Religious book week critics" choices
Collins, Adele Yarbo & Woods, Richard & Raitt, Jill & Kaufman, Christopher J. & III., Holmes Rolston & McDargh, John & schogrod, Edith W) & Malone, Nancy M. & White, James F. & Cunneen, Sally & Moran, Gabriel
RELIGIOUS BOOK WEEK CRITICS' CHOICES Adele Yarbo Collins ADI.l I YARBO COLLINS is /trojcssor o\ V<-u Testament in the theology department el the (University of SiHre Dame Her must recent book...
...it is not another "youth ministry" book...
...If one prefers religious experience to ethics as providing a warranty for transcendence, there is Wayne Proudfoot's clearly reasoned cautionary account of this concept, Religious Experience (University of California,'$25.00, 263 pp...
...Its unifying pattern is the common awareness among progressive intellectuals, religious leaders, representatives of the diverse ethnic groups, and the people in the synagogue, church, and cathedral that they were experiencing a new era...
...locates not only Augustine but everyone else in the first five Christian centuries in a brilliantly detailed, sweeping, historical tapestry...
...It is rather a well-researched, thoughtful, challenging analysis of and prescription for the "role of higher education in the pilgrimage toward a critical and mature adult faith...
...The author is surmised to be a monk since the blending of philosophical, theological, and hermctical insights is accomplished within scripturally and liturgically oriented meditations...
...Two form a contrasting pair: one thick and loaded with formidable mathematics about a "user friendly" universe...
...The optimis13 March IW7: 151 tic anthropology is more compatible with the American experience and strikes one as expressed in our own times in the pastoral leadership of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen...
...Vocation certain...
...Long a classic study, Cyrille Vogel's Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction to the Sources, has been translated and revised by William G. Storey and Niels K. Rasmussen, O.P...
...exerting powerful influence on the young adult through its faculty, its curriculum, and its "hidden curriculum," i.e., the images embedded in every institution as a whole...
...Or call (717) 675-3862...
...This learned courageous book provides insight into our own tradition as well as the current conflicts among Christians, and at the same time it helps us recapture the vision of a more authentic human morality that is still attainable...
...and is currently doing research on a biography of William Howard Bishop, the priest-founder of the Glenmary Home Missions...
...Since "the quality of faith utterly depends on the adequacy of the images it employs and how these images are held," she examines higher education as a community of imagination (Isn't that nice...
...Box 19872, Cincinnati, OH 45219-0872...
...Recent answers can leave us schizophrenic...
...Her latest book is Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger and Man-Made Mass Death (Yale, 1985...
...Pro-Life Art Exhibit National exhibit planned to start in Washington, DC January 21, 1988...
...However, Dolan's general scheme represents a viable and fresh synthesis of the behaviors and the ethos of Catholics in the U.S., with particular attention to the ethnic tapestry of American Catholic life...
...Appelfeld's work can be read as a deeply Jewish latter-day Gospel...
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...Proudfoot argues that the idea of religious experience, a product of postEnlightenment thought, arises in order to free religious belief and practice from dependence on the conceptual structure of metaphysics...
...Did God leave to chance the sex of Jesus, or the manner of his death, or even whether he would be Savior...
...152: Commonweal Change the critical levels half a percent and there is no life...
...Lapide's Jewish rendering of Matthew's Gospel opens up the text with all kinds of insights that reveal the power and realism of Jesus' words...
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...Then, equally important, he essays a theology of the liturgy of the hours...
...His madness can only be appeased by a purificatory blood sacrifice...
...is an excellent collection of essays by himself and others on the treatment of nonhuman animals in the major religions of the world...
...Rather, he shows how the People of God have responded (o historical events as acts of God and in doing so, adapted their communal notions and life to new circumstances...
...Human history, institutions, and knowledge form a structural totality, one that is inherently violent...
...is a carefully worked out critical correlation of the work of several generations of developmental theorists (Piaget, Kohlberg, Fowler, Kegan, and Gilligan) with the cognitive model of Bernard Lonergan...
...Intrinsically interesting in its own right, volume 15, Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian...
...The authors attempt here a "full-spectrum" model of human growth which integrates an object-relational psychoanalytic perspective with the stages of contemplative development derived from Eastern, and especially Buddhist meditative practice...
...Teacher and Preacher (edited by Bernard McGinn with Frank Tobin and Elvira Borgstadt, $15.95, $13.95 paper...
...M y list of fascinating books read in 1986 includes Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Amity House...
...224 pp...
...1X2 pp...
...a poetic, prophetic tour-de-forcc of truly mystical proportions...
...The most imaginative contributions are concerned with healing the divisions that can make religion a threat rather than an educational help...
...8.95 paper, 178 pp...
...Indeed, the volume's usefulness has been improved so much that one reviewer commented it should now be retranslated back into French...
...The other is 'The Creek Magical Papyri in Translation...
...44.95,658 pp...
...Taft combines careful study of the origins of the divine office with analysis of its development in both East and West...
