Religious booknotes:
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES The works of Martin Buber ogy. It is useful then to have a...
...Nonetheless, charistic canon that would do justice to the as a model both for authentic dialogue (a both Jews and Christians can learn much long historical tradition of the Western topic which is central for Buber) and for from his desire to listen to or better, con- liturgy...
...The long Mexican experiHarvard) as New Testament/early church cy...
...thaler's work is, then, a welcome and use- spiritual works, inscriptions, etc...
...More importantly, in brief but very clear ence in this country, say in the Southwest, scholars...
...Sacred Lives: Women's Contemporary Theology, by Berard Mart- in the liturgy makes plain, a proclamation Readings for the Liturgical Year, edited haler, T enti-7hird Publications...
...A nice touch...
...tion and care shown in this study...
...ward special pleading) are overshadowed limits of such language...
...4; writers realize that the term Hispanic is is when one tries for gender-inclusive lan- most of the biblical material is already pub- an abstraction since it covers, all too inguage...
...One can only to balance a sense of the Hebrew text with hope that he, or another sacramental thean eye for the reader who encountered the The Eucharistic Mystery: Revitalizing the ologian of his competence, will address text in the present situation...
...Students found the book dif- velopment in subsequent history...
...This vast theologtwo criticisms...
...just a few examples-some Dorothy Day, (such a template interrupts a narrative A number of the contributors to this volEdith Stein, Elizabeth of the Trinity, flow when he has a story to tell) but it has ume (Romero, Espin, Hinojosa) insist that Therese of Lisieux, Teresa of Jesus, Clare the hermeneutical lens through which one of Assisi, Gertrude of Helfta (represent- Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead must understand Hispanic religion is the ed only by a fragment culled from an an- Sea Scrolls...
...E. Total distribution (sum of C and rowed Feuerbach's insight and read either read widely in every area except the his- D): 18,662.F...
...the decline of Benediction...
...Actual number of copies of a single issue published nearest University Press...
...Behind those shifts there Marthaler's aim is to bring the Creed Dame...
...Managing Editor, Patrick Jordan, 15 Dutch St., New the lived experiences of people like those of the Pseudo-Dionysius (a fifth-century York, NY 10038...
...book an excellent survey...
...8. Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning fess that faith) united and alive...
...gious command of the scholarly literature) phenomenon but as a way of expressing The Dead Sea Scrolls have been much while a selected annotated bibliography, a sense of community, transcendence, in the news of late...
...language ( it is simply, almost aphoristi- He takes us from the New Testament cally, written) but because one could not Lawrence through the rather complex historical roads sit down and read through it at a clip...
...Guthrie has by mail, carrier or other means, sample complimentary and other free copies: 519...
...Buberian corpus...
...G. Total Religion, by Stewar7 Elliott Guthrie, Oxford fear that a too literal reading of Scripture (sum of E and F should equal net press run shown in A): 19,180...
...2. Returns from news agents: 771...
...Power (of Catholic University) give us a For about fifteen years I used Creeds, broad look at the development of euhis classic I and Thou as a charistic theology from its New Testament regular capstone for my course on the study prayers roots through its long and complicated deof religion...
...on a UNICEF poster...
...As yond Feuerbach: anthropomorphism is so (Continued from page 2) I have often said, only half jokingly, trust fundamental to the human enterprise that no theologian who does not belong to a it says something about being human and, tential circumstances that will confront parish and never uses the envelopes pro- as a consequence, is the foundational key many couples...
...He is, in short, in the posts as we look at the first part of the new light the experience of women in the tradition of those (beginning back in the catechism for the church which also frames church...
...Director, Mater Dei, E. Whatever particular problems I see with glects to account for the long tradition that 405 Sinto, Spokane, WA 99202...
...His scholarly citations are these theologians do not see religiosidad with the potentiality to be even better...
...are by women and others about them...
...14.95...
...There is a real payoff it) wishes to make a central and straight- temporary discussions of reader-response with this strategy...
...Wisely, they retained rightfully irritated about the slow pace of ly retaining their Hispanic identity, live the term "Lord...
