Poetry
Gross, Pamela
some citations from Vatican II and utterances of the recent pon- been dialectically linked with liberation theology's emphasis tiffs, no theologian after John Henry Newman ever gets cited; ...
...thinker is cited (the ecumenical character of this volume is thin) There is no evidence that contemporary biblical criticism has and from the older theological tradition there are exactly fif- made any impact on the catechism's formulation...
...By and large, the Bible tends to get used either in a sapiential manner after the fashion of the liturgy (not in itself a bad thing) or in the manner of a proof text...
...it sad that the catechism provides no consolation to the divorced A hununingbird's buzz raddles and remarried beyond telling them to be faithful to the church the dense wickerwork...
...One al senses...
...Curiously, the catechism recflanking [lie trail's start might already ognizes that the Holy Women were the first witnesses to the have struck their matchstick stems Resurrection (#640) but explains in the next paragraph (#641) against flint...
...No Protestant community gathered to celebrate Word and Sacrament...
...of maple...
...The general tone of the catechism is one of serene security...
...This is most definitely a work of the teaching church (ecclesia docens) with scant attention to the learning church (ecclesia discens...
...There is no mention in the catechism, even in small print, of Headhigh thickets of salmonberry deaconesses in the early church...
...his breastplate while denying them access to the Communion rail...
...Leaflets flare...
...1f' we are lucky, a burning Only twice in the entire catechism is there-in small print obthat manages also to servations (#853 and #2298)-any admission of human failsalve, to heal...
...The section on the Bible opens way of thinking theologically...
...but the specifics of the section We have wished for something like this on morality will cause, I suspect, some vigorous comment among to happen to us...
...More In fairness, the opening section on ethics, with the strong forsuggestion than color, as if echo mulation on Christian personalism (the hand of John Paul II is dared to anticipate its word...
...Little appeal is made either to human expe10: 12 March 1993 Commonweal...
...The discusteen allusions to the contributions of women writers or saints...
...Febrile...
...new" sins, so played up in the popular press) but much space this green glaze on shoulder, crown for law and command...
...Only lay men can advance to the permanent state for the match to be struck-so strong, of lector and reader (#903...
...that the male witnesses "remain the foundation stone of the the closest green can ever come to church" without alluding to the Holy Women who were the first flame, and every visible inhabitant proclaimers of the Risen Lord...
...I found seethe of skunk cabbages' oiled lamps...
...In general, blinking the Siav Back 1 the whole orientation of the section on morality has little room Gorget's char, roused to an orange-red for, or pays little attention to, human experience (despite the coal, dims then fans again...
...That should the Gospels that does some justice to the mysteries of Christ come as no surprise since such a document should be conser- as it unfolds in the liturgical year but none to biblical insights vative but it does, pace its apologists, represent a very definite produced in the last half century...
...The catechism's to the Bible...
...I missed any citation, for example, of Pius XII's encyclical on biblical renewal, the 1943 Divino afflante spiritu...
...near its tlashpoint: Blaze The section on ethics is predictable on the issues of aborof the Audubon warbler's raised yellow jack: tion, contraception, etc., but that comes as no surprise...
...the moralists...
...hermeneutics and no reference to the revival of biblical studHow much richer those great themes would have been had they ies in the modern world...
...petal, leaf...
...justice and human community...
...It reflects the kind of theology with an emphasis on the traditional primacy of the literal sense that emanates from the circle of writers connected to Communio and goes on to talk about the equally traditional three spirituand is very unlike that found in the pages of Concilium...
...we imagine an odor al' sulphur...
...repeating the Code of Canon Law...
...all over this section) is quite good, as are the sections on social Blade, bud, sepal...
...Habit...
...released from its winterdrab...
...That exposition of the way to read Scripture is halsenses echoes of the theological approach of the late Hans Urs lowed in the tradition but unmindful of more nuanced approaches von Balthasar and, not, say, of Karl Rahner...
...in fact, the distinction is not directly acknowledged...
...on the solidarity of Jesus with the poor, with the liberating theme not even those who like De Lubac, Congar, Rahner, now enjoy of Mary's Magnificat, and the transforming power of the local something like canonical status in the tradition...
...There is no extended acknowedgment of biblical approach to Christology, mariology, and ecclesiology is "high...
...some citations from Vatican II and utterances of the recent pon- been dialectically linked with liberation theology's emphasis tiffs, no theologian after John Henry Newman ever gets cited...
...The anthropology of the catechism is not always a comfortPamela Gross able admixture of personalism and hierarchy.The role of women At the March Equinox in the church marks little advance beyond Kiiche, Kinder, and Kirche: no female servers at the altar, please, and only men in A sense of waiting-as if the priesthood...
...sion of the life of Christ, for instance, relies on a harmony of The theology of the catechism is conservative...
...alder...
...ings in the church...
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