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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES 0 f books about Merton Joseph F. Chorpenning's study of...
...Home for about 25 moved into Western Europe energized on us by the circumstances of our lives men, women, children...
...If Georges and his understanding of context is a sistant Jewish scriptures...
...Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., NY AVAILABLE Helen Gallagher, NY Bernard J. O'Loughlin, CA [ROM UMI Joseph E. Geoghan, CT Donald O'Toole, IL J James P. Geoghegan, Esq., PA John R. Page, VA Available in one or more Ella Mae Gogel, IA Carl A. Pettersch, MI of the following formats: Robert C. Grace, CA David and Marlene Pratto, NC • In Microform Doris Grumbach, ME Joseph and Gertrude B. Quinn, DE • In Paper Jerome Halloran, MN Helen M. Ranney, M.D., CA • Electronically, on CD-ROM, John A. Hampsey, M.D., PA In Memory of Kathleen Carroll Reasoner, NC online, and/or magnetic tape Jane B. Hart, MI Rev...
...why not Joseph Fitzmyer or Richard influential Alain, her philosophy teacher Asides like that run through the text with McCormick (to name two North in Paris, was on her thinking and in the such regularity that I would put this book Americans of great scholarly stature...
...Farm and living buildings excellent...
...Nevin, nonethe- who wrote "theologically," and Jacques up by Carolingian forgers who transless, sees her under the rubric of the Jewish Derrida whose connections to theology are formed pagan divinities into Christian "Just Person" who did not talk about the indirect and-let me express a prejudice saints...
...The editor's point, in little book In Search of Christian Wisdom a helpful survey, is that themes dear to Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, edited by commenting on Socrates' aphorism, later hagiography are less common in by Robert Ellshe rg...
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...liant suggestion-I think-that her well- hope they will not find it as nettlesome a known hatred for Rome and its empire may chore as I did...
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...His forward biography...
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...read this book both for the broad bio- sense of narrative order to works that graphical information Shannon provides even the most sympathetic critics find Silent Lamp: The Thomas Merton Story, in a series of chronologies which locate sprawling and difficult...
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...he is general editor of the five volumes Anyone who would like a first introducof letters), is a trained theologian, and a tion to Thomas Merton would do well to The merit of this approach is to give a person of wide culture...
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...He goes a long way to start as a prelude to reading such mono- what he has produced is a very fine, exin answering a question often asked: Why graphs on Merton...
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...In fact, Merton's major texts...
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...Day, a journalist by training, had a The true Christian must constantly repatronage...
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...She was also a reader who their ascetical lives were a new form of had a fine eye for the aphorism and martyrdom...
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...his Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master against other interpretations and against (Paulist) was recently published...
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...of Avila has a methodological framework...
...Michael Mott's The Seven He is convinced that her four major works Mountains of Thomas have a kind of frame that derives from her Merton (1984) is the most More own passion (one shared by both the hisexhaustive biography but its encyclope- torical Ignatius of Loyola and the ficdic narrative left little space for reflection holy people tional Don Quixote) for medieval and analysis...
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...1989) good on narrative but short on Shannon is excellent in showing how analysis and David McLellan's Utopian Merton grew and, in that growth, how he Pessimist (1990) first-rate for its intellecwas able to live in a profoundly traditional tual grasp of Weil's writings...
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...And cial figures in the history of Christian also...
...Edward) McHugh, IL Name Rev...
...speak clearly of a time when Christianity are not as meritorious as those imposed Variety of animals...
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...Each person gets a mod- landist, Hippolyte Delahaye, demolished her food, her energy, and, in the final est paragraph or two with an encapsulat- that theory by showing that these stories analysis, her life...
...Furthermore, he Weil is the third large-scale work on the was able to move out from that deep cen- French writer/mystic which I have comter and contact a wide circle of people who mented on in this column over the past few differed from him in religion, temperament, years...
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...He is also good in of a particular work (he is exceptionally much of the spirit of Vatican II: De Lubac showing how Weil read classical texts good, for instance, on Weils's The Need through the lens of her burning interest for Roots...