...To tion of how creeds evolved in the church, Lectionaries are difficult works to pro- get a sense of the orientation of the work, the author devotes chapters to the affir- duce...
...the lished in 1986...
...Let me be satis- 1. Title of publication: COMMONWEAL...
...760 three their religious expressions could be applied, is a notorious example, but it shows up in times...
...As early and other free copies: 519...
...It is my good fortune an index of both citations from the scrolls hope, and liberation...
...rubric of "liberation theology," although The editors decided to use gender-inclu- This little catechism of the scrolls an- those who have read in it know all too well sive language (which is fine by me) but it swers questions about how the scrolls that it is better to speak of liberation thedoes point up a problem of prose style...
...2. Mail subscripjection of humanity's noblest aspirations tradition has strong parallels with both the tions: 17,174...
...Their efforts point up how scroll publications (especially of nonbib- within the North American reality...
...Guthrie, an anthropol- his theory seems, to this theologian, re- tify that the statements made by me above are correct and ogist from Fordham, goes a long way be- ductionistically naive...
...groups, is based on the Roman lectionary Marthaler, rightly, assumes that the creed The Creed: The Apostolic Faith in is both a statement of faith and, as its place Silent Voices...
...Dionysian ing I per cent or more of total amount of stock): Commonweal to keep the faith (and the people who pro- theology, in turn, had earlier roots...
...Furthermore, this same apophatic 19,842...
...It bracketed within the text (he has a prodi- popular as an alienating and repressive has been nourishing to use...
...rereading of one of the modem sages of realities of today...
...The Text as Thou: Martin Buber's ma...
...B. Annual my own, teach me about customs which Being" he borrowed his language from the subscription price: $39...
...Kepnes is at his best in but true fact that we are a diminishing tribe) In sum: a very fine piece of work by a describing Buber's principles of biblical can only marvel at the seismic shifts that scholar who has thought hard and read hermeneutics in which Buber attempted have occurred with reference to the Euch- widely about his subject...
...Many observant Jews found his lack The Eucharistic Mystery concludes with Dialogical Hermeneutic and Narrative of interest in being faithful to the Law trou- a survey of contemporary theological Theology, by Steven Kepnes, Indiana blesome (he himself was not Torah ob- thinking about the Eucharist, with a final Universirv Press, $35...
...Pace Juan Segundo, In sum: a splendid idea, well organized, wishes to treat...
...D. Free Feuerbach made religion a massive pro- tempts to avoid domesticating God through distribution by mail, carrier or other means, sample complimentary the (mis)use of human language...
...These vexatious a problem this linguistic tangle lical material from Qumran Cave No...
...In the light of conscience, vided for the Sunday collection...
...the sity, Berard Marthaler, has revised his to the reader demanding of her an equal sunsetting of "visits" to the Blessed book on the Creed which was first pubresponse...
...There Paulist, $8.95, 201 pp...
...F. L Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of as Origen in the third century, there is a after printing: 379.2...
...I Office use, leftover, unaccounted, spoiled after economic or psychological messages into tory of theology and, as a consequence, printing: 409...
...Commonweal 8 October 1993: 31...
...C. Total paid circulation: 17,481...
...6. Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor: Publisher, is not only to be found in the high-book cape from anthropomorphic language...
...By a judicious use of begin with when learning about Buber, but situation...
...El complete...
...a strategy that strikes scholar, has been involved with scrolls re- flood of theological publications from me as a fruitful one since it helps to keep 30: 8 October 1993 Commonweal RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES CORRESPONDENCE theology from flights into abstraction...
...ology department at the University of Notre High Masses...
...This reflects their choice of ex- pages, he tells us just how the scrolls help is not that of the vibrant Cuban commutrabiblical readings which are heavy in us get new insights into the New Testa- nity of South Florida, just as the urban exearly noncanonical and patristic sources ment...
...B. Paid Circulation: 1. Sales through dealers be horselike...
...A long- catechetical, which is to say that it respects punch line...
