The Courage of Conviction
Smith, Karen Sue
"types of God" that is important and writers, five religious professionals, two interesting in the history of...
...television, I have taken every opportu- JANET KALVEN nity to defend rationality and to discour- Living with brackets age the idea that it can be achieved with a minimum of effort...
...types of God" that is important and writers, five religious professionals, two interesting in the history of Christian teachers, and one artist in a pear tree - spirituality...
...Her most recent book is Image as 400...
...I submit that while these experiopposite sex, to use cocaine, or to wear ences may not negate our first amendthe tightest possible jeans...
...some of us ical theology at Harvard Divinity School and abandoned children in Hocduras (May 9 issue) should send contribuwill grieve that it does little to correct the the associate editor of the Harvard Theologiimpression that Christian spirituality was tions to: ORPHANS...
...Abortion, it seems to me, is historical time and place...
...Thus Rabbi Harold To the Editors: I was surprised and disKushner: `.`In recent years, I have come appointed by your editorial, "Right to increasingly to appreciate the role of the Free Speech" [March 14...
...6 June 1986: 349...
...The index lists three women In Brief there is a glaring absence of black clergy in a list of 175 names although a few and adherents of institutional religions more women than that are mentioned in THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION, edited in general...
...06770...
...The irk- bits of primeval dust" by Jane Goodall...
...by Phillip L. Berman Dodd, Mead, Variety in literary style and in subessays...
...build his projected orphanage for spirituality has been intellectually MARGARET R. MILES is a professor of historexplored and concretely lived...
...It is more narrow intellectual and geographical limREVIEWERS than just the hierarchy...
...Such an essay both irksome and ingratiating...
...It is the commuits...
...His latest book of poetry is The Father Frechette to buy bricks to Middle of the Journey (Univ...
...Because the and scientists, five show business per- one of those issues for many Catholics...
...abbesses and queens discussed by Bede Most recently a group of students has might have entered such a discussion...
...Cooper Union in New York City, recently In your editorial you try to make some the Christian tradition, as well as interested readers, will find this volume a edited Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Nauseful source of information and insight tive American Oral Literature (Univ...
...Perpetua, Egeria, and a few are deeply moving reflections (Continued from page 322) Hrothswitha, the Ancrene Riwle, or the on personal beliefs...
...rather, one would have at least acknowledged the rest of my soul starved...
...If book was otherwise so thorough and sonalities, four political leaders, seven I am not mistaken, rank-and-file Cathohelpful, I felt this omission more painful lics are fairly evenly divided on 'his isthan if the volume had remained within sue...
...ment rights, they do nothing to foster a "From lecture platforms and in per- healthy intellectual life in Catholic sonal contact, and even in speaking on higher education...
...exclusively a male phenomenon...
...could put that issue or those issues, io presence of approximately half of those While we are never told how the con- brackets - hold it in abeyance - until it engaged in Christian spirituality in every tributors were selected - eight doctors is resolved...
...Insight (Beacon...
...responsibility to cut out the banal and women to thirty pages of a 500-page belabored in the essays, and, worse, has book, but might have raised and analyzed from a historical perspective the question stuffed his introduction with both...
...17.95, 218 pp...
...Steve Allen combines his irresistible humor with a sense with it, even in an off-campus setting...
...of Alabama...
...of Readers who wish to enable on the diverse strands by which Christian California...
...Reason is not all...
...Box cal Review...
...In summary, scholars and teachers of BRIAN SWANN, a professor of English at nity of believers...
...Correspondence as to whether there is a distinctive wom- Even so, several essays are brilliant en's spirituality...
...And who is the church...
...Other highlights It would not have been too much to A collection of thirty-two essays by include stories by Jules Olitski and the expect a whole essay on women's "prominent contemporaries" which is questions about "the chance gyrations of spirituality in some part of the time period under discussion...
...A wise Cathoirrational in religion . . . I have come to lic theologian once advised that if there ence of women is so difficult to detect in understand that living and thinking ra- were certain Catholic teachings which a tradition that has willfully and/or tionally nourishes only the top two or were at odds with one's conscience, then thoughtlessly marginalized women three inches of my being, and leaves the one need not leave the church...
...of responsibility: "Man was not put on formed with the express purpose of lookEven an editorial lament that the pres- this earth primarily to buy philosophical ing for heresy in the classroom, reflectmerchandise before examining it, just as he was not put here to turn out hit record ing, I am afraid, the climate abroad in the albums, or to be utterly irresistible to the church...
...Naugatuck, Ct...
...need not have implied the isolation of some part is that the editor has shirked his K.S.S...
...Alexandria, 'Va...
...stance carries the book...
Vol. 113 • June 1986 • No. 11
