Modern Science and Human Values
Ayers, William R.
size them up like they was a stack of beer fly out without knocking down the whole of Health and accepted the understanding glasses. You listen and you look...
...Yet we know that there is a large tion, at the quick way in which confusion forces...
...monthly in advance for more country I picked up from a daily reading the Sandinistas, one is perforce in favor than three times...
...As has taken sides...
...We want a rev- content of the Gospel...
...The anti-Sandinista itself at all times...
...Many little to upset the status quo that built fine do not know what we desire...
...size them up like they was a stack of beer fly out without knocking down the whole of Health and accepted the understanding glasses...
...In talking to me, he said that For more information: terrible division in the church...
...Obando's refusing to condemn the Conference and the VI Assembly of the never has in Poland, nor has the church in contras defines him, in many eyes, as a World Council of Churches...
...I, too, am not need of reform almost since the begin- convinced "that John Paul II misunIgnoring reality ning...
...wouldn't see any difficulty with this if judged on their own merits...
...pitfall...
...Preaching puzzle: the savage war by the U.S...
...will provoke many important discussions...
...The 1970 Mr...
...The attention may be illustrative case studies, he has written a summer escapist...
...the three priests in the government: a through patterns not our own serves only of lip service and very little practice in world-renowned poet, a university to make us ever more unknown, ever less comparison to the need...
...Since then I have head of the church, Pope John Paul II been reading many different newspaper may - occasionally at least - be right...
...gratitude to Germaine Ribiere, who pressed...
...Sheehan helped to who see the situation in such conflicting by the U.S...
...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...
...The arti- Classified critical letters...
...and relative calm...
...We pray for some process of rec- cardinal has endorsed...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 of the two pro-government newspapers, of the Reagan administration's policy...
...by William given financial support, faculty posiCardinal Obando is heir to a very long Dun lea [Mav 23 ]. we mistakenly at- tions, permission to publish a newspaLatin American tradition that has done tributed these dying words - "We per, and various state decorations...
...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...
...letter on this problem...
...stringent sanctions...
...Sheehan's AURORA CAMACHO DE SCHMIDT Father loves both sons, liberation theolo- article ["The Battle for Nicaragua," gians and the church which has been in May 9] was refreshing...
...Study conducted in the mid-1970s for to expect him to discuss renegotiation of Mr...
...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...
...Maybe...
...Though Semantics aside, Lowrance has his se- points out, no new laws were passed or this respect for the devotion of the quences straight...
...doing) is to overlook the very nature of SR...
...then the utter disgrace to the U.S...
...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...
...Where is judgment...
...680, three in America magazine (Jan...
...of American political interests...
...It is many of the campesinos, who have been fatuous to assume from this that someBaltimore, Md...
...Crosstones, Box Engels, Soviet Military Review, etc...
...Such a snapshot laden or "meta-analytical" consid- over recombinant DNA research...
...He avoids a common between science and the humanities as Oxford, $24.95, 209 pp...
...WILLIAM DROEL onciliation that might bring both groups As for the Nicaraguan people's devoof devoted Catholics together...
...According to Scripture, God is present patriots" pledged their loyalty and coopTo the Editors: If the article about the wherever people gather to worship him eration to their new Communist governchurch in Nicaragua was intended to in- ment, which welcomed them as part of a fluence people to rally behind the con- plan to make the church loyal and subtras and/or the church at Rome, this Correction: In "A Genius for servient to the state...
...God uses Marxism for his own traitor, however blindly wellinterviews and conclusions are set in a purposes, as he did the Assyrians and the intentioned...
...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...
...But our Three Mile Island William R. Ayers methodological error...
...They are Garcia Marquez in 1982, speaking on is the responsibility of Christians to see to gifted visionaries and prophets...
...that if they do not support the tasks of the on revolution they are penalized...
...throughout the country, especially along (as the "popular church" is so fond of JAu`st 15-17, 1986 the Atlantic coast...
...Sheehan implies that Sandinista the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
...Personal/Convalescent use...
...It seems to me that Nicaragua" by Edward R. F. Sheehan into an unjust intervention for the support much rethinking needs to be done among [May 9...
...much needed in theology today...
...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...
...other materials were also available...
...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...
...Then you figure out how to get the or in the Iowa Writers' Workshop...
...revolucidn no hay contradiccidn...
...tion to the traditional faith, I stated it as a Just what I saw The other tragedy is the fact that so fact I observed all over Nicaragua...
...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...
...Classified payable the exceptions...
...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...
...cloth $19.95 11 July 1986: 413 between church and Sandinismo, a suici- Both the church and the United States, with love and sincerity...
...Send books other than those mentioned above...