...It is the pleasure that chiefly draws me back to them, the happy shock of discovering unprosaic 13 March 1987 149 beauty, elegance, wit, or wisdom...
...Religious Education and the Future, edited by Dermot Lane (Paulist, $9.95, 174 pp...
...420 pp ). I was also pleased to sec, and indeed, adopted as one of the texts for my Medieval Christianity class...
...Egyptian...
...Joseph G. Donders shares his reflections on the Gospel message in the light of insights gained over many years teaching Religious Studies in Nairobi, Kenya...
...The book contains both historical essays, such as "'Roman Spirituality" b\ John Pinsent...
...The third book is Ernan McMullin's, Evolution and Creation (University of Notre Dame, $24.95, $12.95 paper, 307 pp...
...Awordsmilh...
...Hence, the reader is treated to an abundance of illustrations on the interaction between religion and culture...
...8 June — 1 July 1987...
...Shelves of them remind me that long after they were first pressed for meaning, they linger, their encoded leaves still rich with useful information and sometimes pleasure...
...I find myself on the lookout for two sorts of books: ones that offer the student (and the teacher) an entree into the interiority and unfolding of a human life over time, and ones that offer some psychological and theological "tools to think with" about that life and its meanings...
...Peacemeal PEACEMEAL covers all ways to avoid nuclear war...
...While translations of his major works are available in English, their philosophical and linguistic complexity makes access to them difficult...
...The volumes are intended to make recent scholarship on early Christianity in its environment available to the general public, as well as to make original contributions to such scholarship...
...The liturgy of the hours has attracted attention in recent years, partly as the least successful of the post-Vatican II reforms...
...Send resume, availability, salary needs and 3 refs...
...For brochure contact: Institute on Sacred Scripture, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
...By turns earthy, lyrical, and relentlessly honest in their pursuit of self-understanding, these journals are the record of an extraordinary process of spiritual maturation and development...
...The thesis that Christian Europe as a spiritually tenable entity comes to an end with World War II is sustained in two powerful works of fiction, Aharon Appelfeld's To the Land of the Cattails (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, $14.95, 149pp...
...49.50, 5 I 7 pp...
...stressed the infusion of the Spirit in the individual, implied a context of the separation of church and state, and suggested an ecclesiology congenial with the post Vatican II notion of "the People of God...
...Chinnici's book, part of a series entitled Sources of American Spirituality, includes over one hundred pages of documents...
...For brochure contact: Institute of Gerontology, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
...For various reasons, recent memorable reading in the area of spirituality has spanned a few thousand years — I also tend to get behind in things...
...The Rise of Christianity (Fortress, $24.95, 1022 pp...
...To sum up...
...Now there is an excellent introduction to Levinas's thinking, Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo (Duquesne University Press, $9.50, 126 pp...
...In an appendix, Hanson makes a case for the use of a historical approach and reflects on its theological and social significance for communities of faith today...
...In Creation and Human Dynamism: A Spirituality for Life (Twenty- Third Publications, $5.95, 100 pp...
...For something altogether different, which pushes the reader beyond the conventions not only of psychology but of Western thought in general, Ken Wilber, Jack Engler, and Daniel P. Brown, Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Development (Shambhala Press, $14.95, 343 pp...
...Christian faith perspective essential...
...Mackie by March 15, 1987...
...These two types of devotion rest upon opposing anthropological views of the way humanity experiences the movement of the Spirit...
...For me this past year it has been to locate texts which might contribute something to a graduate course on adult religious development I have been working on for this spring...
...However, that state of affairs is not unusual for people who work at the meeting point of religion and education...
...The book is the result of a lecture series at Mater Dei Institute, a fine catechetical center in Dublin...
...First, Albert Ple"s Duty or Pleasure...
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...They lend to accumulate proportionately...
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...his argument, nevertheless, is almost irresistible...
...Finally, for an engaging piece of writing, there is James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games (Free Press, $13.95, 144 pp...
...Now in paperback...
...15601600 I Yale University Press), and she is the editor of Christian Spirituality II: Middle Ages and Reformation, due in May from Crossroad...
...Paul Achtemeier, Ph.D...
...Finally, it is a persistent problem in courses that build upon the insights of neo-psychoanalytic literature but do not teach that literature directly, how to provide a general understanding of what is at issue in these revisions of Freud (especially when the major theorists themselves are notoriously difficult to read and seldom as entertaining as Freud him154: Commonweal self...
...Faculty: Elizabeth Achtemeier, Paul Achtemeier, Joseph Agius, Peter Ellis, Wilfrid Harrington...
...At the other extreme, Stephen Jay Gould, an equally distinguished Harvard paleontologist, surveys evolutionary history to conclude that "we are the accidental result of an unplanned process . . . the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities...
...A work of prodigious scholarship, it is indispensable and gripping reading as a survey of the formative period of Christian spirituality...
...Hxpertly...
...looks at the informing character of baptismal imagery in the Christian tradition in relationship to the models or maps of adult development which psychology puts forward...
...Tom Regan's Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science (Temple University, $24.95,288 pp...
