Critics' choices for Christmas
Nilson, Jon
Jon Nilson Jon Nilson is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago. He specializes in ecumenical theology and contemporary Catholicism. W hen I told a friend that I had ...
...The war's personal legacies are still powerful, too...
...Susan A. Ross's office is only two doors away from mine here at Loyola...
...Jim Fox had read Price's own account of his struggle with the disease and so he wrote to ask the questions that are the book's subtitle...
...In this story about the meeting of two men, the older a priest of the Church of Ireland, the younger a Roman Catholic priest, Trevor unfolds the pathos of their ministry in a newly secularized land and the plight of their churches in the twilight of Christendom...
...Doctorate and evidence of successful teaching preferred...
...Of the Cloth" (New Yorker, March 9,1998) first introduced Trevor to me...
...Ross's feminist perspective is not bounded by the issue of ordaining women and the injustices of patriarchy, crucial as these controversies are...
...eighty-five in all, near my reading lamp...
...A church's position is, among other things, a statement of its identity...
...Along his way he met folks that he won't soon forget...
...After all, your reading is pretty eclectic...
...Here is yet another arena, it seems, where the meaning and future of that "conversation" with the world, which Vatican II promised and undertook more than thirty years ago, are still contested...
...15 percent, 12 times...
...Having fully faced suffering's horrible darkness, Price gives us the light we need to get through our trials more faithfully...
...The result is a text that shows God's reply to Job to be satisfactory and displays Dante's wisdom: "In His will is our peace...
...But you be the judge...
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...Over coffee (in tin cups, of course) he met some Civil War "reenactors...
...Instead, it reaches out to uncover the poverty and distortions of our traditional sacramental theology...
...brings a sociological perspective to that much-debated question...
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...To Price, a lean and precise prose is warrant for the truthfulness of its claims...
...Thus, Chaves helps Roman Catholics grasp the broader parameters of the debate...
...Advance payment required...
...Send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three letters of professional recommendation to: Robert Smith, F.S.C., Ph.D., Saint Mary's University, 700 Terrace Heights #46, Winona MN 55987-1399...
...New Video WOMEN IN THE WINDS OF CHANGE Conversations with 26 prominent women about equality and justice...
...The meeting sent him on a journey into worlds where that war is not quite over...
...in Pastoral Ministries...
...Chaves had a hunch that a particular church's policy on ordination was driven more by external pressures than by internal principles, doctrinal or theological...
...ALL TYPES...
...Scribner, $20,112 pp...
...In crafting his response, Price draws on many sources...
...Commonweal 30 December 3,1999...
...Manuscripts Wanted MANUSCRIPTS WANTED...
...The Confederate flag can be anything from a truck ornament to an icon of resistance to Big Brother in Washington, D.C...
...Yet Trevor incises them permanently in our imagination and memory...
...In the debates within American denominations over the last hundred years, Chaves found that a church's desire to maintain a certain stance vis-a-vis the "world" often weighed more than its doctrine...
...Applications will be reviewed beginning January 3,2000 until a suitable candidate is found...
...Doctorate required, ABD candidates will be considered...
...www.smumn.edu Theology Professor TRINITY COLLEGE, IN WASHINGTON, D.C, announces a tenure track position in the Theology Program for a religion scholar with a strong interdisciplinary background and familiarity with the Catholic tradition to teach undergraduate courses such as "Religion and Culture," "Religion and Politics," "African-American Religion Experience," "Religion and Sciences," and "Religion and the Media...
...instead, just ordinary people making their way through their ordinary lives...
...We've survived for too long on saltines and tap water...
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...There are few dramatic events in Trevor's fiction...
...Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Books, $14,406 pp...
...His own spare, honest, and courageous language is certainly compelling...
...AA/EOE...
...10 percent, 6 times...
...For more information, contact Bridget Mary Meehan at 703-379-2487 or e-mail sofiabmm@aol.com Assistant Professorship SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA announces a one-year renewable position as Assistant Professor of Moral Theology to begin August 15, 2000...
...Eclectic...
...was prompted by a letter to Price from a medical student fighting a virulent, terminal cancer...
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...CLASSIFIED RATES: $1.10 per word...
...To apply, please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three professional references by February 1,2000 to Trinity College, Carole King, Director of Human Resources, Trinity College, 125 Michigan Ave...
...When my week's schedule is too tight for a novel, I often turn to a short story by William Trevor...
...If other sacramental theologians pursue her suggestions, we may yet feast on the full banquet of the liturgy...
...Denying ordination to Commonweal 29 December 3,1999 women is a declaration: "This church will not take its marching orders from modernity and its notions of equality...
...12-word minimum...
...Mark Chaves's Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (Harvard University Press, $16.95, 249 pp...
...I never feel shortchanged...
...Trinity College is an EEO employer and welcomes applications from women and minorities...
...Reynolds Price's Letter to a Man in the Fire: Does God Exist and Does He Care...
...At just over twenty cents apiece, this must be one of the best retail bargains in fiction...
...In the realm described by Horwitz the Confederacy's symbols are still prevalent, though very plastic...
...really began on the morning Tony Horwitz woke up to the sound of musket fire and the sight of "Confederates" sprawled in the yard of his Virginia home...
...So it was friendship, not curiosity or interest, that led me to her Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology (Continuum, $24.95,224 pp...
...Neither will you...
...Now I keep Trevor's The Collected Stories (Penguin Books, $19.95,1,261 pp...
...Ross invites us to imagine new possibilities for communal worship that would open us more fully to God's "extravagant affections...
...In addition to teaching four undergraduate courses per semester (12 hours, 2-3 preparations) in theology, ministry, and the liberal arts, opportunities exist in Saint Mary's Institute for Pastoral Ministries that awards the M.A...
...At the center of his thinking, however, stands the crucified Jesus, whose faith in Abba points to a mode of divine fatherhood that far transcends our childish hopes and expectations of fathers...
...Yet Horwitz is not a somber companion, but a thoughtful, generous, and funny one...
...Every word has been refined in the fire of his own suffering and doubts...
...email: humanresources® trinitydc.edu...
...Thorough appreciation of Roman Catholic theological and magisterial traditions and practices, and demonstrated competence in liberal arts are required...
...This encounter energized his fascination with what some call the "War Between the States" and others the "War of Northern Aggression...
...W hen I told a friend that I had been assigned to write Christmas book recommendations for Commonweal, he said, "Thaf s good...
...However, I was soon caught up in her accounts of the pain, confusion, and struggles of ordinary Christians, male and female, and in her claim that the hopes of these "ordinary" Christians constitute a demand for renewal in our sacramental theology and practice...
...Discounts 5 percent, 3 times...
...That does sound better than "slipshod and undisciplined...
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...The notion that we Americans are not like other nations, burdened by bloodsoaked memories, is a Yankee delusion...
Vol. 126 • December 1999 • No. 21