...I finished it with a sense of pride mon foundations...
...Battle for Nicaragua" addresses de- love, in the church in Nicaragua and WILLIAM CLEARY serves great care...
...Sheehan is not a competent derstands Latin America...
...Great ammunition for Reapopular church from the U.S...
...pressure Washington, D.C...
...What does that...
...The consequences of elsewhere, need reconciliation...
...640, six times...
...Using liographic references is hardly for the values surfaces...
...Very few reported the real- The editors have asked me to be brief, ity of what I had seen, heard, or observed so let me focus on common themes in the in my day-to-day experiences...
...You listen and you look real stack...
...paper $9.95 reality as the spirituality of an epoch, a nation, a congregation, nature, or the psyche...
...ROSALIA VADALA, OSF the Sandinistas' repressive Marxist policies...
...liberal American Catholics about the I returned in March from fourteen JOSEPH P. FITZPATRICK, S.J...
...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...
...Babylonians, because after two thousand editorial to call "trivial" the witness of "The interpretation of our reality years the Good News has been given a lot...
...1949 a delegation of Polish "priestSacramento, Calif...
...pose...
...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...
...Science and Human Values by William we adapt or fail to adapt to the present...
...To ability to manipulate these sequences we themselves with the interests of the poor...
...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...
...Specifically, while in the frequent assumption that if one criticizes with order...
...It W. Lowrance...
...strike (and your injudicious publication country...
...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...
...There behalf of many of us Latin Americans...
...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...
...These priests were reader is not impressed...
...science-watchers, I recommend Modern numbers...
...the speaks about devotion to the poor and Sheehan says "bear a legitimate grievpublic expressions of solidarity with the social justice but [urges priests] to avoid ance...
...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...
...or USSR - a position the enlarge the picture...
...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...
...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...
...The To the Editors: Edward R.F...
...Yet even as late as protest the oppression of the poor...
...Sandinista regime, the church's role in months of pastoral work with the poor in Professor Emeritus of Sociology confronting it, and the possibility that, as Matagalpa, Nicaragua...
...He calls technical prog- strict regulations imposed...
...We are told the ways in which To understand the debate, read the book...
...I of U.S...
...PATRICIA M. LEIPER popular position that made this revolu- share of the credit, or blame, for the way tion so unique: "Entre cristianismo y things are...
...Then, miserly Louis, hero of Viper's Knot...
...Join us in our 10 year experiTo the Editors: Edward Sheehan is cor- him it must be remembered that he ment to worship, support and stimulate rect ["The Battle for Nicaragua," May strongly resisted the Somoza dictator- inward/outward journeys cutting across all boundaries...
...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...
...Students say is not meant to comfort the Reagan ad- AL FRITSCH, S.J...
...to of them later changed their posture tochurches but, in most cases, did little to Mauriac himself rather than to the ward the government...
...THE COMPANY AT I also made clear my misgivings about KIRKRIDGE Two tragedies Celebrating our 10th year the sometimes devious methods of CarAre you looking for a way to be yourself & Bronx, N.Y...
...Any objective visitor to Nicaragua can Battery Checker However- it it is rare to find literature or witness how much harm the Sandinistas' This item checks all batteries...
...18, 1986) are the current debate on Nicaragua is the times...
...Did Jesus tell the measured today in the suffering of the story of the Prodigal Son just for an audi- Worth, Ill...
...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...
...In a rev- Nicaragua is "a ping-pong ball between Anthony Ciccariello olution in which the church was so posi- the superpowers," a statement that 520 W. Gray St...
...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...
...terms...
...Nor does the intransigence To the Editors: I am astonished at your the official statement on religion by the of Cardinal Obando serve any good pur- lack of judgment in printing the Sheehan National Directory of the FSLN (1980...
...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...
...caught up with the contras, think they how devotion to the traditional faith conTo the Editors: It is with great interest are fighting for the freedom of the church tradicts the church's stated concern for that I read the article, "The Battle for when in actuality, they're being conned the misery of the poor...
...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...
...Episcopal politics in carrying out this devotion...
...I saw for myself that all the tinue arming the contras and his military Biblical Meditation Songs...
...Finally, it is crude of your vacuum of historical understanding...
...for , their part, philosophers con- port played a preventive role...
...The world was vice-president, a founder of a worldfree, ever more solitary," said Gabriel made for everyone to have enough, and it changing publishing house...
...However, in fairness to still be Church...
...Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...crystallographers an interface is a nearly now call genetic engineering...
...Moreover, to blame Dayspring Retreat Center say there are many underground prisons all of Nicaragua's woes on U.S...
...ence in first-century Palestine...
...He gan...
