Religious booknotes

...He has a readable ly in the Soviet Union interviewing every- journalistic style, an eye for the sharply one from parish clergy, local rabbis, and drawn vignette, and a passion for his sub- mullahs to apparatchiks who work for the ject...

...This is his second book reporting on those travels...

...Ignatius of Loyola: A Biography of the Founder of the Jesuits, by Philip Caraman, SJ., Harper & Row, $22.95, 222 pp...

...the skepticism became pronounced when Tara and the Virgin get frothed up in the Jungian cuisinart...

...It is the work of a distinguished English Jesuit who is the author of a number of important Jesuit works...

...the happening with such rapidity in the Soviet Russian Old Believers...

...Also available: Academic Year Degree and Non-Degree Programs (M.A., M.Ed., C.A.E.S., Ph.D...

...Sheila Gilbert Indianapolis, Indiana For more information contact: Graduate Office-Guerin Hall Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 812-535-5206 eling...

...Philip Caraman traces out all those strands in this book while also giving us 76: Commonweal RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES an intimate portrait of a person who was not only a great mystic and religious founder but an apostle of charity and social action...

...for works more systematic than the one Forest's book is not a systematic treat- that Forest has written...

...Clair --Introduction to Pastoral Counseling .9 David Tracy -- The Christian Doctrine of God The following faculty will be teaching the week of the 20th Anniversary: Brown, Cooke, Fowler, Harris/Moran, Harrelson, Lowery and O'Donohoe...

...When he died, in 1556, his order was firmly established in the church and, consequent upon the close of the Council of Trent after his death, that same order's .activities both in Europe and elsewhere would become almost synonymous with the militant baroque movement which we now call variously the "Counter-Reformation" or the "Catholic Reformation...

...I think it was James Olney, in a pio- neering work on the theory of autobiog- raphy, who noted that every autobiography is both a theodicy implicitly (since it assumes an account of how one got from x to y in an ordered fashion), as well as being a fiction in the sense that in reflection we tend to pick and choose what is sig- nificant...

...1 work full-time...

...He has been the subject of a number of biographies but this new one can be highly recommended for its brisk and authoritative narrative line...

...Dan Wakefield is a well-known writer who is rapidly become better known as a religious writer...

...Wakefield does not focus on the- ory but it is clear from his samples that his students do think of their lives as taking on a shaped whole, and it is also clear that their lives are fictive in that they tend to look at the blazemarks that brought them to the present...

...Born a year before Columbus set foot in the New World and converted in 1521, the year Luther's break with Rome became definitive, Ignatius drew on some medieval paradigms to express his new- found faith in Christ: the Christian Knight...

...the Uniates...

...Had he simply transformed those models he would be remembered as a kind of summation of medieval piety...

...Sub- sequent chapters give a rapid survey of the Roman Catholic church...

...It is an attempt to give an account Religion in the New Russia, by Jim Forest, Crossroad, $17.95, 217 pp...

...the Pilgrim...

...For further information regarding all programs and the 20th Anniversary Celebration: Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry Boston College, Department R Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 (617) 552-8440 25 January 1991:77...

...publish- ing goes apace...

...and would rethink the older style of life found in monastery and priory (he fought mightily, for example, to avoid the obligation of the choral recitation of the Office for his company...

...Substantial Financial Aid for Degree Students...

...That she overcame addiction, alcoholism, and shaky maniages is to be applauded...

...and peaked when I realized that Galland was parking her children with var- ious relatives while taking off for Katmandu, India, and so on to seek "enlightenment...

...9 Bernard Cooke --Christology .9 Lawrence Cunningham --Theology of Church .9 Jay Dolan --American Catholics: Immigrant Roots and Contemporary Challenges .9James Fowler --Forming Personal and Public Faith .9 Thomas Groome --Christian Ministry: Education for the Reign of God .9 Gustavo Gutierrez/Roger Haight --Theology of Liberation/Approaches to Christ and Church in the Theology of Liberation (6-9 p.m...

...and seminaries again receive candidates...

...Having already published an account of his own spiritual journey, he how writes about how others can put down on paper their own spiritual autobiography...

...The Story of Your Life is partially a "how to" manual based on Wakefield's own expe- riences as a teacher of workshops on spir- itual autobiography and part anthology of some of the products of those workshops...

...monasteries reopened...

...Limited time on campus...