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...the temptation to dwell on the eccentric24: 12 February 1993 Commonweal RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES ity of her life at the expense of other writ- evangel of "knowledge as worship" (the Oxford Dictionary of Popes...
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...It would also serve as tremely readable, not overly long, introdoes Merton endure and why the fascina- a guide for reading Merton since Shannon duction to the Teresian corpus...
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...Merton's only peer in this regard portant essays from the hundreds Merton introduction for someone who wished to would be C. S. Lewis who is himself the wrote...
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...Herr says: "If that was true for him, Little time is spent on virginity (many The selections are just long enough to it must be even more true for those who, were married and widowed) or on the pur- read as discrete pieces...
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...I am happy to say that the auical information and close reading of done one of those), but it is a good place thor did not fall into the latter trap...
...and Mrs...
...Dorothy R. Dillon, DC Michael Grady, WA Commonweal 12 February 1993: 29 Josephine Grandillo, NY Mr...
...they shed on the role of women in the nursing but the rest of her wasn't good church...
...and Mrs...
...Daniel M. Cantwell, IL August Durelli, MD Julia Albrecht, MD Fray Juan M. Carlos, Spain In Memory of Monica Durkin, OH Frank D. Almade, PA Gregory and Mary Carnevale, MI Rev...
...Msgr...
...he gives us enough lical commentators as those who impose choice of persons is so idiosyncratic that of the life to put the writings in context a Christian anagogy on "innocuous and re- one hesitates to begin...
...Mallard, NJ James Herndon, OH In Memory of Lawrence C. King, CA Most Rev...
...Tom Dinter, Ph.D., NY Dr...
...Arthur A. Campbell, NY In Memory of Dorothy Drish, IL Anonymous, PA Rev...
...Robert L. Berner, Jr., IL John M. Corcoran, MA Rev...
...Miles, NJ Marjorie Kovler Foundation, IL Joseph E. Connolly, MA Edward and Marguerite Kowaleski, MI John Murphy, MA Mrs...
...He makes the bril- will need to work through this book...
...Msgr...
...collection first published under the title cating priests but not good enough to beBy Little and by Little (Knopf, 1983...
...of the time, and for his sensitive reading oretical frame into which the texts get hamof Merton's texts...
...Richard P. Bendel, MN Edward M. Corbett, TX Rev...
...This was a topos that goes maxim...
...whole point of the Gita is to love God...
...Edward Law, Ontario Alfred and Patricia McCauley, MD Mrs...
...Thomas S. Knight, Jr., CT Joan Dunn Walsh, NY Mary Anne Barry, IL Rev...
...In the Catholic ed and translated hr Jo Ann HcNwnara et writings of Dorothy Day is a reprint of a church, nuns were good enough for edual., Duke University Press, $17.95, 340 pp...
...Francis X. Meehan, PA Fernande Pruden, DC David L. Smith, PA Lawrence F. Meehan, DE Dennis and Leslie Purcell, NY Rev...
...Mary Segers and Dr...
...The institution of slavSainted Women of the Dark Ages, edit- Robert Ellsberg's anthology of the ery had to be preserved...
...22.95, Merton's life in tandem with the events course, is the temptation to construct a the304 pp...
...I found myself jotting some of CLASSIFIED all the way back to Athanasius's Life of them down and will share just enough of Anthony: the ascetic life as a daily mar- them with readers to prompt them to go tyrdom...
...Charles Heideman, IL Alice Kilcoin, NY Denis G. Mahoney, NY Rev...
...Frederick Breydert, France Carroll Devitt, NY James F. Glynn, NY James F. Bridges, IL Stanley E. Dewey, OH R.T...
...and Mrs...
...Raymond A. Lucker, MN Joseph H. Beecher, MA Mary Connolly, MA Robert E. Mack, M.D., MI Rev...
...His life and writ- Thomas R. Nevin's study of Simone ings, in short, rang true...
...Helen Brinich, OH Dr...
...Charles Wasilewski, Jr., PA Marie T. Byrne, NY Rev...
