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CORRESPONDENCE Gould & God Alexandria, Va. To the Editors: It's hard to know what to make of Nancy Haegel's review of Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus [September 27]. In the book...
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...Secondly, I am honestly not sure what the "ramifications of [Gould's] nonbelief" really are...
...Fowler does not wish to turn the church into a pious social service agency (proclamation, worship, education, etc., are very much a part of his thinking), but he very much wants the church to connect itself to the world and its needs...
...Founded in 1926 as a Benedictine school, Portsmouth has historically provided a rich and challenging liberal arts, college-preparatory program, which has deservedly earned the school a reputation of national recognition...
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...He stated otherwise, explicitly...
...Certainly his stance is a common one among scientists...
...p. 700, Chariot...
...He likes the metaphorical theology of Sally McFague and offers some trenchant remarks about both its promise and shortcomings...
...I do confess to complicity in believing that the scientific record alone does not support an interpretation of evolution in which we have a divinely ordained position of privilege...
...As a monastic school, Portsmouth embodies those ideals which lie at the heart of the fifteen-hundred-yearold Benedictine tradition: reverence for God, respect for learning, and an appreciation for shared experience of community life...
...Among those needs is the generation of theological metaphors which make God a vibrant reality for contemporary discourse...
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...In relation to the total war condemnation he helped shape, Austin Fagothey was the leaven in the leaven...
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...GEORGE B. McCENEY The reviewer r e p l i e s : Neither I nor Chester Finn thinks that tests are everything--but they are something...
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...The question is not so much Gould's atheism as Haegel's silence about it in a Commonweal review...
...He believes that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in ecclesiology and he intends to anticipate that shift by imagining new ways of conceiving the Christian community...
...However, I specifically chose not to address "Gould's atheism" for two reasons...
...the present work strikes me as a prolegomenon to such a systematic study...
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...As to questions of moral law, I will simply attempt to expand by letting Gould speak for himself: "The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered...
...He would recognize the redemptive power of suffering--in bearing the burdensome child or, for the sinner, in bearing the burden of an abortion...
...First, it reemphasizes a principal point the author wished to make...
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...David N. Power's historical analysis of the rise of episcopal authority in the early church at the expense of charismatic authority (e.g., of the martyrs and confessors) sets out the tension that circles around the issue of power to this day: how to provide a centering authority for the coherence of a tradition without caving into the tendency to accumulate power for the pleasure of its exercise...
...Until this year when girls were enrolled as day students, Portsmouth has traditionally educated men...
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...Father Austin Fagothey's total war dissertation, which I judged as corrupt, was a transforming agent in the peace lobby at Vatican II...
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...Perhaps the most obvious evidence of the silliness of the Finn formula for educational excellence lies in your September 27 issue...
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...He also hopes for an ecclesial theology which would be holistic enough to confront the broad challenges of ecology but, alas, is a bit too smitten by the rococo effusions of Matthew Fox...
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...Haegel's unbounded enthusiasm for Gould, appropriate for his gift of describing nature colorfully, suggests by its lack of reference to his mirthful nihilism either naivet6 or complicity...
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...And, if O'Malley had been on the faculty of the University of Rochester, which standardized test would Dennis O'Brien employ to judge O'Malley and what he taught his students...
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...Michael Downey has assembled a broad range of essayists to consider those problems both historically and existentially...
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...That, I think, is Gould's primary point and is reflected in some of the quotes in the review...
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...Portsmouth has a distinguished teaching faculty of 40 people, which includes 30 lay teachers, seven of whom are women, and ten members of the monastic community...
...In the book Gould asserts that evolution reflects no divine intent, that nature has nothing whatever to teach us about moral law, that humanity is but a "tiny and accidental evolutionary twig," a "mammalian afterthought" in an utterly indifferent universe, and that therefore "death is the ultimate enemy...
...Scattered throughout its pages are some very sensible reflections on the needs of the church but the work, as a whole, does not seem verb, coherently sustained (it was stitched together from disparate lectures, course offerings, etc...
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...O'MaUey on abortion Portland, Maine To the Editors: At the recent "Tribute to Frank O'Malley" at Notre Dame, I was pointedly reminded that in 1950 O'Malley had warned, in an uncharacteristic Wranglers banquet address (his context was usually literary) of coming challenges to the dignity of man--abortion, euthanasia, etc...
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...To the Editors: It is always with some sadness that I read Chester Finn and those who support his proposals for standardized national testing of student performance...
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...To the Editors: I am disturbed by Commonweal's change of the title of my article [October 11 ] from "The Leaven" to "Disarming Austin Fagothey...
...CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 674) since titles must conform to our typographic style, the space available, and our (fallible) judgment of readers' interests and writers' intentions...
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...His Christian humanism rested upon that dignity, so one could not fairly conclude, as Frank McConnell suggests in his September 27 article, that O'Malley would be uncertain about the unborn or neutral about abortion...
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...They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us--the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery and consensus...
...2 Pencils," reviewing Finn's We Must Take Charge, September 27) is not able to see beyond the gross superficialities that Finn embraces...
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...One of those theses lists, but does not discuss at length, a catena of other terms in contemporary ecclesiological discourse which need to be correctly understood if"empowerment" is to have coherent meaning...
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...While Fowler would not deny that older forms of church will persist, he makes a plea for a more "public church" (the term is from Martin Marty) which will engage the community in terms of the exigent realities of this world...
...The tonal register elides from theological analysis to biographical narratives to platform exhortation until we get to the final two chapters of the book on the public church which is at the heart of his argument...
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...Empowerment is one of those postVatican II theological buzzwords which could use a rest even though the concept itself carries with it many neuralgic problems for the church: the problem of the "clericalization" of lay ministries...
...First, I rarely find such religious labels--atheist, agnostic, humanist--helpful and I hesitate to apply them if individuals do not do so themselves...
...Folks named Finn, O'Brien, and McCeney all should have some respect for the Irish system of national school-leaving exams, which do not seem to warp the students or prevent various O'Malleys from succeeding...
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...Those final chapters, it seems to me, provide, in outline, a book that Fowler should write...
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...Space forbids even a gloss of the many areas touched on in this book (there are thirteen essays) but I would single out Bishop Robert Morneau's ten theses as worthy of extended discussion...
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...As a high school teacher for twenty-five years, I can only marvel at his naivetr...
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...Frank McConnell's wonderful piece on "Frank O'Malley of Notre Dame" eloquently relates the story of Every student's love affair with education...
...In a profound sense, it was the gentle, rigorously reasoning Austin Fagothey--whose conclusions I found intolerable--who did the disarming...
...His latest book concerns itself with these "stages of faith" (Fowler's paradigm sees seven of them) in terms of the church...
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