Doing Well and Doing Good
Weakland, Rembert G.
The perils of this kind of discontinuous interpretation are seen most clearly when Neuhaus deals with the pope's exhorta- tion to make important changes in estab- lished lifestyles. Since this...
...He calls this sen- tence "a throwaway line...
...Given Father Neuhaus' s background, I had also expected more of the biblical section...
...The first is the the creator...
...Bellah's argument is thoughtful, personal and lucidly presented, and it comes to a provocative, challenging conclusion...
...The section on pover- ty is mixed...
...The second is something PLETEBEING one of my first graduate students, all those Ted Hughes years ago at Corneil, dropped in conver- Farrar, Straus & Girou• pp...
...As an appendix to the book Father Neuhaus has printed a "condensation" (his word) of Centesimus annus that first appeared in First Things, August-Septem-ber 1991...
...I was not surprised to find that the sentence of John Paul II in #52 on changing the es- tablished lifestyles was omitted...
...James R. Kelly, America THE CII X T A BROKEN _.,,, t American Civil Religion in Time of Trial Second Edition ROBERT N. BELLAI-I In this second edition of his acclaimed book, Bellah presents the summation of his views on the integrity of the religious dimension of American society as distinct from its churches...
...It's why students, shaking argument of my old mentor and sensei their heads in stunned disbelief, are walk- Harold Bloom, that a"strong" poet is best ing out of English classes in droves...
...Stephen Ainley, College of the Holy Cross $12.95 paper At bookstores, or, for MC/VISA orders, call: 1-800-621-2736...
...Naturally one is more interested in what the condensation omit- ted than in what it chose to synthesize...
...For an interpretation of the treatment of capitalism in Centesimus annus that is more continuous with previous papal teaching and probably more "authoritative," I refer the reader to "//Capitalismo nell'encicli-ca Centesimus annus" in La Civiltgt Cat- tolica (1991, 11,417-430...
...The solution is indeed par- ticipation, but the vastness of the problem on a national and international scale seems to escape the author, because it demands more of capitalism than any form of it, even the "new capitalism," is able to deliver...
...THE BARD'S PRIMAL SCENE SHAKESPEAREAND THE GODDESSOFCOM- of a strong critic...
...William A. Sadler, Jr., Christian Century 'X unique combination of historical reflection and social criticism...
...Since this sentence contradicts the thesis of the ever-expand- ing and limitless market that will solve all poverty problems and thus that there is no need for the rich to divest themselves of any of their wealth, Neuhaus states: "As much as we are inclined to be generous, however, honesty requires our saying that the sentence about changing 'established lifestyles' is most likely a vestigial rhetor- ical fragment that somehow wandered into the text and is notable chiefly for its incongruity with the argument that the pope is otherwise making...
...and served only by the creative misreadings they're right...
...I admire the attempt to put such difficult prose into simple declarative sen- tences without losing the sense...
...It is unfortunate, however, that there is no clear exposition of the com- mon good, or of such typically John Paul terms as solidarity...
...It is in- deed a noble attempt...
...One of the important reflections on the meaning of the American experience...
...In Illinois: 312-568-1550 The University of Chicago Press Commonweal 6 November 1992:31...
...To believe that Pope John Paul II was guilty of throwaway lines that are "vestigial rhetorical frag- ments" takes faith, indeed...
...Frank McConnell Fighting words, those, especially in the current climate--chilly and overcast--of academic criticism, deconstructionist ~l eading Ted Hughes's and/or new historicist, where the aim of D grand, maddening, and reading great stuff (these guys, of course, finally un-put-downable would even blush to use the word "great") book on Shakespeare, I seems to be, mainly, to reduce the great__ kept thinking about two ness to a series of tics and evasions in the propositions that have echoed in my mind service of a Eurocentric, logocentric for years--and feeling that in a funny power structure--and, coincidentally, to way I had to wait for this book to give them exalt the function of the critic over that of their final, radiant sense...
...Excellent sections of the book deal with participation and especially with sub- sidiarity...
...sation: "There are two kinds of criticism-right and interesting...
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