...William J. Byron, S.J., DC Thomas Di Silvio, PA Thomas L. Wright, M.D., OH Owen and Mary Jane Cahill, NY William B. Dixon, Esq., PA Jane Wyatt, CA Rosemary Cahill, IL James and Kathleen Doig, GA Mary C. Calabrese, MA Daria Donnelly, MA Sustaining Jack Caldwell, CA Phyllis M. Doyle, IL A Grateful Reader, PA John F. Callaghan, MI William J. Dowell, MI Anonymous, MN Edward T. Callan, MI Thomas P. Dowling, NY Anonymous, NJ John Callanan, CA Pauline Drawver, IL Anonymous, NY L. A. Cambey, NY Gene Driscoll, MA Anonymous, PA Rev...
...Director, Mater Dei, E. tle contrast to the warrior virtues of their "We need to create a society where it 405 Sinto, Spokane, WA 99202...
...Simone Weil had little love for the Old Christian datum...
...a mention of important were connected to places where a cult and the experience of justice that drove her to works...
...enough for freedom...
...I will place answer is that Merton, despite his penchant it right next to my volumes of Teresa's to reach for a pen too hastily at times, lived works, which is where it most appropriand wrote out of a deeply centered life of ately fits...
...Wall, FL Thomas P. O'Connor, IN Marie Ruff, IL Bill Walsh, CT Helen M. Oechsli, NY Donald B. Runkle, KS Mary P. Walsh, NY James O'Gara, NY Margaret and Ben Russell, CA Moira Walsh, NJ Dr...
...Or•his...
...VOCATION DIRECTOR, ligion were often more critical than learned...
...Norman J. Faramelli, MA Pierre and Jill Auger, MA Lawrence M. Clemens, MN Patrick V. Felker, WI Edwina M. Baehr, LA Thomas Cohen, DC In Memory of Barbara E. Ferkiss, MD Bruce and Rose C. Bagin, PA J. Rawson Collins, OH W.H...
...Victor (Sophie B.) Angelescu, MI Mrs...
...Raymond Bosler, IN In Memory of Mary A. Crimmins, CA Angela M. Mathews, NY M. Joseph Bowler, M.D., MI Most Rev...
...Albert W. Kramer, NJ Gerard Martineau, MA Patience (Mrs...
...formation of her style, and, again, how down in exasperation only to pick it up More strange is the omission of a string she slowly evolved out of Alain's again because of the value of his analysis of authentic giants who set the stage for Cartesian rationalism...
...Joseph A. Heaney, NY Rev...
...J. Craig Kuhn, PA Vincent Masi, MA Alfred F. Horrigan, KY Thomas and Barbara Kummerer, IL Jim Masini, IL Virginia Horrigan, CT Patricia Kurfman, CO Paul L. Mathews, KY John B.A...
...Gobel, PA Mrs...
...LaLonde, NY Frank J. McCabe, NY Joseph Hynes, OR Julia A. Lane, IL Rev...
...He will not countenance Weil as a hidden believer or with tradition a Christian mystic...
...Wallace (Bernarda) Erwin, GA William J. Argy, NY Mrs...
...Frank Westhoff, MO Rev...
...This is an exemplary were clearly powerful in their own right People who object to female priests recontribution to the ongoing recovery of the and in their capacity to affect society di- mind me of slave owners who let slave history of women in the Christian tradi- rectly...
...and Mrs...
...Eleanor C. Palatucci, NY Rev...
...The black tion...
...John A. Boehning, NY Margaret Darken, PA Paul F. Gerosky, PA Andrew Bongiorno, OH Rosemary (Mrs...
...William J. Bausch, NJ Donald E. and Eleanor Price, NJ Lee F. Driscoll, Jr., PA Helen Reynolds, VA Cyril and June Buersmeyer, MI The Equitable Foundation, NY John F. Rieger, VA Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Ralph Dwan, Jr., DC Dr...
...Peter A. Rosazza, CT Janet P. Vickrey, NY Mary Ellen O'Connor, NY Thomas J. Rose, M.D., MN A.E.P...
...and Mrs...
...Chenu, Danielou, Guardini, and John well be linked to her disgust at French John Bowden's little book has an am- Courtnay Murray...
...Peter L. Gerety, NJ Rev...