...In a course on the life cycle, it is useful to counter the perception that one must live long enough to attain the wisdom Erikson located at the end of a full life...
...African Institute Notre Dame's eighteenth program for Christians preparing to serve in Africa...
...The first deals with the dominance and embeddedness of male/ masculine imagery for God in Christian Scripture, theology, and spirituality, and the difficulty that this metaphoric hegemony causes women...
...Gabriel Moron GABRIEL MORAN is the director of the Program in Religious Education at New York University...
...Bach Among the Theologians (Fortress Press, $14.95, 158 pp...
...as she unravels the consequences of spiritual espionage in an implicate universe...
...Drawing on impeccable theological and developmental sources, The Critical Years is gracefully written and contains a nice dash of personal anecdote...
...Organizations wishing to participate in the exhibit's tour should write Ms...
...It is filled with catchy examples and clever twists that force the reader to confront ultimate questions...
...Transcendence is inscribed in the interhuman as a responsibility for the other that cannot be refused...
...Volume I. The Tests, edited by HI) Bet/ (University of Chicago Press...
...Experience in administration, management, organizing, grassroots movements and knowledge on hunger and poverty issues required...
...Jewish Spirituality I. from the Bible through the Middle Ages (edited by Arthur Green...
...31.95...
...15.95, 216 pp...
...This series consists of essays written by carefully selected scholars from the tradition about which they write...
...makes few predictions about the future...
...Two competing devotions emerge...
...It is an emphasis we need as well...
...Annie Dillard's influence is thoroughly manifest, but nowhere is Owens derivative or even less than original...
...Here indeed is "God's plenty...
...Director of Organizing: Manage department of approx...
...Also, optional pre-conference seminar (June 18-20) for those new to this ministry...
...Religious education cannot be considered exclusively from within one's national boundaries, a fact that interestingly enough is more evident within Ireland than the U.S...
...It is also a text which has something very strong to say to those of us who call ourselves professors and wonder what that has to do with professing...
...JillRmtt Jill...
...564 pp...
...6.95...
...The collection contains seminal articles by feminist theologians (Carr, Schneiders), psychological theorists (Gilligan, Miller, Kegan), and saints and doctors of the church (Catherine of Siena, Teresa, John of the Cross...
...The educational implications are helpful although the book has little to say about religion...
...Those interested in philosophical theology can turn to the work of perhaps the most important present-day Jewish thinker, French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas...
...Now we have a comprehensive historical study by Robert Taft, S.J., The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West (Liturgical Press, $14.95, 421 pp...
...Salaries based on need...
...Some of the protest against "speciesism" these days is on the kooky side...
...is the most recent of Pinchas Lapide's contributions that might startle a Christian reader...
...Registrations are being accepted now...
...though released in England two years back, is just coming on the scene in the United States, where it is now being distributed by Fortress Press...
...Another fine series is World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest...
...The past year was a spare one for books in religious education...
...Three recent books fall in the eye of this stormydebate...
...The topic requires explorations of attitudes toward the roles of the supernatural, the "paranormal"and magic in illness, healing, and the role of medicine in disease and curing...
...A Biography of Dorothy Day (Paulist $14.95, 224 pp...
...Artists should contact the exhibit coordinator, Annie Mackey, Rt...
...This volume by an anonymous author was published posthumously in a German translation of the French original...
...Respectful and playful disagreement should not be excluded from religious education...
...His most recent book was Faith and Fratemalism: The Misery of the Knights of Columbus, 1882-1982 (Harper A Row...
...Between myth and history, Broch's sprawling work recounts the effect upon an Austrian mountain village, Kuppron, of a charismatic drifter, Marius Ratti, a Hitler-like figure who insinuates an ideology of chastity and anti-technology into the earthy worldview of the villagers...
...Roman, edited by AH Armstrong (Crossroad...
...traces the fragmentation of the western concept of the devil...
...i.f a former president of the American Academy of Religion, and a professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri...
...Its importance lies in bringing together a group of Roman Catholic scholars from Germany, France, the United States, England, and Ireland...
...Thus, after the death of the Jewish innkeeper, Rosemarie, the guests sip coffee and eat honey cake sacramentally, "twelve altogether" and as the Jews await deportation, Arna, Rudi's companion, reassures them, "In a little while you'll meet again.'' From the beginning, the reader knows the terror of the final words: "It is accomplished" (John, 19:20...
...In their journey across villages and fields dotted with taverns and inns, way-stations of an apocalyptic dreamscape, mother and son eat, drink, become ill, recover, encounter itinerant Jews and Ruthenian peasants (all described without folklorish fustian...
...Humankind hungers for transcendence after the hold of Christianity has weakened, but the embrace of Utopian sectarianism is seen to end in disaster...
...they have updated the bibliographical information and added much new material not found in the last (1975) edition by the late Professor Vogel...
...Inevitably one scans the publishers' notices and haunts the bookstores with some agenda in the back of one's mind...
...D.J...
...In 1986 the following appeared: Angelus Silesius (edited by Maria Shrady...
...Lastly...
...They could not be more wrong...