...The peculiar genius of Ignatius, however, was his ability to imag- ine a new kind of religious life that would look beyond Europe (as the early Jesuit missioners would demonstrate...

...One wonders whether she might have done just as well had she listened to the admonition of Pascal who warned that most of the world's prob- lems could be solved if people would only learn to stay in their rooms...

...That she has made peace with her past is a sign of hope...

...The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography, by Dan Wakefield, Beacon, $12.95, 178 pp...

...Ignatius Loyola wrote (or, more precise- ly, dictated) an autobiography toward the end of his life...

...Jews...

...the various forms of Protestantism (ranging Council of Religious Affairs...

...Free from the some- what starry-eyed enthusiasm that marred his Pilgrim to the Russian Church (1988), Forest is fair in describing the sad history of Orthodoxy in this century (it was per- secuted into craven compliance to the Soviet state until recently), and the obvious signs of a chastened resurrection: churches are filled...

...9 Walter Harrelson --Introduction to the Old Testament .9 Maria Harris/Gabriel Moran --Current issues in Religious Education .9 Robert Imbelli --Foundations of Theology .9 Robert Kennedy --Liturgical Theology and Practice .9 Claire Lowery --Integrative Colloquium: Theology and Pastoral Practice .9John Meier --The Gospel of Matthew .9 James O'Donohoe --Fundamental Ethics .9 Michael St...

...Until that biography comes along, we are well served by this shorter, but lov- ingly written, life of the saint...

...Events are from the Lutherans to the Adventists...

...of religious life there...

...Sabbatical Renewal Program...

...that would embrace the Christian humanism of the day...

...The program affords me the luxury of integrating home church and professional life...

...The external degree format begins with a weekend on campus, followed by work at home in regular consultation with professors...

...Many Orthodox are wary of the rebirth of a Slavophile move- ment like Pamyat with its ugly message of xenophobia and anti-Semitism...

...This is a helpful book both for the tech- niques Wakefield has developed and for the dynamics of how these classes operate...

...Wakefield's book might tempt me to try again...

...Sail Into liistodc Boston for the Summer of 1991 and Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Institute July 21-27th Two-Week Courses: June 24-August 2, 1991 .9 Barbara Bowe --Pastoral Introduction to the New Testament * Mary Boys -- Traditions of Religion and Education .9 Raymond Brown --Special Anniversary Lectures: New Testament Christology .9 Joan Chittister --Christian Spirituality and Contemporary Culture (6-9 p.m...

...Practical application of specific skills essential for ministry...

...It is rather an exercise us is a quick Cook's Tour of religious life in reportage by one who has traveled wide- in that part of the world...

...RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES SAINT MARY T-H-E W-O-O-D-S COLLEGE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PASTORAL THEOLOGY "I wanted the theological education and I wanted it with a pastoral emphasis...

...Commander William Ditewig, USN Bowie, Maryland External Degree Format Basic theological concepts and methods related to ministry...

...I have some skepticism about spir- itual seeking in San Francisco and Cambridge (she sat zazen in the former...

...Ignatius, I think, still deserves a great fat two-volume biography in English with long excursuses on everything from the roots of the Exercises to a more detailed description of his life in Rome...

...no mean task given both the immensity of the region (there are eleven time zones) and the complexity of the religious life of peoples who are both European and Asiatic...

...On-Campus Air Conditioned Apartments with Kitchen...

...I have sometimes used autobiographical essays in class with indifferent success, caused, perhaps, from my fear of being voyeuristic, and my incapacity to grade the results (do you give a student a "C" because his/her spiritual life is banal...

...What he has given ment of the topic...

...What is fascinating about the life of Ignatius is how he lived on the cusp of a number of sea changes in the religious life of the West...

...sought spiritual counsel in the latter...

...Development of personal spirituality with the knowledge and skills to assist others...

...Jim Forest, long-time peace activist, con- vert from Roman Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy, and now resident in Holland, has traveled widely in the Soviet Union...

...and Union that it is probably premature to ask Buddhists...

...It should not surprise us, given his own commitments, that he should devote nearly a third of the book to the Orthodox church in the era ofglasnost...

...There is, of course, a long and noble tra- dition of religious autobiography and a more recent trend in both studying and writ- ing autobiography as part of the spiritual quest...

...That she was a spiritual seeker, I have no doubt...

...Muslims...

...Three weekends and one 8-day summer session each year are the only on-campus requirements...

...the Hermit...