...That final chapter includes a model the construction of a narrative style of the- verse with-the accumulated source(s) canon which would link our liturgy with ology...
...of praise (a doxology...
...Buber wrote much on Jewish nar- of revelation and from his abiding seri- its Jewish antecedents while taking cogratives, especially those coming from the ousness...
...perhaps "people's rethe patristic period to be so parsimonious...
...one a visceral reaction and written both important scholarly studies ical enterprise goes under the general the other a more "academic" suggestion...
...B. Paid Circulation: 1. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 969...
...3. Frequency of issue: every other Friday except Christmas, New Year's and monthly July and contributors open up a world which is not Tillich described God as the "Ground of August...
...suasive for the simple reason that he ne- 633-2252, Ext...
...Elegantly distills a half century of debate over church and state: everything essential, is here.'L...
...Mail subscriptions: 16,428...
...After all, the analysis of these scholars ample, versions of the Anthropic Principle about their communities, their customs, and (in either the "weak" or "strong" variation) RATES: 80¢ a word, one time...
...COMMONWEAL, 15 century (I leave aside those Hispanic com- Guthrie argues that anthropomorphism Dutch St., NYC 10038...
...by Joseph A. Fit-,niyer•, SJ., vibrant, popular, paraliturgical complex thology), Angela of Foligno, etc...
...only the evidence of the theologians but Kepnes's study (it has the lingering that of popular religiosity and the growth marks of a Chicago dissertation all over Buber's conviction fits nicely with con- of the liturgy itself...
...I have only Murphy and Raymond Brown), he has American perspective...
...Five centuries before it in Rahner) via mystics like John of the Federal income tax purposes have not changed during preChrist, Xenophanes argued that if horses Cross...
...this volume (like every book written from recognizes the problem of anthropoan ethnic position there is a tendency to- morphism and attempts to overcome the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (act of August 12,1970: Section 3685, Title 39, United States Code...
...flections, to the actual life and practice of Joseph Fitzmyer, a prodigiously gifted For the past generation we have had a their communities...
...1 (800) War immigrations...
...on Good problems in contemporary culture...
...37Q pp...
...C. Total paidchculation:18,143.D.Fteedistribution and ideals...
...Is were discovered, how they are being edit- ologies...
...4. Location of known office of publication: 15 Dutch St., New York, NY 10038...
...tradition, in turn, continues into the con- or holding I per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortThat religion involves anthropomor- temporary period (there are elements of gages or other securities: None...
...1 certhese projections...
...This may not be the book to nizance of the needs of the contemporary Hasidic tradition...
...This revised version of Mar- ical sources, martyrologies, hagiography, discourse on the mysteries of faith...
...Those pages, untutored as I am in perience of Puerto Ricans is dissimilar to but very thin once they get past the me- this area, were worth the price of the book...
...search for nearly forty years...
...and more popular and accessible books...
...174 pp...
...copies printed (Net Press could draw their pictures the gods would Guthrie has no sustained familiar- Run): 19,180...
...When Paul September 30, 1993...
...Edward S. Skillin, 15 Dutch St., New York, NY 10038...
...Aquinas's discussion in terms of the popBuber has always been a bit of an enig- ular eucharistic piety of the Middle Ages...
...7. Owner (if owned by a corporation, its women (oradoras) who take command of Syriac monk) who was widely comment- name and address must be stated and also immediately there under the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holdministry in priestless villages and barrios ed on in the medieval period...
...E. Total distribution (sum of C and D): 18,000...
...Total (sum of E and F should equal net press run shown in A): 19,842...
...servant) while Zionists were vexed by his chapter devoted to suggestions about a euinterest in a binational state...
...Some After an economical but clear descrip- ful addition to that literature...
...munities, largely in the Southwest, who is at the "core of religious experience...
...Under 55...
...Richard Haas, Business Manager...
...In lengthy chap- obligatory contribution to finding the truth...
...What impressed me most about contemporary critical theory Kepnes makes for those who have read him this sophis- this model was its resistance to any trendithis point a leitmotif of his rather dense ticated study will drive them back to a fresh ness while being obedient to the exigent study...
