Quantum Reality
Toolan, David
In brief QUANTUM REALITY: BEYOND THE NEW PHYSICS, by Nick Herbert. Anchor/ Doubleday, $16.95, 268 pp. For those who enjoyed (or missed) Fritjof Capra's The Tad of Physics (1975 ) or Gary...
...Mary highlights the Lord's preferential option for the poor...
...John's Lord, that 'same Lord who made the world and saw it to be good...
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...We are lords subject to and answerable to the Lord himself, who looked at the world he had made and called it good...
...While almost all the apostles abandoned Jesus, Mary, his mother, Mary Magdalene, and the other women shared the agony of the crucifixion...
...I am sick unto death of hearing that Christianity is to blame for all our ills from housemaid's knee to acid rain...
...37 Name,,, Address 7ap cam~ FREE FO~TA(JE W~.DWIDE / OFFER EXP[R~ 4-30.86 temological and, implicitly, ontological: what does the new physics tell us about reality...
...Later Jesus tells us how we can become close to him like his mother because she does the will of God...
...It says the faithful "turn their eyes to Mary who shines forth in the whole community of the elect as the model of virtues...
...But Mary knows there are times to celebrate, to keep the party going as at the wedding feast at Cana...
...In short, the author's interest is epis1 FREE...
...From the beginning, Mary knew there would be a sign of contradiction in following her child...
...Henceforth all generations will call me blessed...
...Son, behold thy mother...
...She says, "Let it be done to me according to your word...
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...Furthermore, we hold our estate, not in fee simple, but in trust for our children and our children's children...
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...To the Editors: James McCue' s review of The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Promise of Christian Theology by A. Paul Santmire [October 4] recalled one item in the quite large file of letters that I never got around to writing to the New York Times which editorialized upon the subject some years ago...
...But, again, she reminds us of the reason for her greatness: "He has regarde d the low estate of his handmaiden . . . . He who is mighty has done great things for me...
...John is serving St...
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...He focuses in on the eight (yes, eight) major interpretations of what kind of "reality" -- if any -- stands behind all the fuss...
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...He knows, then, that he is to contemn not the earth but the pursuit of earthly goods as ends in Commonweal: 26...
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...A physicist himself, Herbert gives a lively, comprehensible account of the theoretical and experimental developments which lead to the quantum "facts," including the very disconcerting Bell's Theorem (which supposes signals faster than the speed of light...
...She is sensitive to others' needs...
...It is true that the opening of Genesis makes human beings lords of creation, but our lordship is limited by the context and the terms in which it is given...
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...Vatican II, in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), concludes with a section on Mary and her role in the church...
...The St...
...He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty...
...A sword will pierce through your own soul...
...Mary arose and "went with haste" to visit her cousin Elizabetfi...
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...She told Jesus, "They have no wine...
...She has faith...
...Jesus "is set for the fall and rise of many.., a sign that is spoken against...
...But for the sake of mathematical idiots like myself, I wish he would...
...For this spocial ~fer...
...Francises among us see the limits of their lordship in the goodness of all God's creatures...
...Either stance is ecologically sound...
...Only marginally does Herbert get into the complexities of "grand unification" theory...
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...For those who enjoyed (or missed) Fritjof Capra's The Tad of Physics (1975 ) or Gary Zukav' s The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979), and want a nononsense update on the world of quantum physics without entanglements with Eastern metaphysics, I recommend Herbert's book...
...The subtitle, "Beyond the New Physics," is publisher's hype...
...I yr...
...Unlike her cousin's husband, the priest Zechariah, serving in the great temple in Jerusalem, Mary believes the angel of the Lord...
...Anyone who does the will God, that person is my brother, and sister, and mother...
...There is no false humility in Mary...
...I _1 Correspondence I I (Continued from page 2) woman also knows her place in the universe, even if it doesn't fit with contemporary feminist rhetoric: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord...
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...As for those of ascetic bent, anyone following St...
...it has been a search for such conmlon gnmd as might be discovered ~ Evansdicals and Roman ~ as U~-y each try to be more faithful in their ~xdiet~ to mission...
...The author's own critically realist bias is forthright, but the other verdicts are given fair and accurate hearing...
...Even more importantly, she anticipates the "Thy will be done" of the "Our Father" -- our most fundamental prayer and response to God the Father...
...The rest of us pay more attention to the needs of our children...
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...Jesus tells us the second greatest commandment is to love our neighbor...
...But Jesus had a special concern for his mother...
Vol. 113 • January 1986 • No. 1