...which examines the traditions which inspired Bach's sacred music...
...edited by Marvin W. Meyer (Harper & Row...
...For those who like to hate Augustine, this little gem could be an eyeopener...
...A New Appraisal of Christian Ethics (Paragon Books, $21.95, $12.95 paper, 238 pp...
...Although it may seem that Rudi can choose another life, he is doomed by love for his mother to the fate that awaits her...
...The sources are provided by Paulist Press's Classics of Western Spirituality...
...Under the heading of works that stand back from the immediate account of lives-in-process to reflect upon them psychologically and theologically, there have been several published in 1986 that 13 March 1987: 153 have original contributions to make...
...Two other books published in 1986 provide actual texts from that world which allow the reader to get an impression of ancient religious life first hand...
...The Whiteheads propose the kind of spirituality requisite if American Catholicism is to have a viable future — smart, lean, and holistic The most memorable surprise of the season was my late discovery of Virginia Stem Owens' s And the Trees Clap Their Hands: Faith, Perception, and the Sew Physics (Wm...
...one part in 10 raised to the 10 ' power...
...120pp...
...Biblical Institute 22nd Biblical Institute, Trinity College, Burlington, VT 05401, June 21-26, 1987...
...Each year brings more questions about matters we thought were safely resolved...
...Meeks addresses the perennial question of the relation of the Bible and ethics He does so with admirable historical imagination in a way which makes the world of early Christians come alive without imposing alien questions and categories upon it...
...Schneiders argues carefully and convincingly for the importance of restoring the feminine to the deity, not only for the sake of women in the church, but because "it is crucial that we cease to trivialize this issue and begin the long process of conversion from idolatry of male ness (italics mine) toward the worship of the true God in spirit and in truth...
...and thematic essays, such as "'Body and Soul in Ancient Religious Kxperience"' by K. Corrigan The two books mentioned above describe moral and religious ideas and experience in the ancient world...
...Indeed, this book might have been better named "A Completed Life," for it witnesses to the possibility of a wholeness and integrity that can be achieved in the midst of great suffering even at any early age...
...Positions Bread for the World, a national Christain citizens' lobby on hunger issues, seeks to fill the following positions...
...An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum ,1941-1943, translated by Arno Pomerans (Pantheon, $12.95, 226, pp...
...John HcDargh JOHN McDARGH teaches courses in the psychology of religious development as associate professor in the department of theology, at Boston College...
...of Isis and Osiris, and Milhraism...
...and the English translation of Herman Broch's "mountain novel" of 1935, The Spell (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $22.50, 391 pp...
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...the other thin, straightforwardly written, about a God of chance...
...Father Nigro Gonzaga University, Spokane 99258...
...I thoroughly enjoyed Jaroslav Pelikan's little book...
...Moral education has become a publishing field of its own, but its relation to religion remains problematic...
...Jay Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (Doubleday, $19.95, 453 pp...
...11.95...
...Because the feminist perspective here is grounded in the human, with respect for differences, this unique resource book should interest men as well as women...
...Walter Conn's Christian Conversion: Developmental Perspectives on Autonomy and Surrender (Paulist, $12.95, 352, pp...
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...For the Western reader inspired by the text who may want to find a way back home, the book contains an unexpected offering, a final chapter by John Chirban on "Developmental Stages in Eastern Orthodox Christianity...
...339 pp ). These documents are magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from GrecoRoman Hgspt They date from the second to the fifth century AT) and give the reader an invaluable look at popular religion of this period...
...Columbia, where her latest creation is the department of religious studies there...
...The relation of human and nonhuman animals is a question of great importance in most religions...
...It will be difficult for settled believers not to be jolted by some of Bartholomew's questions...
...An index of the strength of his anthology is the warning of Michael Ruse, a leading philosopher of biology, to scientists and philosophers who "may think that Evolution and Creation, taking religion seriously, lies beyond the scope of their concern...
...I was particularly struck by Elliott DoiTs insightful essay on "The Jewish Tradition"and Marvin R. O'Connell's excellent treatment of "The Roman Catholic Tradition since 1545...
...213 pp...
...Thomas J. Talley provides the most searching analysis of what we now really do know in The Origins of the Liturgical Year (Pueblo, $17.50, 254 pp...
...Defining faith as "the activity of seeking and composing meaning in the comprehensive dimensions of our experience," Parks uses developmental theorists, especially Fowler, in a mercifully lucid way to ground her understanding of "the motion of faith," the continual activity of composing meaning throughout one's life...
...Russell provides not only information on a fascinating subject, but a point of view and methodology that will stimulate debate...
...Provide staff leadership in grassroots network development, membership growth and retention...
...His approach is historical and he does not attempt to harmonize the diverse visions of community in the Old and New Testaments into an artificial "'biblical view...
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...1986 was a good year for books of spirituality The Crossroad Press published three of its new scries on World Spirituality: Christian Spirituality I. Origins to the Twelfth Century, (edited by Bernard McGinn, John Meyendorff, and Jean Ledercq...
