Thrones and Dominations
Bartelme, Elizabeth
back on itself this way, but the story floats away as quickly as the balloon which set Joe Rose's ordeal in motion, and the current carrying it is plot. The ideas trying to anchor that plot drop...
...i-([.l1:11 ~11:11.1 '..If.ll ~ _9 .11 ~" E-(I I (Continued from page 4) tims of the notorious rappres~glia are buried...
...Her additions, however, are cogent and very much in the Sayers manner, including enough quotations to warrant a new Bartlett's edition...
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...PHILLIP WINDOLPH Burbank, IlL Theology in decline The remarks of Avery Dulles on the present state of the CTSA are right on target...
...Elizabeth Bartelme, a long-time Commonweal contributor, lives in New York...
...In these books Sayers was in top form so perhaps a fair comparison cannot be made with this new/old work...
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...and Bunter, Lord Peter's faithful valet, backs up his master...
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...LORD PETER HARRIET Elizabeth Bartelme ong ago (or so it seems) I approached Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night as one might open the Iliad...
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...The ideas trying to anchor that plot drop one by one to the ground...
...Harriet Vane, the unlikely sleuth, now married to Lord Peter, continues to write her detective stories, but she worries about their value, about their moral worth...
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...Some of its most disturbing suggestions (this is not the first time McEwan has used homosexual desire as his central threat) are never fully explored...
...A winning ethnographic portrait of 28 American Catholic priests...
...no interpretations are deemed scholarly unless they stem from a hermeneutic of suspicion...
...Sayers's wit and her way with eccentric characters have full play here, as Harriet makes her way through a thicket of snobbish in-laws and new acquaintances...
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...Lord Peter confers with his brother-in-law, Chief Inspector Charles Parker...
...Nevertheless, if not one of her peak performances, Thrones has a high entertainment quotient, and its probing exploration of various concerns of Sayers raise it to the level of a serious literary work...
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...One of the latter is the beautiful Rosamund Harwell, half of the most romantic couple in London...
...a reverence for tradition is seen as wooden-headed...
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...My favorite scene, however, is Lord Peter, working for the Foreign Office and flying off to France in a Piper Cub to get important papers from the negligent king...
...among them were three Catholic priests...
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...Jill Paton Walsh has taken all these elements and stitched together Dorothy Sayers's work with her own contribution to make a coherent whole...
...After all, societies come and go...
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...After reading both critiques, with no further information on the proceedings of the convention, I must admit that Avery Dulles was much less convincing in his arguments than was Mary Ann Donovan...
...Valerie Sayers is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame...
...The discipline traditionally called theology is rapidly being replaced by religious studies...
...Lovely Rosamund, while spending a weekend in the country alone, is found dead by her distraught husband...
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...This is not to say that Enduring Love is not engaging throughout--it is more than engaging, it is clever and compelling-but rather that it is considerably lightened at the end of its journey, that its balance tips, finally, toward the pleasures of unburdened plot...
...Peter reassures her, telling her that they represent a "dream of justice, an ideal that had to be kept alive in a very unjust and dangerous world . . . . " So Harriet must "make murder most "Essential for though ul Catholics...
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...Catholic academic institutions are reflecting on their Catholic identity...
...CTSA's authority With regard to the Dulles-DonovanSteinfels disputation on "How Catholic is the CTSA...
...Inevitably the two women clash and Harriet comes down strongly on the side of the independent, educated woman--the one who can earn her own living, if necessary, and who does not need a man simply to lean on...
...Harriet takes charge here and works out a pragmatic solution that suits all parties, thus providing a happy and romantic ending in which the murderer, now confined to a cell, exonerates Rosamund from any wrongdoing...
...Kunkel writes as a Catholic seeking to understand the tumultuous changes of the post-Vatican II Church...
...I failed to read it...
...This is what makes the observation of Dulles so important...
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...He based these short chapters on extensive interviews w4th dozens of priests, and the diversity represented here offers a valuable window on the changing face of the Catholic Church...
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...Thrones and Dominations, Sayers's unfinished novel, completed by Jill Paton Walsh (Knowledge of Angels), sent me back not only to Gaudy Night, but to The Nine Tailors, surely the most imaginative mystery novel of the twentieth century...
...Avery Dulles seems to refer to his "opponents'" attitudes and personalities rather than to the actual words used to express their ideas...
...the scriptural canon is roundly ignored in favor of extracanonical norms which are used to judge the scriptural canon...
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...The result is seamless, if slightly sentimental, owing to the affectionate exchanges between the newly married Harriet and Peter...
...Other potential murderers are equally mum...
...There can be no apology without honesty...
...A master's degree is required...
...At this point the entire Wimsey household goes into action...
...Commonweal 2 6 May8, 1998 foul--the victim real--and pitiful...
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...These themes inform the novel, giving a clear picture of Sayers's preoccupations...
...Adjectives and adverbs used with the quotes (sarcastically, sharply, castigated, idiosyncratic, etc...
...Simpson at his side, and all of London dressed in black...
...Sayers's hero, Lord Peter Wimsey, appeared precious beyond reason, and his love-interest Harriet Vane's problems hardly worth solving...
...Sayers has used the latter effectively to forward her plot...
...With economy and sensitivity, Kunkel brings these priests to life, portraying them as both fully human and a breed apart...
...If the answer is yes, the overriding issue underlying the Dulles artide concerns the very nature of that theology--the long-time, manyfaceted activity, in the church and at the service of the church, called faith in search of intelligence...
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...And why is Father Principe surprised at their level of expertise, not only in religion but in history and education...
...Mary Ann Donovan, on the other hand, quotes the authors' exact words about important thoughts rather than personal feelings...
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...The solution, as one might guess, is not the expected one and as offbeat as any dreamed up in the past by this clever puzzler...
...Harriet is willing, but she faces strong opposition from the Duchess of Denver, Peter's sister-in-law, who wants her to get busy and provide an heir and stop this nonsense about writing...
...Obviously, an important aspect of such identity is located in the theology departments...
...refer to personality traits rather than ideas...
...Bunter is stuck with diligently scrubbing Peter until he is fit for human companionship again...
...The fog, we are told, streams away from the little plane like steam streaming from a kettle...
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...The story ends with the notion of forgiveness, but it's a partial resolution, for poor Jed Parry is locked away with his delusions, and neither narrator nor narrative is concerned with what forgiveness or peace might be offered him...
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...As he writes, "things are different now," but maybe one thing that is not different is an unconscious attitude toward lay people that has not changed at all...
...But the table in the cottage is set for two and Rosamund herself is found in bed...
...I would not mind this shift if it were just a question of the CTSA...
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...Bunter has fallen in love with an attractive young photographer, but they have decided to give up one another in the interests of Lord Peter who can't manage without Bunter...
...It is not infrequent to meet a teacher of theology who questions the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as revelation of God and who is teaching our high school graduates, not well-trained in catechetics, to rethink traditional claims in the context of the religions of the world...
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...The suspects, a playwright madly in love with her, and an artist who has been painting her portrait, have each followed her to her cottage, but neither will admit knowledge of her death...
...The University is identified and driven by the central tenets of its mission: teaching, faith, and service...
...They are further underlined by the setting of the story in Lord Peter's London townhouse and the various clubs and restaurants frequented by the upper classes...
...the critical role of theology, while well-preserved, is no longer directed toward members of the CTSA and their offerings but toward the pope and bishops...
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...Harriet works out theories, while her maid, Mango, goes hunting clues...
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