...for the vast number of topics which he ligion" is a better term...
...Kepnes argues elegantly that Sacrament...
...Average numberof copies each issue during preceding 12 months: A. Total no...
...With fifteen of the cases there is also a sampling of contemporaneous editorial comment from such sources as the New York Times, The Christian Century, and The New Republic...
...RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES The works of Martin Buber ogy...
...720 six times...
...United States, edited by Allan Figuerora reminds me of something one might find Fitzmyer writes, at least in part, to Deck, S.J., Ohis, $16.95...
...Gustavo Gutierrez is not Jon it really an advance to substitute "child of ed for publication, what their significance Sobrino who is not Leonardo Boff...
...Twenty-five of the Supreme Court's most important religious-liberty cases between 1940 and 1992 Engel v. Vitale, Abington v. Schempp, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Lee v. Weisman, and many more-are introduced, excerpted, and annotated in this volume...
...A. No...
...by Barbara Boss-e, R. S. C. JJ et a1, Parrlist...
...monthly in advance for more group who settled here at the turn of the of the "birth" and "death" of stars...
...221 pp...
...A wonderfully handy, volume...
...The readings (apart from the bibpatristic period) who use the affirmations itself, at least in part, as a commentary on lical texts) are gathered from extracanonof the Creed as a launching pad for a wider the Creed...
...which goes under the name of religiosihave been just too many texts written by dad popular (inadequately understood as women (and recovered by scholars) after the advantage of providing precise focus "popular" religion...
...If the editors ever desire to The question/answer format of Fitz- from such tortured countries as El Salvador expand their lectionary let us have-to cite myer's book has certain disadvantages and Guatemala...
...putative scrolls conspiracies, anti-Semitic lection of essays in order to give voice to Was this an oversight or was there another plots, Vatican machinations, etc...
...This current lectionary, meant time religious educator, Marthaler has a the intellect of the reader while making to be used by communities or prayer clear prose style, remembers that his in- appeal to her desire for religious response...
...Apart from is, and how they bear on our understandthe debate about the phrase's meaning in ing of both Judaism and the New Testa- Frontiers of Hispanic Theology in the the Bible, the term "child of humanity" ment...
...Any literate person who who are classically trained after the terest not only in themselves but may wishes solid, nonsensational information European model (Goizueta and Garcia) shed light on the period immediately pre- about the scroll material will find this tend to turn, as the matrix for their receding the life of Jesus...
...In Part Two, legal scholars Mary Ann Glendon, Michael J. Sandel, and Michael W. McConnell comment on trends in the Court's religion-clause jurisprudence...
...are, of course, shifts in eucharistic theol- into dialogue with contemporary theolo28: 8 October 1993 Commonweal RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES gy and religious experience from the per- rests somewhere between theological and verse or ended before the appropriate spective of the Catholic tradition...
...ceding 12 months...
...It is good that we have such works but with readings culled from the tradition ologian, and fully intends to make his book not only for their own value but as sign- to supplement those readings and to higha pedagogical tool...
...than three times...
...Like other south of the border written by thinkers who I have enjoyed reading from the lec- scholars of his generation (e.g., Roland try to articulate theology from a Latin tionary and profited from it...
...In the modern period, Ludwig ity with the apophatic tradition and its at- and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 1,053.2...
...Before he treats Saint forward point: Buber's thought is such that theory and goes to some lengths to explain Thomas, for example, Power situates he should be seen, as the subtitle indicates, why...
...Buber's trans- Tradition, by David N. Power, Crossroad, the other sacraments with the sophisticalation reached for a dialogue between $29.95...
...yields a deficient conception of transcen- to filing date: Total number copies printed (Net Press Run): dence...
...For Buber the text is al- Power's colleague at Catholic Univerways a potential Thou which speaks back arist: the emargination of tabernacles...
...The editors struck counter the more tendentious claims of the term "Father" for God (a problemat- those scholars who publish by press re- Members of ACHTUS (Academy of ic decision in its own right) but could not lease and to sort out and contextualize the Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the quite pull that off since it shows up in their journalistic stories which evolve around United States) have now put together a colversion of Luke 2:49 (see: December 31...