...On the side of scholarship, but not of the angels—except for the fallen angels —is Jeffrey Burton Russell's concluding volume in his four-volume study of the devil (Cornell University Press...
...One, which was popularized by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, supported the traditional notion of Christendom with its hierarchical model of the church dominated by the clergy and compatible with the unity of church and state...
...For all the obvious reasons, I hesitate to single out only one...
...Nancy N. Halone NANCY M. MALONE, O.S.U.,edits the quarterly journal, Religion and Intellectual Life at the College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, New York...
...After we understand statistics, an omnipotent God neither logically nor empirically needs the old-fashioned divine determinism...
...The Sermon on the Mount (Orbis, $9.95, 148 pp...
...Roger Penrose, of the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University, looking at the initial creation, speculates that "the accuracy of the Creator's aim must have been at least of the order of...
...f the books I read in 1986, the one most valuable to me professionally is Sharon Parks's The Critical Years: The Young Adult Search for a Faith to Live By (Harper & Row, $16.95, 245 pp...
...is also very important for understanding the context of the various forms of biblical faith and their continuities and discontinuities with other forms of religious expression...
...Holmes Rolston, III HOLMES ROLSTON, III, is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University and the author o/Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, just released in paper by Random House and in cloth by Temple University Press...
...examines the ideas of the major proponents of the devotion and places them in their cultural and religious contexts of the latter half of the nineteenth century...
...Expected several years back, but delayed, here are pages of erudite evidence that the universe is startlingly put together—from the infinitesimal particles of microphysics to the almost infinite astronomical scales...
...Religious education is an example both of the division between men and women as well as a place of possible reconciliation...
...RELIGIOUS BOOK WEEK CRITICS' CHOICES Adele Yarbo Collins ADI.l I YARBO COLLINS is /trojcssor o\ V<-u Testament in the theology department el the (University of SiHre Dame Her must recent book is Crisis and Catharsis: The Power ot the Apocalypse (Westminster Press...
...James Hennesey, S.J., stressed the significance of church history in the theological enterprise...
...I (end to process books — editing, teaching...
...and Tad Dunne, S.J's Lonergan and Spirituality: Towards a Spiritual Integration (Loyola University, $12.95, 230 pp...
...Richard Woods KI('H-\Kt) *ihids o (• is exetutne editor <>t Spirituality Today, leaches spirituality at l.nsula lni\ersit\'s Institute of Pastoral Studies m Chit ago...
...of Government, University of Notre Dame, Ind...
...This 158: Commonweal will likely be the standard book on the subject for years to come...
...They represent the pulling together in a comprehensive way of much recent research, especially of a historical nature...
...Catholic Historian and general editor of Makers of the American Catholic Community, a six-volume history of the Catholic church in the United States due to be published by Macmillan in 1989, has just completed a history of the Sulpician Fathers in the U.S...
...Both of Sandra Schneiders's books Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women (Paulist Press, $2.95, 81 pp...
...Her grasp of the theological implications of modem physical theory is downright awesome...
...Any effort to uphold the idea of such experience as unmediated feeling subject only to internal explication will have to contend with Proudfoot's arguments...
...Towards the end of the journey, Toni rushes ahead alone to the home of 13 March 1987: 155 Pseudo-archaic religious practice is contrasted with the wisdom of the mysterious Mother Gisson and with the novel's narrative voice, the doctor who understands, even if he cannot resist, the taproot of Marius's demonic vision...
...It will be difficult for hard-nosed scientists not to be jolted by some of Barrow and Tipler's evidence for the fine-tuned universe...
...He is the author of Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory and the Study of Religion (University Press of America, 1983...
...one which for good or evil was challenging the foundations of traditional religious creeds and moral codes...
...The book allows in religion simply by including religious voices in the midst of difficult moral situations...
...Soon to be caught up in the impending cataclysm, Toni, a beautiful Jewish woman, decides to return to her birthplace, Bukovina in (then) Rumania, the land of the cattails, to seek the forgiveness of her parents for her dissolute life in Vienna...
...This very accessible small book usefully lays out the core ideas of such theorists as D.W...
...No book combines better reference materials on the reforms of recent years (as well as those of past history) than The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship, edited by J.G...
...Here is a Jew who criticizes Christians for not understanding and practicing Jesus' teachings...
...Greek, Roman (edited by A.H...
...Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (Cornell University Press, $24.95, 323 pp...
...For better or for worse, the tilt is toward the British Isles (the Plymouth Brethren receive far more space than the Mormons), but a careful attempt has been made to reach out to all branches of Christianity...
...The scries provides excellent background material for an informed reading of sources...
...Talley questions many common assumptions about the Christian cycle of time, probing into the origins of the paschal and nativity cycles and the time associated with the process of conversion...
...The second devotion, heralded by Isaac Hecker...
...Several friends and colleagues have recently published books in the area of spirituality...
...Infused with his characteristically encyclopedic background and composed in a sprightly style, Marty's book deserves a wide readership...
...John D. Barrow, an astronomer with the University of Sussex, and Frank J. Tipler, a physicist at Tulane University, have finally released The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford University, $29.95, 706 pp...
