li- Eerdmans...
...The claim Human imagination...
...Purtill ped" version of the post-Vatican II thinks that both Gospel and original liturgy calls for the best aesthetic myth fulfill the "need for significant imagination...
...If we ask if there Clipper's "Chesterton on Dickens: A is any connection between dwelling in Closer Look" (in which we learn why Charles Willliams: Poet of Theology, by literary criticism still calls certain in- Glen Cavoliero...
...both the despair and the glory of the Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an city: the anxiety of the citizens when earlier source of such aperrius...
...by Rliitia Stone Dale, Loyola nally decided that Williams was too cal imagination...
...While Cathexile who brought pope and count Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of olics went to bed rather quietly drawalike to break with sexist protocol, Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and ing no attention to themselves [to and Urban VIII, the pope who made Prophets from the Days of Abraham to avoid being publicly slandered...
...Cavaliero...
...Patrick W. Collins draws both from his own experience cial note are his references to the way and from well-known theorists of that the Christian Gospels are both imagination to argue that the "striplike and unlike original myth...
...Owen Cavaliero, however, gives Williams Barfield, Susanne Langer, and John . undivided attention in Charles Wit- XXIII...
...He speaks of liturgical form," i.e., the ability to "relate the renewal as being "wounded" so long things that happen to us as parts of an as it lacks imagination, and he argues understandable whole...
...Richard theology of Duns Scotus...
...0,.,, I .'.;....r ,.ir...
...tion without getting lost in details...
...As its subtitle indicates, this writers who span the centuries: contributions in philosophy, detective chronicle of Jerusalem is constructed .losephus...
...Princeton, $35, 656 pp- anybody who would stand up...
...the book which never, of Tolkien's stories...
...historical or imaginary cities, w $8.95...
...He Parish Liturgy, by Patrick W. Collins...
...William Bausch makes his case for today: Frederick Crossan's "Father Commonweal: 310 different to he included...
...History and life can Living in cities tolktales, Franz Katka, C.S...
...He answers, in the first three chapters of an unpreliams theologically to writers of the "Search me...
...Charcially in the latter's revision of classiwhole show the effect of one person's lie is leaving the re-burial of his friend...
...ature of the "fantastic...
...readily stirred 1983, $9.95...
...If they are sacred, they Religious booknotes standing first of all by presenting a may provide moments in which 3 host of well-told tales from a variety `reality" discloses itself for someone of sources - Indian folklore, Italo who dwells or visits there in the flesh Calvino's collection of Italian or in imagination...
...invasion, the threat to crowds attend- the fiftieth anniversary of GKC's viFigures lost in less ambitious accounts ing liturgies that they might be tram- siting professorship at Notre Dame come to life here - for example, Cola pled to death, the maintaining and re- University, Frank J. Shoed recalled di Rienzo, the "messianic dema- pairing of the Temple and the Dome, how life for Catholics in England gogue" of the fourteenth century, the excitement of the daily bazaars changed just after 1900 thanks to Queen Christina, the unconventional Chesterton and Belloc...
...Lewis, J.R.R...
...imagined Storytelling: Imagination and Faith, by Two monumental books which re- William I. Bausch...
...we do so with imagination, L. Purtill differentiates among origi- More Than Meets the Eve: Ritual MARY GER A nal myth, literary myth, and philand Parish Liturgy is a careful, perosophical myth (or allegory...
...W. W. Norton- $25, Jerusalem plunges the reader into with religious significance...
...liam Rauch...
...Of spesuasive, well-exampled, and passionJ.R.R.Tolklen, by Richard L. Purtill...
...Finally, he distinguishes fantasy liter- Descriptions of how successful liturature from science fiction before gies came about provide a practical going on to do an illuminating reading dimension to...
...WARY 01:RHART teaches hermeneutics, reli- possibilities embodied in non- Two of these essays show that the gion, and literature at Hobart and William historical legends and stories...
...Morality, and Religion, by a derived the principle of "coinher- However real our reluctance to philosopher who, although he is a name things we think we don't know, ence" of the divine and the human) logician and metaphysician, has done and to the medieval incarnational perhaps what ultimately matters is that some fantasy writing himself...
...J.R.R...
...The last chapter, "Parable of Iiams: Poet of Theology and explores Ritual," relating liturgy to movement/ the ways that his poetic and theologi- and dance, is a must for any liturgist'ss cal imagination conic together in liter- consideration...
...199 pp...
...University of Norre Dame, tourist, or religious person...
...1.3+5 pp23 May 1986: 311...
...Chesand Charles Williams...
...Tolkien, The book is theologically informed by Drawings from The Art of G.K...
...however, becomes a superficial mat- EC 7AV"r`R6S y Purtill once tried to write a book L" ter of "how-to" for every situation...
...wrote that a writers of fantasy, Cavaliero discus- he conceived The City of God to refute Brown, Sherlock Holmes, and the ses Williams's originality - espe- those who blamed Christianity for the: Mystery of Man" and Lawrence sack of Rome in 410...
...1.54 pp- tion in liturgy...
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...Peters's Jerusalem: The Mary Gerhart ing stories with commentary, Bausch Holy City in the Eves of Chroniclers, also attempts to rectify the relationVisitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from gions - Judaism, Islam, and Chris- ship between narrative and theology...
...but says he fi- David Tracy's notion of the "analogi- terton...
...Hibbert the Beginnings of Modern Times, by two men...
...Twenty-thirdPublic•ucord such sites are Christopher Hib- tions, $7.95 paper, 232 pp...
...Williams with other twentieth-century cities, Augustine of Hippo...
...nor bert, a seasoned chronicler of other [where j they continue to debate their arc the stories themselves presented historical events and people, acts as a family ties and fight their sad and bit- with a critical understanding...
...cal epic material from the Arthurian imagination on several generations...
Vol. 113 • May 1986 • No. 10
