Theology for a Nuclear Age
Chittister, Joan D.
I Evidence for fame I COLLECTED STORIES Tennessee Williams New Directions, $19.95, 574 pp. Robert Phillips D ID any major American artist suffer the abuse and neglect accorded...
...The value of the book is to make us rethink it all...
...The day after the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima everything changed...
...some of the early ones are quite awful, and so is their prose ("Hushed were the streets of many peopled Thebes...
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...These often are quite different from the plays...
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...We have, in fact, taken to ourselves the "power of life and death...
...The Mysteries of the Joy Rio" is an authentic ghost story...
...Political science was different...
...Williams began to hit his stride with "The Field of Blue Children" (1935), about seventy pages into the book...
...Noel Keller, RSM, Institute on Sacred Scripture, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
...How is it that we let this death-dealing situation get this far...
...Science was different...
...For love I make characters," Williams once wrote, and his characters do exceed the boundaries of the boards or the page...
...But we all went on as if they weren't...
...And talk about it...
...ROBERT PHILLIP's Personal Accounts: New & Selected Poems, will be published by Ontario Review Press in March, JOAN D. CHITTISTER, O.S.B., has written and lectured on the peace pastoral and chaired a national taskforce on peacemaking in 1984, from apathy to apathy, from blind trust to blind rage, from benign militarism to malignant militarism...
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...All of which are demonstrated in a history of Christian persecutions, the Crusades, the Inquisition, imperialism, and slavery...
...Kill a Commie for Christ" and "Armageddon Politics" fuel the political rhetoric of this country and engorge the "defense" budget beyond all sane argument...
...Yet the plays streamed forth: Over a dozen more full-length plays were unsuccessfully mounted...
...Even his own producers turned on him...
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...In "Three Players of a Summer Game," for instance, Gooper and his family, Big Mama and Big Daddy, are nowhere to be seen, and Maggie is relegated to a bit part...
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...Among the concepts to be reconstructed in this day, Kaufman contends, are our various images of God and the criteria for choosing between them...
...Another late story, "Miss Coynte of Green," is racist and sexist...
...Merrick and asked if he'd dosed the play for good...
...The fact is that the present situation, the power of humans to destroy the human race and with it humt~nkind's entire past, present, and future, was unimaginable in the past...
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...It is as true, also, in cases with good outcomes, hut here there is no incentive to ferret out ostensible lapses...
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...It is thus a chancy business, this encounter which most of us, at one time or another in our lives, must make with the health care system...
...Practically nothing changed in the way that one government dealt with another...
...This is a book I will keep and revisit...
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...Other stories prefigure plays: "The Night of the Iguana," "Three Players of a Summer Game," "Man Bring This Up Road," and "The Kingdom of Earth" are early versions and variations on Iguana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Smelling our smell THEOLNY' FOR A NUCLEAR AGE Gordon D. Kaufman Westminster Press, $12.95, $8.95 paper, 7$pp...
...The Collected Stories reveal that Williams had several very different fictional modes -- the nostalgic, the naturalistic, the comic, and the fantastic...
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...The anonymous editor also found a previously uncollected intimate memoir, "The Man in the Overstuffed Chair," which is placed as a prologue...
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...The Williams portrait by Andy Warhol which adorns the jacket strikes just the right note...
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...The facts are that we deal with an inexact science, wielded by practitioners who, even when good and conscientious, are not -- cannot be -- uniformly virtuosic...
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...Even Miss Coynte's surname is, I take it, intended as a crude pun...
...What it makes apparent is that had he written nothing else, Williams's stories would be sufficient evidence of his bid for fame...
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...His last play to be well-received in this country was The Night of the Iguana -- produced in 1961...
...some of the very last stories read like' masturbatory daydreams ("Dear God, thought Stephen, you must have said Let there be Clove before you said Let there be light, because what this Arkansas Ozark kid is now unveiling equals or takes precedence over other works and wonders that You performed in Your six days of creation...
...To religion falls the responsibility of star wm...
...A worldview based on a concept of a God who uses people to fight the great struggle between good and evil legitimates national policies which poison the earth and threaten its peoples...
...I recommend the book highly...
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...Gordon D. Kaufman, Mallinckxodt Professor at Harvard Divinity School, in his book, Theology for a Nuclear Age, gives a studied, profound, and disturbing explanation...
...We in God's or God in ours...
...No, I'm not simply recommending, I'm begging every minister, every priest, every theologian, every preacher and teacher of religion, every patient, bewildered, faithful person in the pew to read it...
...Kaufman's analysis of the effect of present religious interpretations and symbols is simple but profound...
...He points out that peoples of earlier ages saw the end of life as the fullness of time or an avenging salvation of a faithful remnant...
...MARGARET WIMSATT teaches in the English Department at the University of New Mexico...
...In his lifetime four story collections were published...
...And nothing changed...
...The end result of the work is to wonder who has been most made in whose image...
...The future was different...
...ited negligence was the cause of the bad outcome...
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...I do not wish for a moment to suggest that the profession is above blame or criticism...
...International relations were different...
...10016 Please send the next 6 months of Commonweal to: Name Address City, State, Zip [] I prefer a full year's subscription at $28, 3/14/86 14 March 1986:157shaping the ways in which we view the doom to which we have consigned ourselves: as God's will to purify the world or as our ultimate sin against creation...
...What Clove is unveiling is his "sexual parts...
...Yet each is underpinned by the same piercing psychology, compassion, and black humor that marked his best theatrical works...
...The exclamation point is Williams's...
...This father God, this king of kings and lord of hosts, is a God of War...
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...It's a small book, seventy-eight pages...