...Graciously written, it probes the most sensitive areas of contemporary church controversy without offense, yet challenges all Christians to re-image their notions and practice of membership in the Body of Christ...
...writing, and occasionallv reviewing them...
...Finally, tracking two of my "heroes"—Dorothy Day and Bernard Lonergan— I enthusiastically recommend Jim Forest's fresh, factual, and non-tendentious Love is the Measure...
...In the past twelve months we have welcomed several books long awaited in the field of liturgical studies...
...Write: Sister Miriam Ward...
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...Lucy Bregman's latest book, Through the Landscape of Faith: Christian Life Maps (Westminster, $9.95, 119 pp...
...As a generalise church historian in agreement with Hennesey's prescription, I have gravitated to those works which elucidate the relationship between religion and culture...
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...The anti-Hunthausen (and antiCharles Curran) ecclesiology has its historical analogue in the anti-Modernist crusade which is neatly summarized by Lester Kurtz, The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism (University of California, $19.95, 255 pp...
...267 pp...
...I cannot recommend it highly enough...
...One valuable resource newly available is Michael St...
...Although in many countries moral education is subsumed under religious education, moral education in the United States has had an anti-religious bias...
...She also recently edited Feminist Perspeclnes on Bib heal Scholarship (Scholars I'ressi In 1986 an important new series, entitled Library of Early Christianity , was inaugurated by Westminster Press under the editorship of Wayne A. Meeks...
...W. H. C. Frend's monumental study...
...In his brilliantly structured presidential address at the annual luncheon-meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association (December 29, 1986...
...and New Wineskins: Reimagining Religious Life Today (Paulist $10.95, 309 pp...
...In so doing, he pushes (tentatively) our knowledge of the Christian organization of time back to an even earlier stage than formerly considered possible...
...with the collaboration of John Brooks-Leonard (Pastoral Press, $24.95, 443 pp...
...Her books include The Eucharistic Theology of Theodore Beza: Development of the Reformed Doctrine and Shapcrs of Tradition in Germany, Switzerland and Poland...
...150: Commonweal Chrutophsr I. Kimhnon CHRISTOPHER I Kaufman, the editor of the U.S...
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...Relating new psychological information on human development throughout the life cycle to spiritual development, it moves toward a last section "Reenvisioning the tradition of Christian Spirituality...
...nonetheless, there is a real issue here that is central to moral and religious rethinking...
...Here, as in the Conn book, there is a serious but non-polemical concern for defining normative development in a way that respects the claims of both our Christian spiritual traditions and the best social science to hand...
...This fine series presents whole texts of major spiritual figures...
...The Appelfeld book is a requiem not only for the Jews of Europe but also for a Christianity still rooted in the ancient synagogue...
...Kurtz refers to the Sapiniere, i.e., the covert Integralist, anti-Modernist network operating out of the curia without authorization from above, as "bureaucratic insurgency," a useful term for understanding recent ecclesiastical and political trends...
...502 pp...
...Do not be misled by the title...
...The Tenth annual Workshop for those working in retirement homes or programs for the aging in our religious communities...
...He particularly noted the need for church history in aiding the theologians' understanding of authentic tradition, the development of doctrine, and the diverse models of ecclesiology...
...That moral and religious growth are an integral part of our overall personal growth is the assumption behind Women's Spirituality: Resources/or Christian Development, edited by religious studies professor Joann Wolski Conn (Paulist, $10.95, 327pp...
...I have a friend who has a motto on his desk: "Nothing is as simple as it seems...
...Coles keeps the voices of young children at the center, but he organizes the work around themes (e.g., the effect of movies, nuclear warfare) that make for easier reading than some of his previous books...
...Greek...
...Owens"s power as a writer may be even more so...
...Armstrong, $49.50,517 pp...
...Aging Religious: Our Responsibility June 21-26, 1987...
...As a case study upon which to test its foundational thesis, that all of these thinkers converge upon an understanding of authentic human development as a process of self- transcending subjectivity, the book examines the life of Thomas Merton...
...Meister Eckhart...
...Distinguished Faculty: Elizabeth Achtemeier, Ph.D...
...She is accompanied by her half-gentile son, Rudi, whose love for his mother is marred by the pull of boorish pleasures and his mother's despairing moods...
...The new edition proves this will continue to be the reference book on Christian worship to which one turns first and most frequently...
...She is founding editor of Cross Currents and the author of several books including Contemporary Meditation on the Everyday God...
...In a series of radio interviews, Levinas explicates the contrast between historical and ethical existence...
...Evolutionary history a random walk...
...James Gaffney provides a very helpful piece on the Catholic church's history...
...The comprehensive and annotated references concluding each chapter are particularly valuable...
...Underlying religious experience and moral life is the believing community...
...Good reader, enjoy...
...Graduate students and their age cohort are also in many ways the object of the reflection contained in Sharon Parks's The Critical Years: The Young Adult Search for a Faith to Live By (Harper & Row, $16.95,245, pp...
