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mining of its harbors nor the printing of...
...Using liographic references is hardly for the values surfaces...
...Sheehan also ne- Order or by check on a U.S...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...But the troubled fleeting but for those who wish to explore book about what happens to people when thinker can use Modern Sciences and the interface between science and they are overwhelmed by events and Human Values as a very readable guide...
...Sheehan cites the public Mass in (Continued on page 412) but "What is to be done...
...I hope so...
...His treatment entists promised self-control within when it is presented as the proper (one is of the "medicalization" of life, discus- guidelines set by the National Institutes tempted to say exclusive) mission of the Commonweal: 412 church in Central America, two ques- the center" freed him from responsibility I tions come to mind...
...Hav- cardinal appeared at the United Nations two-year rate: U.S., $49...
...the backwash of tragedy an opportunity struct a science that does not re...
...you predicted, the article caused disap- stand of some members of the church • Sheehan presents a picture of an pointment (in Commonweal's judgment) plays into the hands of internal and pow- absolutely polarized church in Nicarand indignation (at the author's presump- erful external counter-revolutionary agua...
...1: Basic Elements and Methodology In an Ethical Theology TRUTZ RENDTORFF Three basic elements of an ethical life are presented in Rendtorff's foundational study of "ethical theology" as a prelude to a comprehensive analysis of the methodological study of ethics...
...We want a rev- content of the Gospel...
...much needed in theology today...
...vigorating discussion of the Rasmussen If one accepts Lowrance's notions of (Continued from page 386) Report, a $4 million Reactor Safety permanence and transience, it is logical in [his] article...
...A book with thirty-three pages of bibto sharpen our appreciation of human Lowrance makes neither mistake...
...As has taken sides...
...Telephone: (212) MU 3-2042...
...Yet we know that there is a large tion, at the quick way in which confusion forces...
...Canada, $30...
...Special diplomacy than by proxy warfare...
...But our Three Mile Island William R. Ayers methodological error...
...guan situation in its "messiness," you those "religious activists'.' who, in their To the Editors: Your editorial, "In Mes- also lent support to an extremely limited ideological innocence, give allegedly siness, Veritas" [May 9], may have and outdated view of the Catholic uncritical support to the Sandinista re- served its readers better by pointing out church's mission in Central America...
...The choice of the word proteins according to a reproducible the Latin American bishops met at "interface" is emblematic of the seman- blueprint for biological activity...
...by the media in support of a certain posi- the government of Nicaragua...
...Or that politi- people see him as a contra sympathizer, the whole truth...
...Such a snapshot laden or "meta-analytical" consid- over recombinant DNA research...
...Even if all its factual allegations are ROBERT G. HOYT ticle ["The Battle for Nicaragua," May accurate, the emphasis is wrong...
...not only published Edward Sheehan's arfails...
...bank...
...AND HUMAN VALUES jectivity, and the idea of professionalism You may wish to quarrel with Lowand responsibility are not only topical but rance's characterization of the interface William W. Lowrance understandable...
...TIMOTHY A. BYRNES some better material on the subject, as I We regret it was not included in the trust and plead that it will: article...
...stringent sanctions...
...Farewells from the Bonhoeffer Family Edited by EBERHARD and "It is daring in its scope...
...His approach respects the autonomy of both ethics and theology and is able to engage other disciplines in open dialogue...
...not only Father Molina is used Philadelphia, Pa...
...He calls technical prog- strict regulations imposed...
...10016 What about the actions and policies of his beleaguered country, not even the Commonweal: 386 size them up like they was a stack of beer fly out without knocking down the whole of Health and accepted the understanding glasses...
...10016...
...role in N.Y...
...We are told the ways in which To understand the debate, read the book...
...Congress, the U.S., $28...
...the do-badders...
...Your penultimate paragraph makes (Obando) sympathizes with the contras Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly a reference to some Americans who op- and hopes for their eventual victory...
...But, as you didn't say, cal unrealism on the religious left is more and Sheehan should concede more than a engagement also requires a, balancing offensive than militarized fanaticism on grain of truth...
...First, could this be to take sides...
...You listen and you look real stack...
...Canada, $53...
...Sheehan on the relative merits only a too-confident ideologue, his false urging readers to seek "the whole of the "traditional" and "people's" statements about Nicaragua shape the truth...
...JOHN D. GODSEY paper $7.95 UNMASKING THE POWERS The Invisible Forces that Determine Human Existence ECONOMICS AND ETHICS WALTER WINK A Christian Inquiry "One of the most powerful and incisive treatments of the evils which J. PHILIP WOGAMAN afflict our society and our church that I have ever read...
...Nor, to my knowledge, has the Foundation...
...segment of the population which is spreads...
...foreign, $33...
...He avoids a common between science and the humanities as Oxford, $24.95, 209 pp...
