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...Born into a cultured French family (his father, a sculptor, was a contemporary of Rodin), Massignon made a brilliant career which led to a chair at the College de France as a result of his epochal study of the Muslim mystic 'Al Hallaj and his crucial work on the vocabulary of Islamic mysticism...
...Diogenes Allen, a philosophical theologian at Princeton Seminary, is well known as an interpreter of, among others, Simone Weil, Soren Kierkegaard, and Ludwig Wittgenstein...
...This is not a book on how to say the Jesus Prayer or how to pray before icons or how to comport oneself at the liturgy...
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...Depictions of the Virgin tend to be more "fleshly"and detailed than thloseof Christ since the former is the guarantor of the Incarnation while the latter subject must conform to the binary condition of divinity/humanity...
...Anyone who has more than a passing interest in icons (like myself) will find Maguire s book extremely helpful...
...The wide-eyed Christsof Byzantine mosaics, for instance, may well represent Christ's "eve of justice," which was thought a powerful antidote to ancient envy transmitted by the "evil eye...
...The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium by Henry- Maguire Princeton Urnzvr.xlu Prt...
...That discussion led some (even the redoubtable Reginald GarrigouLaGrange) to rethink, long before Vatican II, not only the meaning of mystical experience but the whole issue of grace and the grace-filled experience of God outside the boundaries of the church or even Christianity...
...More to the point, Allen, citing John Calvin, argues that we may be justified in Christ through faith but then comes the issue of sanctification: How do we become holy, free ourselves from evil, and grow in charity...
...Massignon married his distant cousin, raised a family, and, with Vatican permission, was eventually ordained a priest in the Melkite rite...
...A wrenching personal and moral crisis and a near suicide led him to a religious conversion in 1908...
...By dint of his own tenacity and native wit, he not only acquired an excellent humanist education (with the three obligatory languages of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew), but skill as a printer in a town famous for Renaissance printers such as Frobenius...
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...Figures, once their traits entered the tradition, became a standard from which there was little deviation: the beard of Saint Nicholas was always long and the skin tone of John Chrysostom always reflected a certain pallor...
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...Taking the autobiographical writings of two generations (father and son) of a Swiss family and using his own unparalleled knowledge of European social history, he has produced a remarkable and highly reliable social history...
...In that sense, as Gude shows, Massignon anticipated by decades and helped to bring about the more fruitful contemplative contacts that occur today...
...Books by Evangelicals (Mulholland), Lutherans (Hanson), Anglicans (Leech,), Orthodox (Louth, Ware) as well as a spectrum of Roman Catholics all concur on this...
...He had a deep thirst for true "hospitality" among religious believers...
...Ferris that I have never been accused of academic jealousy...
...Praying with Icons by Jim Forest Orbis, $16,171 pp...
...4. I impugned not the motives of the members of the Jesus Seminar but the soundness of some of their methods and the quality of some of their recent publications...
...After all, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, John Cassian, John Climacus, et al are now available in the Paulist Press's Classics of Western Spirituality series, and many fine books have appeared to which Maloney never averts...
...Spiritual Theology is an attempt to put together a synthetic view of theology that does justice to both Christian reflection and Christian practice...
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...Maguire's volume is filled with useful observations that have helped me understand Byzantine art in a new way...
...My hope is that interest in this crucial figure and his circle in twentieth-century Catholicism will be encouraged by this work...
...A glossary of terms is provided...
...In addition to theological studies with a distinguished faculty, the M.Div...
...The book ends with a fine discussion of the Holy Spirit which avoids parsing controversial issues too finely (for example, on the divine energies...
...Father Maloney, a prolific writer on the Christian East, gives us a popular overview of that distinctive spirituality...
...One curious thing about Maloney's volume is that his footnotes and bibliography make no reference to recent translations of some of the classic authors he discusses...
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...Anyone with those interests would of necessity be concerned with deep religious experience...
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...Forest does provide a list of places both in the United States and abroad (he lives in the Netherlands) where one might obtain icons and/or their reproductions, but it is a highly selective list...
...Although the breakdown of the book is not done in a mechanical fashion, there is a kind of Trinitarian character to the twelve chapters...
...Spiritual Theology by Diogenes Allen Cowley, $11.95,169 pp...
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...To that list we should add this tightly argued, eminently readable volume from a theologian who represents the classical Reformed tradition...
...Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh: An Introduction to Eastern Christian Spirituality by George A. Maloney Crossroad, $16.95,178 pp...