...These interviews explore the relation of the Bible to philosophy, of ethical existence to the infinite, of the human face to ethics and language...
...His books include Education Toward Adulthood and Interplay: A Theory of Religion and Education...
...Mail $12/year (or six issues) to: PEACEMEAL, Dept...
...Christianity provided a premature answer by elevating "man" over nature, treating everything nonhuman as mere means...
...James F. White JAMES F. WHITE is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame...
...anddirei Is the Center for Religion and Soi iet\ His most rei ent bonk is l.ckharl's Way (Michael (Hazier...
...Is the universe an accident...
...Davies (Westminster, $29.95, 544 pp...
...The editors have not only provided a most readable English translation...
...Kurtz's work is a sociological analysis of the ways in which church authorities responded to (and frequently caricatured) those scholars who employed historical methodology and new philosophical categories to the development of Scripture, ecclesiology, and doctrine...
...19th Annual Institute on Sacred Scripture August 2-7, 1987...
...Textbooks keep pouring forth from religious publishers, but there are few books that either break new ground or give a comprehensive account of the activity of religious education...
...1, Box 401, Bostic, NC 28018 about submitting entries...
...One might disagree with his premise and therefore not like his conclusion...
...Wayne Meeks's own contribution to the series is especially noteworthy Under the title The Moral World of the First Christians (Westminster Press, $IK95...
...Parks creatively extends and nuances the faith development model of James Fowler to interpret the faith crises peculiar to those persons in what Levinson described as the stage of "novice adulthood...
...modestly admits that his book is "but the first step in the writing of a new social and religious history of American Catholicism...
...B. Herdmans...
...This book contains excerpts from literary works, inscriptions, and ancient hymns, relating to the mystery religions, such as the I'leusinian mysteries, the mysteries of Dionysos...
...RAI'IT...
...It may come as a surprise to some to learn of the complexity of those traditions...
...Their theory of how women's thinking develops is based on interviews with a wide range of women...
...Pie' finds continuity between the Greek philosophers and the counsel of Jesus in this approach, which culminated in the teachings of St...
...Van Bavcl teases out the radical social doctrine in Augustinc"s brief monastic guide, revealing in the vision of his middle years an evangelical cgalitarianism that clashed prophetically with the stiff class system of late antiquity...
...Special Projects Coordinator: Coordinate special organizing projects such as seminars, intern field organizing, campus organizing, church servicing and election work, skills in administration, management, program coordination and communication required...
...The F.arly Kaballah (edited by Joseph Dan and Ronald C. Kiener, $13.95, $10.95 paper...
...Carse is a spectacularly popular teacher of religion at New York University, and the reason why can be glimpsed from this book...
...which gives the students sizable portions of the major works of medieval women mystics and, I hope, whets the students' appetites for the books I have already mentioned...
...The fruit of the French Dominican's long career as moral theologian and psychotherapist as well as distinguished editor of La Vie Spirituelle, his analysis cuts through the centuries and standardized verbiage to pose a traditional and healthier morality based on the human desire for happiness...
...Though it relies upon many secondary sources, Kurtz's book is nevertheless an excellent summary and balanced treatment of a topic which is of vital concern to theologians and church historians...
...This totality can only be pierced by the connection to the other person, a relation of "one for the other...
...In the latter category the graced discovery of this past year for me has been a book originally published in 1983...
...Registrations are being accepted now...
...With degrees from the Institut Catholique and the Gregorian University, and a vowed religious since before Vatican II, Schneiders is well-qualified to offer us theological reflections on con156: Commonweal temporary religious life...
...That has been the case with regards to our knowledge of the beginnings of the Christian calendar...
...are important to me—as a woman and as a woman religious...
...101, P.O...
...Joseph P. Chmnici.O.F.M, Devotion to the Holy Spirit in American Catholicism (Paulist, $12.95...
...The book deals with pastoral care inbedded in such diverse traditions as the Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Baptist, Methodist, eight other Protestant denominations, and the Afro-American Tradition...
...asks us to re-envision a long but unhealthy tradition of moral teaching based on "authority" and punishment...
...Not the need to be redeemed from sin, but rather the promise of fullness of life is what continues to attract Africans to Christianity...
...The most unexpected delight came from The Rule of St...
...assembles the deeply moving personal journals of a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish we.nan written during the Nazi occupation of Holland, a work that breaks off abruptly with her deportation to Auschwitz in 1943...
...1893-1919 (University of Chicago, $19.95, 366 pp...
...Carbon just manages to form in the stars, and, once formed, barely escapes complete conversion to oxygen...
...But Schleiermacher, Rudolph Otto, William James, and others who argue for the self-warranting character of religious experience trade on ambiguities connected with the term ' 'experience" and fail to grasp the role of the subject's tacit explanatory categories in identifying an experience as religious...
...Fairbairn, and Heinz Kohut, providing a handy glossary, an extensive bibliographical essay, and illustrative case material...
...I love this book...
...402 pp...
...Information: Prof Peter Walshe, Dept...
...but I must mention James D. and Evelyn F.aton Whitehcad's The Emerging Ixittx: Returning Leadership to the Community of Faith (Doubleday...