...The Medellin and Puebla and identified tic thickets one will get into here...
...the proliferation of counter- Of course, there are differences be- of Sheehan will soften resistance to revolutionary religious sects in tween Poland and Nicaragua...
...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...
...the relationships between science and harassment of the Catholic hierarchy is a Termed by Lowrance an "archetypal human values as time advances...
...ETHICS paper $12.95 Vol...
...Most other commentators on the stewardship, or prefer as I do, the notion intersection of science and values make a of a covenant...
...Modern/ bookstores in Matagalpa are filled with policies in Central America generally...
...the fact that that the Scriptures advocate and that facts" and miss the messiest fact in the some bishops did not sign the document...
...As Lowrance poor] to endure their misery...
...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...
...Depending on event did not become a Chernobyl disaswhich side is initially invoked, scientists ter...
...Therefore, To the Editors: I deplore Commonweal's tion...
...was a time when we could say that about The importance of the subject that "The The divisions, the lack of fraternal the editors of Commonweal...
...dttl choice and one that denies the early through their histories, can take a good MRS...
...policy, the Sandinistas must be 884002, Walled Lake, MI 48088...
...important historical facts and documents: Sandinistas...
...God is not putting his blessing on any • Nothing is said in the article about side that resorts to violence, contras or Shelburne, Vt...
...books and magazines on Marx, Lenin, As I also tried to make clear, irrespective Hour cassette: $6.50...
...Catholic schools that the new education To say this, to tell the truth as one sees it, is completely materialistic...
...First, could this be to take sides...
...the backwash of tragedy an opportunity struct a science that does not re...
...Passion & Purity...
...it by carrying the message in their lives...
...In September judge of the location of God's presence...
...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...
...How can he speak of "messy military conscription (1983...
...Nicaragua in the first years of the revolu- defy logic, and common sense, is to have for hiring into violent prostitution the tion, most of them of Protestant and John Paul II ignore reality: he often pathetic adolescent contras (whom -foreign origin, and their campaigns...
...Does he put his energies into using article ["The Battle for Nicaragua," the Episcopal Conference's statement on his influence to promote the social justice May 9...
...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...
...SHEEHAN that country...
...the response to the Conference's state- the Gospel is more than words from the against Nicaragua, with troops poised to ment from Christian groups all over the pulpit...
...segment of the population which is spreads...
...Sheehan's the past...
...Nicaraguan people...
...dinal Obando...
...Regarding ministration...
...Sometimes in man...
...and magazine articles on the situation in The author replies: EDWARD R.F...
...Sheehan seems to want to turn this impenetrable boundary...
...The real tragedy of Nicaragua is the ship...
...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...
...How the confusion and ignorance about Cen- dare we say the Our Father otherwise, Refreshing to read tral America in the United States are from the top down...
...In return, sci- Nicaraguan poor is, on its own, laudable, ress a "directed tragedy...
...In their daily unCommonweal: 414 wavering dedication to the people most situation has deteriorated into a bitter guan Episcopal Conference - that the Latin American priests show more cour- [struggle] between devoted Catholics bishops oppose any outside interference age than I ever will...
...Farewells from the Bonhoeffer Family Edited by EBERHARD and "It is daring in its scope...
...important until Commonweal publishes Auschwitz to the church of France...
...cruel and incompetent regime has done to $10.95 to Daniel Strickland, 1214 N. AshI was told by those who teach in the the country and the Nicaraguan people...
...ally exist...
...by the media in support of a certain posi- the government of Nicaragua...
...land, Chicago, IL 60622...
...Points of indignation • Not only the Sandinista church is THE EDITOR political...
...papal encyclicals have urged...
...A book with thirty-three pages of bibto sharpen our appreciation of human Lowrance makes neither mistake...
...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...
...Original...
...His approach respects the autonomy of both ethics and theology and is able to engage other disciplines in open dialogue...
...I believe that both sides are Safeguarding the Creation wrong, and that it would be dishonest to at political prisoners, native Nicaraguans pretend otherwise...
...El Nuevo Diario and La Barricada a As I stated clearly early in my article, I continual undermining of the Catholic Cassettes strongly oppose Reagan's plea to conchurch...
...not only Father Molina is used Philadelphia, Pa...
...1961, Stephan Cardinal Wyszynski, we wonder why the situation in THE ED] I-ORS John Paul II's mentor, issued a pastoral Nicaragua was ripe for Marxist inroads...
...cle by Edward Sheehan (and information One of the most dismaying elements of RATES: 75¢-a word, one time...
...Elmira, NY 14905 tively involved, it is a tragedy that the echoes the declarations of the NicaraII July 1986: 415...
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