...6. Less than a week after the essay appeared, I got a long e-mail letter from a friend, an early, active member of the Jesus Seminar who is now a re (Continued on page 30) Commonweal 29 September 26,1997...
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...What Gude does not discuss in any detail is Massignon's impact on other areas of Catholic theology...
...5. A "conscious and moneyed conspiracy" is an exaggerated interpretation of what I suggested the Seminar is...
...The Beggar & the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie University of Chicago, $29.95, 407 pp...
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...Platter's son, Felix (born 1536), went to Montpellier in France as a young man to study medicine (and kept a journal of his travels...
...There are a number of color plates...
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...This is a serious flaw in an otherwise serviceable volume and makes one wonder whether the author is recycling some older material...
...With his friend Mary Kalil, the Cairene Christian, he held together for years an association of Christians and Muslims (the Badaliya-a sodality of prayer) that sought deep unity between these two faiths...
...Forest's book, by contrast, is very much a popular introduction combining his own spiritual vision as a convert to Russian Orthodoxy, his use of icons in his family's devotional life, a short history of the development of icons in the Christian tradition, and, in separate chapters, the main iconographical themes of the various kinds of icons...
...Platter himself printed the first edition of John Calvin's Institutes (1536) and a few years later met the future leader of Geneva for a discussion of its contents...
...This bare-bones account of the Platters is only a skeleton upon which Ladurie hangs wonderful discussions of the age of humanism, the conditions of towns and cities in sixteenth-century France and Switzerland (Paris had, according to Felix, 1,100 tennis courts...
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...His essays in the twenties and thirties on Muslim mystics such as 'Al Hallaj and different Sufis showed the Catholic world that deep mystical experience ("infused contemplation") was available outside the Catholic context...
...This is not a genteel, nostalgic plea for a return to elm-arched life in the small town, but a prophetic call to "turn and be saved...
...A chapter on agriculture seems unexpected, but the farmer to whom we are introduced, Steve Gilman, is so engaging and Kunstter's argument about the peril into which agribusiness and imprudent urbanization have thrown farming so important, that we indulge him this wander...
...Upon his return to Basel, Felix embarked on a splendid career as a professor of medicine...
...Rather, it sets out the main thematic lines of Eastern theology...
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...His commitment to scholarship and its dissemination did not stop him from also investing in land, homes, and farms...
...Has anyone thought, for instance, about publishing an English edition of the correspondence between Massignon and de Foucauld, two great mystical figures of the Christian-Muslim encounter...
...He shares with the interested reader the fruits of his own encounter with classic Christian spiritual theology, both Eastern and Western...
...2. Relatively few lines of my piece dealt directly with the Jesus Seminar...
...I'm only sorry that the author did not create some schematics to summarize the standard traits which he discusses...
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...Thomas Platter (born 1499) left his peasant home to wander Europe, barefoot and poor, until he finally settled in Basel...
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...Yet their faith is better fed by historically informed faith than by history alone, and by sober truth more than by fanciful learning...
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...To "undermine the fragile faith of believers" is an unnecessary putdown of Christian believers...
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...Thelate Ernst Benr-once wrote that to understand icons is to under stand Orthodoxy...
...One of the more striking facts about the contemporary theological scene is the convergence among authors of various Christian traditions who argue for a coherent, serious, theologically based, and experiential spirituality...
...1. I did not ask my readers for forbearance but advised them that my essay (like every theologian's) was neither undebatable nor complete...
...o Lawrence S. Cunningham teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame...
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...Even if they should be peevish, it is hard to believe that they made the whole essay peevish, or that they reduced it to a "merciless castigation" of the Jesus Seminar...
...Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion by Mary Louise Gude University of Notre Dame Press, $34.95, 283 pp...
...He B Christopher Thomas teaches in the Departnzeiit o f Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia...
...This colorful story, told clearly and crisply by Gude, lays bare an oddly sad life given to scholarship, deep, almost mystical piety, a search for peace (he was a devoted follower of Gandhi), and The Graduate Program in Ministry at the University of Notre Dame The Master of Divinity program at Notre Dame is a threeyear, academic and professional course of study designed to prepare students for effective ministry in the Roman Catholic Church...
...He was an intimate friend of Charles de Foucauld but resisted the temptation to join him in the ascetic life...
...He maintained a private museum filled with books, a herbarium, seeds, stuffed crocodiles, antiquities, artifacts from the new world, and a "live elk which kept the lawns mowed...
...This is not a hook introducing Byzantine art...
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...If I am less sanguine than Kunstler about the ability and determination of private initiative and enterprise, ungoaded, to bring us back from the brink, I read the book as an appeal for a new consciousness of cities and the environments they anchor...