...Msgr...
...Donald W. Mcllvane, PA Rev...
...Frederick Franck, NY Rev...
...Best not easy for anyone, least of all a senior power of the saint (that was a sign that of all, of course, was her burning faith institutionalist...
...James B. Finn, MO Bruce and Cynthia Russett, CT Virginia Hughes, NY Rev...
...The and her total commitment to the poor and MARTIN YOUNG biographers also liked to point out that the outcast...
...152 pp...
...William J. Murphy, MI James L. and Claire G. Rivers, VT Michael F. and Barbara J. Toohig, VA Rev...
...Robert Janson, CT Michael J. Lawrence, IN Dorothy M. McCauley, FL r I Paul W. and Maris McCloskey, MD Neil G. McCluskey, FL John and Mary Ann McCudden, IL BECOME A 1993 ASSOCIATE John A. McCue, NY Leroy K. and Rosemary Z. McCune, DE COMMONWEAL ASSOCIATES Joseph W. McDonnell, NY 15 Dutch Street, New York, N.Y...
...His vigor in reacting since 1898...
...John C. Behen, C.PP.S., OH Rev...
...William J. Leonard, S.J., MA Frances Greene, PA Mrs...
...Raymond H. Schmandt, PA Rev...
...Philip J. Kenney, NH Paul Magnano, WA Ronald L. Heidelberger, MI Anne and Wendell Kestle, AL Anna E. Mahoney, MA Mrs...
...do a careful study of Teresa's autobiogcenter of a publishing industry...
...William D. Mannion, IL Stephen J. Hill, Ontario Christopher Koller and Colette Cook, NY Mrs...
...The fact that monastic culture (the contours of which I now mention a third biographical work he himself would change) with an open- points out that Weil is the kind of person whose life (and thought) does not yield easLAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM chairs the de- ily to a definitive work...
...James B. Flynn, MA Kay Siemssen Batts, CA Joseph R. Corcoran, NJ Eugene Fontinell, NY Paul N. Bauer, OH Rev...
...and Sally Fullman, NJ William F. Bell, MA Joseph B. Crimmins, CT Frank and Jeanette Gallagher, PA Robert N. Bellah, CA James J. Cronin, MD Paul Galvin, DC John J. Bennett, VA In Memory of Margaret Dagenais Crossan, IL Mrs...
...The a tradition could be traced back to Gallofactory work and to the civil conflict in book ends with a list of popes that draws Roman times...
...El M D 21402...
...MA Margaret H. Wimsatt, CT Clare M. Byrnes, PA Charles DiSalvo, WV M.J...
...William G. Connare, PA Arthur W. Fleming, M.D., PA James D. Barger, M.D., NV Doris Connelly, NY Mary Ann Fleming, KS Russ and Bernie Barta, IL Paul Connolly, NY Charles Fletchinger, Jr., AL Elizabeth Bartelme, NY Donna M. Cooper, VA Eileen P. Flynn, NJ Stanley A. Bartus, M.D., CT Catherine Corbin, NY Rev...
...John Fahey, CA John J. Arnott, PA Kevin J. Christiano, IN Rev...
...Robert Hazel, MN Jim Kelly, NY Frank J. and Mary Macchiarola, NY Mr...
...RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES 0 f books about Merton Joseph F. Chorpenning's study of Teresa there seems to be no end...
...He has not written a straight- he kisses off a millennium of patristic bib- readers to supply what is lacking...
...15.95, 371 pp...
...Anthony J. Daniele, MA Richard E. Gellott, OH John Bodner, Jr., DC William T. Darden, NY Most Rev...
...and Mrs...
...Charles Chatfield, MA Rev...
...Subsequent biographical romances...
...Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., IN Mr...
...Leonard E. Racki, CO Eloise Spaeth, NY Alice T. Meyer, MN John T. Radelet, PA Dr...
...Bartholomew J. Merella, MD Catherine M. Connolly, CA G.E...