...to Personnel Director.BFW, 802 Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington,DC 20018 by April 1, 1987...
...This book, which includes photographs of Etty and many of the persons mentioned in her letters and diaries, will be welcomed by all those who are coming to know and reverence this remarkable human being...
...148 pp...
...Bartholomew's God of Chance (SCM Press $9.95, 181 pp...
...Change by a few percent any of the fundamental dimensions and constants of physics and the universe goes blank, unable to produce stars, planets, life, and mind...
...Thomas Aquinas...
...T he three books I recommend to a large audience are diverse in subject but have a common assumption: that we must exercise all our human capacities in order to be responsible believers today...
...Religious education eventually has to include all religions, but in the Western world we are still trying to open dialogue between Jew and Christian...
...Dunne's book is making it possible for this Lonergan amateur to engage in an "attentive, intelligent, reasonable, and responsible" study of the Great Man...
...The educational conflict in this area is well explored in Women's Ways of Knowing by Mary Field Belenky and others (Basic Books, $19.95, 272 pp...
...One is The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcehook...
...Marty is one of the coordinating editors of a series of essays on religion and health entitled Caring and Curing, Health and Medicine in the Western Traditions, edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrell W. Amundsen (Macmillan, $35, 582 pp...
...Clair's Object Relations and Self-Psychology: An Introduction (Brooks/Cole, $17.00, 196 pp...
...Phone: (219) 232-0743 or 239-7312...
...Medieval Women's Visionary Literature, a volume edited by Elizabeth Alvilda Pctroff (Oxford University Press, $12.95...
...and Classical Mediterranean Spirituality...
...Unfortunately, the other periods—early Christian, Eastern, Reformation, and Modern—have, as yet, no such comprehensive guides to key sources...
...Bartholomew, professor of statistics at the London School of Economics, argues that the prevailing view that chance is inimicable to purpose is a misunderstanding...
...and translated by Raymond Canning, O.S.A (Doubleday Image Books, $3.95...
...13 March 1987: 157 Sully Cunneen SALLY cunneen teaches English at Rockland Community College (SUNY...
...The Moral Life of Children (Atlantic Monthly, $19.95, 302 pp...
...Bach was certainly a "pious Lutheran," but the traditions upon which he drew were broader and deeper than Lutheran pietism alone could provide...
...this is the Tarot gentled, deepened, and broadened for the twentieth-century Christian...
...her ancestors...
...450 pp...
...Meyer has provided the collection as a whole and each selection with an introduction...
...Paul I) Hanson has explored the growth of community in the Bible in his new book The People Called (Harper & Row...
...McMullin, a philosopher of science at Notre Dame, has gathered a dozen scholars from molecular genetics to biblical studies to argue the compatibility of evolution and creation...
...Winnicott, Melanie Klein, W.R.D...
...This year the correspondence of Etty Hillesum from the Dutch deportation camp, where she worked tirelessly on behalf of her fellow Jews before herself joining the transport east, has also been collected and published as Letters from Westerbork (Pantheon, $14.95, 155 pp...
...This superb introduction to the documents for the study of this period provides the basic liturgical information on the period for students of art, music, architecture, theology, and social history...
...Edith Wyschogrod EDITH WYSCHOGROD teaches philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York...
...This is a work that I predict will become a standard text in graduate courses in this area...
...Rather, a universe with fundamental randomness is the simplest and most efficient means by which God can create earth's rich displays of life and personality...
...If one important contribution of a book in this field is that it "open one's accounts with reality" (to use William James's phrase), then the Wilber, Brown, and Engler work exposes us to deposits from reflective resources largely untapped to date...
...In the course of his analysis, Proudfoot describes the work of the concept's proponents as well as his own view that religious experience depends on complex beliefs and linguistic structures...
...Professor Davies has selected authors from many parts of the world to provide a wealth of new material, much of it not even contemplated at the time of the previous (1972) edition...
...Meditating at length on the meaning of Jesus, "Abba" and "Amen," Donders develops from them a program of prayer and action for Western Christians: first, to sensitize them to different cultural forms of worship and theology within the human family, and second, to help us all find the source of our spiritual experiences in daily activities and relationships...
...The dialectic between American religion and modem culture is the organizing principle in Martin E. Marty's Modern American Religion, Volume I, Irony of It All...
...This is historical writing at its best, terse and lucid, combined with theological insight...
...Indispensable reading for vowed religious in my judgment, New Wineskins carries broader ecclesial import as well, and would make fascinating reading for all Catholics...
...The relation of morality to religion is a continuing question in all education...
...The deepseated need for security which developed in Europe in the fourteenth century turned both Western politics and religion to a more authoritarian, external focus, thereby removing the subjective and affective elements from "good" behavior and divorcing both from the intellect and the community...
...Leslie Hoppe, O.F.M., John Pilch, Ph.D...
...by Robert Coles is a resistance to that trend...
...Augustine, edited with an introduction and commentary by Tarsicius J Van Bavel, O.S.A...
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