...Maloney begins with the Trinity as a source of both community and creation and then follows with chapters on apophatic and logos mysticism, the ascetic life, and separate chapters on Christ, Mary, and icons...
...Although Allen, true child of the Reformation, may be a bit gun-shy about ecstatic contemplation, he nonetheless argues, with some insistence, that one can arrive at a sense of the habitual presence of God in our ordinary lives...
...RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence So Cunningham vzantine icons tend to be muse many viewers...
...Louis Massignon (1883-1962) was one of the premier Arabists of this century...
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...A bibliography and an index would have been helpful...
...It is a readable scholarly work that could also serve as a reference text...
...Despite this seemingly alien style, many people find a luminousbeau ty in these figures which are so central to the religious experience of the Chris tian East...
...One way to describe Forest's rather wide-ranging book is to say that it is about the spirituality of icons...
...A complete menu for the wedding feast of Felix and his bride, a true gastronomic extravaganza, allows the author to create a schema to describe the wedding meals and compare them to the sumptuary laws of the day...
...In a time when Arab countries in general and Muslims in particular are stereotyped and reviled both here and abroad, it is refreshing and hopeful to have a portrait in English of this saintly bridge builder, scholar, and mystic...
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...In the Christian East there is not only a theology of icons but a theological tradition which can be expressed in icons...
...Praying with Icons is a very readable book by a wellknown peace activist and writer on spirituality...
...This emphasis is enhanced by an appendix reproducing Byzantine prayers used in the morning and evening...
...Home from Nowhere has ethical implications that ought to engage readers...
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...One can read Ladurie purely to become informed about sixteenth-century European life, especially the interplay of religious strife and humanism...
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...The result is an intriguing story played out against the great events of the Renaissance and the Reformation...
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...Massignon was a complex man...
...To the Western eye they seem stv Iistically to look very much alike: hieratic, static, stiff figuresagainst gold backgrounds with very little nat ural context...
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...That conversion, detested by his anticlerical father, put him in close contact with the most productive Catholic intellectuals in France and abroad...
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...Gude's biography is studded with names familiar to those who know that scene: Ernest Psichari, Gabriel Marcel, Paul Claudel, Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Lanza del Vasto, Thomas Merton, and a series of popes from Pius XI on...
...22 y,f, This desire to paint the lives of the saints according to their spiritual duties (Maguire is excellent in correlating art with the written sources of Byzantine hagiography) was so engrained in the Byzantine tradition that when a fifteenthcenturv Greek visited Florence and went into a Latin church, he could not make heads or tails of the art because his eve was so otherwise trained...
...In four well-written chapters (enhanced by 163 halftone illustrations) Maguire shows how the icon painter uses a visual language to distinguish "types" of, say, saints according to their spiritual task: ascetics are thin and angular to represent their desire for the nearly immaterial existence of the contemplative life (the so-called "angelic life") while soldier-saints are moreanimated and robust...
...He also has a fine chapter on icon making (or, as is often said in the East, the "writing" of icons), using a detailed description of one famous monk, the contemporary iconographer, Father Zinon of the monastery of the Caves in Russia...
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...Gude rightly notes that Massignon made possible the irenic tone taken by Vatican II's Nostra aetate toward the Muslims...
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...Although a proponent of France's "civilizing mission" in its colonies (for which he earned the ire of Edward Said as just another "Orientalist" ), Massignori s mature years put him at odds with both the French policy in Algeria in the 1950s and the birth of the Jewish state (like Judah Magnes and Martin Buber, he hoped for a binational state) for which he suffered the unwarranted charge of anti-Semitism...
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...menus at inns, public executions, the tensions between Catholics and Protestants, farming, trade, the theory and practice of medicine (appalling by our standards), and city planning...
...In a book billed as an introduction to such resources, a greater effort should have been made to alert readers to the wealth of material available...
...it is rather a book for those who have been introduced to such art and who wish to get deeper into its aesthetic and theology...
...In eleven compact chapters, Allen attempts to set out answers to those and ancillary questions...
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...He also found time to teach and, with the aid of his wife, run a hostel for students...
...Ample notes, a bibliography, and an index make it all the Corernwnwcal 24 srtrteinber26, 1997 Bernard L. Marthaler, OFMConv...
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...That sense of God's presence becomes available to us through the "stages" of spiritual journeying set out by the great spiritual masters/ mistresses of the tradition...
...Ladurie has written a book which could be read as a historical novel...
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