...You 9], but also endorsed it so strongly in acknowledge Mr...
...Sometimes in man...
...policy on the contras...
...And second, what was it Marx To state the following points seems first brought news of the Carmel of said about the opiate of the people...
...crystallographers an interface is a nearly now call genetic engineering...
...The Medellin and Puebla and identified tic thickets one will get into here...
...interface," is the focus of discourse on dictated cellular activity by encoding It was in order to reverse the church's the subject of the relation between sci- specific sequences of aminoacids into image as an apologist for repression that ence and value...
...But Ronald Reagan is our presi- deficiencies in Edward Sheehan's I am not prepared to enter into debate dent...
...for , their part, philosophers con- port played a preventive role...
...paper $9.95 reality as the spirituality of an epoch, a nation, a congregation, nature, or the psyche...
...In return, sci- Nicaraguan poor is, on its own, laudable, ress a "directed tragedy...
...In post-revolutionary Nicaragua we must hope that the church will soon be publication of Edward Sheehan's article every act is political and every institution free of the burden of having to justify "The Battle for Nicaragua" [May 9...
...cardinal ever protested the U.S...
...Copyright © 1986 Commonweal blindness and rhetorical excesses of the sides...
...It is likely the value-laden, metaCAN anything good come of the Cher- typically set up philosophy as a straw analytical portions of the Rasmussen Renobyl disaster...
...Study conducted in the mid-1970s for to expect him to discuss renegotiation of Mr...
...The attention may be illustrative case studies, he has written a summer escapist...
...He chose of its revolution against unequal forces at church, that supports the revolution and to abandon his scholarly resources in the cost of reconstruction, so is the popu- still worships in a traditional way, and favor of a journalistic job in which the lar church losing precious energy fight- has a heightened awareness of the social juxtaposition of a few statements com- ing for the right to exist...
...gratitude to Germaine Ribiere, who pressed...
...foreign, ing mentioned those views, without en- to condemn the "persecution" of the $59...
...Second-class postage paid at New which is directed against the perceptual except to bemoan killing "on both York, N.Y...
...And, finally, it requires that in this instance there was no need to Ithaca, N.Y...
...science-watchers, I recommend Modern numbers...
...Sheehan does make a convincing churches of Nicaragua...
...In your inogically-derived "nonchalance" about Writer oversight vitation to find the truth of the Nicarafacts, but the weight of criticism falls on Ossining, N.Y...
...gime...
...A 1985 publication by the is an exposition about what to do for the Director of the Life Sciences-and-Public . future Not unlike Toffler's Future Correspondence Policy Program at the Rockefeller Uni- Shock, it is about the death of permaversity, it fortuitously includes an in- nence...
...Therefore, To the Editors: I deplore Commonweal's tion...
...the relationships between science and harassment of the Catholic hierarchy is a Termed by Lowrance an "archetypal human values as time advances...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Commonweal, 232 Madison Ave., New York, do-gooders...
...Etta might have made a superb that breaches of the agreement, even acclose until you see which one got the fly coach in the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, cidental ones, would likely trigger more on it...
...Though Semantics aside, Lowrance has his se- points out, no new laws were passed or this respect for the devotion of the quences straight...
...ally exist...
...mining of its harbors nor the printing of Correspondence the manual promoting terrorism within I his country...
...taking a stand...
...Sheehan implies that Sandinista the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
...Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by pose support of the contras as cruel and The writer overlooks, however, that at Commonweal Foundation, 232 Madison Ave., foolish, or who believe that legitimate the height of the recent aid-to-the- New York, N.Y...
...will provoke many important discussions...
...Or possibly, in FRANK MAUROVICH of a messy and clouded situation, like the some other editorial that I missed, you've in ,Nicaragua, that are host relevant ranked these political sins differently, so Snapshot analysis to policymaking...
...Sheehan seems to want to turn this impenetrable boundary...
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...It is certainly not controversy arose because a scientific historic "option for the poor" into a prothe medium for free bidirectional ex- dream materialized before the dreamers gram which provides "the consolation of change - as was once the case when were ready for it...
...It W. Lowrance...
...I finished it with a sense of pride mon foundations...
...Most other commentators on the stewardship, or prefer as I do, the notion intersection of science and values make a of a covenant...
...pitfall...
...RENATE BETHGE -ROBIN W. LOVIN IG O O ". .. always thought-provoking and sometimes so .. a dialogue between a systematician and a moralist about compoignant as to be painful...
...industrialists READERS RESPOND known to be active promoters of the contra cause, and accepted an award from an New Ydrk, N.Y...
...Science and Human Values by William we adapt or fail to adapt to the present...
...Unlike him I policy of his administration and have far argument for many, including myself, have never been to that country and, in greater effect in Congress than all the who have been underestimating San- fact, I read with great interest his intestimonies and rebuttals offered by all dinista authoritarianism, but his attempt formative interviews with leaders of the those activists whose purported naivete to portray Cardinal Obando y Bravo as a two factions...
