The Devil and Dr. Church
Janeway, Eliot
(about residents of Amarillo, Texas, read along with Hope in Hard Times in parative literature at its best, doing dou- where nuclear bombs are assembled; order to hear the full range...
...bines them with authority worn casually, by hard-core atheists as simply soft- Dante puts diviners, astrologers, and as literature unveiling philosophy, as headed...
...It arms- ds for dealsubstance do not usually make for read- Unitarians have been viewed askance ing with economists as the necessary ing on the run...
...Forrester Church com- by hardcore believers as soft on God, and evils they are in getting down to earth...
...Continued from page 674) burst and the froth subsides, the pathEven without the atomic bomb, ways are plain enough: Let those who Belial could have achieved all His wish to follow St...
...Charisma and erudition explaining his fall...
...After He knows first hand, as he is demonstrat- heaven-sent chance to get him purged...
...responsibility sanitized against the sanctimoniousness of Satan...
...late, great chairman of the Senate Church's pen arms urbanity with Foreign Relations Committee, his dynamite, and facility with urgency...
...order to hear the full range of popular ble duty as a call to political and ethical Commonweal, September26) need to be responses to living in the nuclear age...
...We are the Manhattan's Gold Coast...
...He is deft in minister was a German, Charles Follen, Church offers a tale with a twist for Sariding them all and more in his race to in fact, a professor of German literature...
...dialect and his dialectic gave the Devil a ped too, its rear legs are clipped...
...gions or self-started congregations or in...
...From the archives of All Souls magicians on display with their heads analysis threaded by anecdote, and as itself, Church fishes up a confrontation turned backwards...
...Correspondence mother's family Democratic dynasts in "The Devil is way ahead of schedule," Idaho...
...hurly-burly of politics...
...The theme of his book is that if F. Forrester Church crusade for nuclear peace...
...experience...
...When the flea jumps, and front for writing this account of our an- venience...
...They were the advocacy preached with the force of that shows they can be self-defeatingly forefathers of our modern breed of humility but voiced with satire born of hard-headed too...
...we don't deal with it, it will dispose of Harper & Row, $12.95, 88 pp...
...His sociological markings enliven he warns, quoting Aldous Huxley's his theology, broaden the reach of his novel about 2105, written in 1948...
...tan's tail...
...So The Devil and Dr...
...As she has...
...Church is com- PATRICK GRATTON Commonweal: 696...
...An orgy of criminal imbeELIOT JANEWAY is the author of the Jane- cility...
...A tunnel-visioned researcher keep up with the Devil, the alter-ego of He was also an abrasively militant first trains a flea to jump on command...
...The Devil and Dr...
...His citations range from as he calls the Devil, infiltrated the Con- To emphasize the need for realistic Scripture to Upton Sinclair, from Dante gregation in the fight over slavery...
...sue the elusive trail to God tracks the Church gives a tender but pointed Eliot Janeway tricky appearance of the Devil...
...Let those PEGGY ROSENTHAL, author of Words and perhaps, but just as surely, men who think they know better about faith Values (Oxford University), is a member of would have destroyed themselves and morals seek whatever comfort they the Genesee/Finger Lakes Nuclear Disar- by destroying the world they live may find in other denominations or relimament Network...
...Charisma and luted him as a gentleman...
...The roadmap Church relies on to pur- us...
...eighth circle of Hell...
...The church will survive the deparway Letter...
...God's shadow side," forecasters...
...the researcher orders it to jump again, ing in his ecumenical and compassionate Satan contrived to persuade the respecta- and the flea fails to respond, the experimission at All Souls Unitarian Church on bles in the congregation that they could menter pronounces it deaf...
...none...
...Prosperity...
...Its response to the peril in which we live, to Dostoyevsky to Huxley...
...His German accent muffled his for ears to hear while we can still jump...
...Church moral for the young reared in illiterate reminds us that the Devil among us is captivity to televised violence...
...He almost always talgic about childhood longings for freeJ full of wisdom, sharpened with wit appears in drag...
...He blends his not understand the message of their flea...
...CHURCH ethical message, and enlist him in the menace...
...A little more slowly, main in the Catholic church...
...and Shakespeare sa- Dante's sketch of the goings Do in the do not usually go together...
...about residents of Amarillo, Texas, read along with Hope in Hard Times in parative literature at its best, doing douwhere nuclear bombs are assembled...
...abolitionist, hellbent on bringing moral then clips its front legs and repeats the Church reveals his qualifications up issues into collision with political con- command...
...He refers us to people in need...
...His latest book is Prescriptions for ture...
...Church is a prod evangelism with his heritage from the minister...
...Satan aspired to be an dom, but grim in assessing ignorance of and learning, leavened with love of author, thereby unmasking his pride and how to use freedom...
...God and each of us...
...Peter's successors reREVIEWERS purposes...
...And they call it progress...
...He is nosUST eighty-eight pages - and chock cloaked in virtue...
...His father was the clarion call...
...The coincidence of Follen's jumps again after its middle legs are clipcient and guileful traveling companion...
...The sanity of Church's call to transform our hell on Destroying earthly hells earth into a heaven within our reach clears our minds to cope with the nuclear THE DEVIL AND DR...
Vol. 113 • December 1986 • No. 22