...Benefactors Paul Lockrey, NJ Vivienne Blanquie, CA Virginia Belle Lowers, CA Anonymous, TX Ann T. Bretsch, WV Mig Boyle, NY Patricia MacManus, NY William D. Broderick, VA Stephen Manning, KY Sidney and Daniel Callahan, NY Gerald P. and Marie Caffrey, WI William H. McCaslin, NY Thomas J. Donnelly, Esq., PA Rev...
...William Keegan, DE Sheila Lyne, IL Robert S. Hathaway, PA Dorothy Keenan, IL Kathleen V. Lyons, KY Rev...
...Kathleen M. Vertin, MN Patricia J. Nussey, NY Shirley A. Rogers, TX Lillian Doris Viacava, NY Gerald O'Connell, CT Most Rev...
...Hogan, PA Mary Ellen Krauss, MI Robert C. Martinez, CA Rev...
...Their stories are interesting in women nurse their children...
...Marge Desiderio, NJ Clara Glenn, MN Mrs...
...Msgr...
...William H. Morgan, MA Ruth Carroll, PA Susan Donnelly, MI John E. Mulgrew, PA Frank Donovan, NY Kathleen and John Murnion, NY Linda C. Dowling, NJ Daniel M. Murtaugh, FL Rev...
...she was a saint) during her lifetime...
...Chorpenning borrows from the volumes by writers like Basil Pennington Lawrence theoretical work of the late Northrop Frye and James Forest were acts of pietas but S. Cunningham to set that frame and then tests it by a readnot very satisfactory in terms of advanc- ing of the major works in the Teresian coring our understanding of Merton...
...Darden, IN Rev...
...Ronald J. Boccieri, M.M., NY Rev...
...Msgr...
...Daniel J. Collins, Japan Mrs...
...Samuel V. Merrick, NJ Rev...
...Joseph Alves, MA George D. Cody, NJ Thomas A. Landers, NY Thomas Baker and Suzanne McSorley, NJ Rev...
...Edward P. Hogan, NY Thomas J. Kucera, IL Dr...
...GRAYMOOR, P.O...
...Charles A. Buswell, CO Dr...
...I have kept this far from believing they have all the ansuit of poverty...
...and Mrs...
...John D. LaBelle, CT Most Rev...
...David Toolan, S.J., NY Ron Nahser, IL Joseph J. Roach, NY Rev...
...Gertrude of Helfta and Flannery one who has seriously thought about the O'Connor and...
...The unexamined life is not worth livthese sixth- and seventh-century accounts...
...John J. Bumstead, CT Rev...
...These women came from book on my desk and rewarded myself swers, have only one answer, Christthe aristocratic classes and found their vo- with a brief reading after completing the and who believe that this is an answer cation as nuns and abbesses of monas- more mundane tasks that take up my which makes everything else uncertain...
...is "owed" to the Nazis...
...John Manahan, S.M., TX Larry John Bongort, CA Mr...
...and Mrs...
...Gerry Jones, WA Francis R. Lewis, NJ Robert J. Griffin, WI Sandra Poysa and Jim Jordan, CA Rose Mary Lewis, NY William B. Grogan, NY Dr...
...Thomas J. Jonas, MN James and Ruth Shannon, MN City/State/Zip Daniel and Mary Kane, OH Sargent Shriver, DC Phone ( ) Patrick J. Keating, OH Mr...
...When the patroness of Paris, would be little Ellsberg has selected from her columns, that happens, the people who bear the brunt known to most people who are not schol- essays (some first appeared in this mag- of it have to find a solution or endure, as ars of the period...
...Aldo J. Tos, NY UM-1 Box 78 Arthur D. Kelso, Jr., DC, R.I.P...
...and Mrs...
...ings or vice versa...
...Philips, NM James Sheridan, SC Silvia B. Zimmerman, DC Judge Horace O. Pierotti, TN Dr...
...women can't get institutionalitis...
...S. J. Eye, IL Rosemary D. Arnett, MI Norman Chonacky, WA Rev...
...This allows him to in- As late as the beginning of this centuTestament and a distaste for Judaism, clude a figure like Gerard Manley Hopkins ry scholars considered the vitae of early which was deep and visceral despite the who was not technically a theologian but Frankish female saints as fictions gussied fact that she was Jewish...
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