...MORTON The author offers a fresh look at current economic problems- KELSEY A fascinating interpretation of the "spiritual powers" that in productivity, equity and security, employment and educational op- ancient times were perceived as personal beings but are portunity, conservation, and a new world economic order-in the shown to be expressions of the hidden interiority of light of human needs and Christian values...
...the truth, analyzed, Reagan is right...
...Reagan's ideol- your accompanying editorial...
...seek and engage the truth, the whole To the Editors: I am surprised that you In these respects, I think the editorial truth...
...act, an effort to point up those elements the ideological right...
...However, one does not you find so disturbing...
...Indeed function of the comandantes' Marxistanalytic exercise," The Rasmussen Re- he does precisely this, using another Leninist ideology and their subsequent port contained literally pounds of value- example ftom the 1970s, the controversy repressive tendencies...
...Yearly subscriptions, U~:S interests can be better served by contras debate in the U.S...
...the sacraments, the rosary, the chanted physics constituted a branch of Aristote- The ensuing clamor led to compromise litany to the Virgin that helps them [the lian philosophy...
...dollars by International Money dorsing them and without mentioning church in Nicaragua...
...Just as Nicaragua is an embattled neither organized in comunidades de Sheehan is hard to refute because he country having to defend the costly gains base nor a part of the anti-Sandinista hardly makes any points at all...
...The superficial approach In her article "Contemplation & what the bishops had in mind at Medellin serves well the cause of ideology and Controversy„ [June 20], Eva and Puebla when they pledged the gives us a picture without depth, yet not Fleischner wished to express her church's solidarity with the poor and op- without pitfalls for the uncritical reader...
...that there were such sensitive, loving, and courageous people in -KENNETH R. HIMES paper $14.95 the midst of that mad, brutal, inhumane world created by the Nazis...
...Single copy, $1.50...
...As Lowrance poor] to endure their misery...
...that genes are long strands of aminoacids ship which long enjoyed both tacit and That boundary, usually called an within chromosomes, and that the genes overt support from the church leadership...
...He has also appealed for financial support for the church's aposTHE BATTLE FOR NICARAGUA tolic efforts from U.S...
...Commonweal is that these are the policies recommended glected to note that Obando, while fear- indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, by the naive religious activists, you re- lessly condemning Sandinista excesses, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book turn to the main theme of the lecture, has never condemned contra atrocities Review Index...
...Points of indignation • Not only the Sandinista church is THE EDITOR political...
...important until Commonweal publishes Auschwitz to the church of France...
...and relative calm...
...To ability to manipulate these sequences we themselves with the interests of the poor...
...Then you figure out how to get the or in the Iowa Writers' Workshop...
...The 1970 Mr...
...ETHICS paper $12.95 Vol...
...Maybe...
...The anti-Sandinista itself at all times...
...On that score, Miami attended by contra leaders as at least to this reader, the editorial waf- supplying "at least a grain of truth that Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of fles...
...some of the underlying views expressed is apractical one - not "What is truth...
...possibly misunderstood hero left holes in need to visit Nicaragua to take issue with Secondly, the final political question the canvas...
...Perhaps you mean to say organization whose leaders lobby for To the Editors: Yes, as' yc ur editorial that, once the "full and disturbing mes- support of U.S...
...In Messiness, Veritas," May 9]'says, siness" of the Nicaraguan reality is He, of course, has every right to act this political engagement requires of Chris- adequately grasped and precisely way, but he should not be befuddled if tians "a willingness to seek...
...Whether he's a conscious liar or analysis, rather than condescendingly with Mr...
...Such mutual understanding, whether called contract or compact, stewardship or covenant, is the Fording uncharted boundary waters essential element upon which science and technology must co-exist with the MODERN SCIENCE sion of the scientific method versus sub- values of the humanities...
...Depending on event did not become a Chernobyl disaswhich side is initially invoked, scientists ter...
...A analysis ignores the fact that the Sanerations that exemplify the boundary be- series of remarkably interrelated investi- dinistas are a revolutionary movement tween technology and technology-run- gations in the sixties had demonstrated which quite recently deposed a dictatorrampant...
...The present conposes "the truth," as if his self- olutionary church that can still exercise frontation, with well calculated strategy, definition as a "Christian humanist from 'its prophetic, critical function vis-a-vis is trying to force these people to choose - _ / CONVERSION AND DISCIPLESHIP ~~ GQ• 1 A Christian Foundation for Ethics and Doctrine STEPHEN HAPPEL and JAMES WALTER ~`a `~/ LAST LETTERS Focusing on conversion and discipleship as "the central moment of `_O Christian life," Happel and Walter produce a fresh understanding OF RESISTANCE of the structures and imperatives of Christian theology...
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