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...But they were not noticed like the best and worst of his plays...
...But between the early and late stories there is an abundance of wonderful, moving, and original fiction...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 130) cian (in most cases more finitude than flaw), results in outcomes that are sometimes unavoidably unfortunate...
...Jesus on the cross, Kaufman notes, is in tension with the medieval image of Jesus on the throne...
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...And think about it...
...Reconstruction and deconstruction, he insists, is the real task of contemporary theology...
...The anonymous editor (who did do all the work of gathering and dating and annotating this book...
...JAMAKE HIGHWATER i$ assistant professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University...
...The religious images of a primitive people in distress are inadequate -- in fact, counterproductive -- to the needs of our own time, he contends...
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...What most don't realize is that, in addition to his plays, he wrote stories, and had done so since the late 1930s...
...No one is credited) has reprinted all the stories from the earlier four collections, plus uncollected and unpublished stories, including Williams's first published effort (in Weird Tales, at age seventeen...
...Now, finally, we have his Collected Stories -- a hefty volume of fifty pieces and nearly 600 pages...
...But Brick and his many problems are explored in a manner which just possibly surpasses the play...
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...No, I closed it for bad," was the reply...
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...Seiden is right again when she notes that the system is more like a lottery than a reliable source of patient protection...
...The science and technology of death spread like a fungus across the country, and the small towns and fine minds and hardworking laborers who were touched by it never recognized the disease...
...Robert Phillips D ID any major American artist suffer the abuse and neglect accorded Tennessee Williams...
...It doesn't take a lot of time to read...
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...I Nationalism was different...
...There is as much malfeasance and negligence in medicine as in other fields, but most of it is never found out, certainly not by the malpractice process...
...Portrait of a Girl in Glass" deals with the themes and characters of The Glass Menagerie, and is as successful a story as the play was a play...
...To blame the act of impending planetary destruction on God is the depth of religious dishonesty which, if continued, makes a transformation of our human institutions and policies at least difficult if not impossible...
...The Challeng~ :of P groundwork for condemning SDL Whet full throat...
...In most bad outcomes it is possible, on hindsight, to find something that might have been done differently, and to find someone who would be willing to say that doing so would have made a difference...
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...God must be rethought, Kaufman concludes, in ecological terms, as an ultimate point of reference, as the substratum of life, not as ruling parent or warring Lord...
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...Kaufman also deals directly with the religious assumptions of the past which he suggests are obscuring, even temporizing, the moral imperatives of the present...
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...We must realize that for the first time in human history the end of the world must be recognized as a human act from which there can be no redemption of the just...
...Very litde changed in school curriculums...
...To do less is to swing from pole to pole, from "God our Father will not let such a thing happen to us" to "GOd, the just judge, wills the destruction of this evil world," DENNIS P. McCANN is co-author, with Charles R. Strain, of Polity and Praxis: A Program for American Practical Theology...
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...When David Merrick closed down The Red Devil Battery Sign in its Boston try-out, a reporter called Mr...
...Kanfman challenges the notion that the theological task is to hand on and hand down, basically unedited, the tradition as it has been interpreted in the past...
...I recommend the discomfort...
...It should be said that Williams has not been entirely served by the inclusion of every story...
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...It is a portrait of the artist as a young poet, and deals with matters of art and love...
...when he showed no readiness to be there :will the present Geneva parley tm~ss e~ really negot/abl0, including SDI...
...It is as if, having created living characters, Williams could let them go on acting independently of any confines of plot...
...New Directions should be complimented for conceiving the book, for soliciting the personal introduction from Gore Vidal, and for producing such a handsome package...
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...Joan D. Chittistes" I T'S hackneyed now, perhaps, but it gets truer every passing moment...
...It belongs on the shelf with Eudora Welty's and Flannery O'Connor's collected stories...
...Through all this, Tennessee Williams rose every morning and continued to write...
...Theopposition and'the ~urd that once before public opinion fmc~d...
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...Kaufman's point is that religion has to be different after Hiroshima, too, if we are to be true to our charge of dominion, if the principles of religion are to save the peoples and products of this planet, if creation is to be allowed to go on creating...
...And when will we...
...It is one of several attempts by Williams to portray the pathethic figure of his sister Rose...
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...Russia becomes "the focus of all evil" in presidential speech and people raise their children to slaughter and be slaughtered "for God and country...
...The notions of "Lord," and "King," of "avenging Judge," are precisely what makes it possible for us to live with and defend and design and die in nuclear sin...
...It goes a long way toward explaining the roots of Tennessee Williams's particular strange genius...
...Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ...
...Mary's College, Morega, CA 94575, June 16-20...
...How is it that with all the fine ideals that we regularly repeat in our inauguration rituals we continually sink deeper and deeper to the level where torture racks and guillotines and mass slaughters look humane in comparison to the horrors that we now package and plan for the human race...
...Distinguished Faculty...
...Even in the egregious cases that are the often cited -- the apparently flagrant abuses -- it is very difficult to be certain that the...
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...The churches must speak up, specific~ bishops...
...And how is it that we seem unable, like lemmings on their way to the sea, to reverse the mad course we have set for ourselves...
...It may take forever to forget...
...After that, until his death in 1983, he could do nothing right in the critics' eyes...
...Benedict T. Vivtano, OP...
...Our very images of God, Kaufman argues, obstruct our ability to confront, and change, a nuclear world...
...How is it that we can now embark on the arming of outer space with no sense of its effect on the human soul, on human ~,isiGn, on human development...
...For brochure contact: Thomas O'Neill, Institute of Gerontology, College Misedcordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
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