...9. The purpose, function and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for phisms is a banality...
...humanity" for "son of man...
...S. Cunningham of the patristic, medieval, post-Tridentine, Indeed, the work's value is that for those and contemporary periods...
...He is Hispanic Catholics who, while vigorouscriterion utilized...
...The stantly frustrated because the selection Friday and the Easter Vigil, the readings tone of the chapters is hard to describe: it always started right after an important recount the martyrdom of men and women RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE SUPREME COURT The Cases That Define the Debate Over Church and State Edited by Terry Eastland The simple language of the "religion clause" of the First Amendment has been anything but simple to apply...
...final chapter with some apposite remarks pelling the author's argument is...
...Editor, culture studied by the theologians but in Eckhart, in turn, is a spiritual descendant Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, 15 Dutch St., New York, NY 10038...
...That Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, NY 10038...
...The ten fied with a single example...
...lished) but sees the problem more in terms adequately, cultures and histories that are Two of the editors were trained (at of scholarly monopoly than of conspira- quite diverse...
...435 pp...
...Returns from news agents: 801...
...I say "complex" who wish to engage it the demand for slow because Power is determined to evoke not reading is absolutely necessary...
...not addressed in these essays (Espin al- ters he shows that anthropomorphism is RAYMOND F. ROBERTS, JR...
...ficult not because of the complexity of the & theories Power's book is historically oriented...
...His Priesthood were here centuries before the post-Civil case is, in my estimation, not very per- DESIRE PRIESTHOOD...
...5. Location of are not mine, and forcefully remind me Rhineland mystics (Tillich's "Ground" the headquarters of general business offices of the publishthat the vibrancy of the Catholic tradition is, e.g., Eckhart's Grund) to attempt an es- ers: 15 Dutch St., New York, NY 10038...
...Last spring I was asked to deliver one might look at the Holy Week readings: mations of the Creed and, where apposite, reflections on some Lenten lectionary read- from Palm Sunday through Thursday the adds an excursus that illumines certain ings for a local church...
...for understanding the fact (as well as the this is not dissent from truth but rather an One issue that does occur to me but is persistence) of religion...
...reader and text...
...2. Date of filing: by the richness of the material...
...This revision consists both different cadences connected with the cel- of updatings of the bibliographies and of LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM chairs the the- ebration of the liturgy (remember Solemn rewriting certain chapters...
...Marx, and after him, Freud, bor- Hindu and Buddhist traditions...
...ludes to it in a footnote) is what happens the way in which humans deal with evto this Hispanic worldview in North erything from perception in general to America as Hispanics enter the more ho- artistic, philosophical, and scientific dismogenized mainstream of American cul- course in particular...
...that of Central Americans newly arrived dieval period...
...It is useful then to have a highly comhave been a regular part of petent sacramental theologian like David my undergraduate syllabus...
...In science, for ex- CLASSIFIED ture...
...Power concludes this I will leave to others to judge how com- Israel...
...As a consequence, to have colleagues who are experts on these and the Bible, and a general index round even those theologians in this volume manuscript discoveries which are of in- off the volume...
...of issues published annually: 22...
...What I Those who remember Catholic worship on ritual performance but-wisely, I most appreciated was his survey of the before the reforms of Vatican II (it is a sad think-without giving too many specifics...
...Many writers, from antiquity on, have $22.95, 464 pp, commented on the Creed and will continue tended audience is not the professional the- to do so...
...AKHIL AMAR, professor, Yale Law School 526 pages $29.95 cloth ISBN 0-89633-178-4 Available at bookstores or through National Book Network, 1-800-462-6420 ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER 1015 Fifteenth Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Commonweal 8 October 1993: 29 RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES in second-century Gaul...
...Classified payable mutatis mutandis, to almost any immigrant less obvious ways (e.g., when we speak with order...
...I found myself con- readings are from the Bible...
...30, 290 pp...
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