Problems Unique to the Holocaust edited by Harry James Cargas Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. RELIGION BOOKS
Khan, associate dean of Portland's School ly. There, sensitivity to necessary trade- Wind, Henry Drummond looks up from of Engineering. "According to the Islamic offs and constituency...
...his terms as he goes, Scharper examines numerous concepts...
...His product of an all-powerful deity, is con- best-known book, Reflections of a Postsidered in another chapter...
...WILLIAM SCOTT GREEN, EDITOR who reflect traditional Catholic val- This invaluable re€erenec-defines eoncepts• religious practices, theolagi:al ter•r.n...
...religious...
...Approximately 6,550 of the 7,600 camps really suicides or Nazi murders...
...In the sevthe awe inspired by nature's grandeur Memorial Center in Jerusalem, Cargas enth century the church even forbade with concern for the effects of environ- was the logical choice...
...discrepancies...
...on urban sprawl, sustainable development, and geoned since the 1970s...
...If there is a single word that marks Car- and religion argue in various ways that Cargas was famous for his rigorous gas's work, it is "moving...
...Notre Dame, IN 46556 The ashes marking our foreheads on (219) 631-5550 that day serve as a paradoxical remembrance of a future event, our death...
...Sister Mary Louise Gude, C.S.C...
...In- biology reveals a colossal waste of reLaw School in Valparaiso, Indiana...
...I am convinced that our so- DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM IN THE BIBLICAL PERIOD ciety needs the perspective of those JACOB NEUSNER, EDITOR IN CHIEF...
...cerns...
...Within its undergraduate residence halls, the University David Patterson replies: "Any moral strives to create communities of faith and learning that serve as judgment of the actions undertaken by catalysts for the integration of students' intellectual, spiritual and inmates of the Nazi death camps must social development...
...pe:surisplaces• and essential vocabulary from [he writings of Judaism, ranging from the u m e of the ues...
...Over 3-300 entries ligent and modern" should not pre- by seventy• in tern arionat scholars offer historical- literary...
...They share a philo- the critical eye of historical scholarship He outlines the nature of historical inquiry, gives a brief history of how scholars have understood Jesus...
...F-1 tion) are at least in principle sufficient that organisms are far from the wellto explain all aspects of life...
...He writes frequently logical crisis-a literature which has bur- becomes increasingly pragmatic...
...ters...
...philosophers, scholars of art, literature, 1394, and from Spain in 1492...
...Thinking Ecologically, Reand ethical reasoning concerning the pro- mentable solutions...
...When aligned itself with emperors who reters, avoids concise definition but at least he sought a Catholic to serve on this moved from Roman law the very exsuggests attributes of a constructive di- commission, he found a good one in the emptions for Jews that had enabled early alogue dealing with the environment...
...Such discussion is by trees planted in his name now grow out- saders drew first blood not in the "Holy its nature more absolute than the policy side Jerusalem in a parkland...
...That remembering enables us to prepare for the future by turning from a past that Commonweal 42 March 10, 2000 is sinful...
...Staring salary for the 2000-2001 year centuries-old venomous condemnations...
...But it can be read 316 Main Building in a single day...
...studvir.i re lif:nn 559.95 • ISBN t-56563-458.6 • HARDCOVER • ]1DIUCA • REEEREtiCE JOHN F. O'CONNOR Winchester, Mass...
...Where pregnancy was neither "a medical condition nor a blessing from God" but "a capital crime" in the death camps, can standard ethical University of Notre Dame reasoning on abortion be of much value...
...and identifies the essential issues sophical framework dating from the or, Fronrutg the reader nF the Nets Tesr.menr Cnsnel iccnunts of Jesus...
...the economic ap- deeming the Time, and All Creation Is tection of creation is practical ecumenism proach could easily shortchange future Groaning are companions of the same that seeds long-term global environ- needs in the press of immediate con- sort...
...However, like many commenta- Pail and the Promise o f Abraham tors on the evolution-creation issue, JOHN L. WHITE Haught is hampered by a very old- 'In ruin aniil!;r •sri: y SVhite proposes char Paul believed in a creator god Who starredspirituat treads wirlr.Abnthunt trod comicued with the resurrected Christ...
...Ten years ago he people to change even closed minds and of universal moral truths that one must urged the Vatican to open its archives hardened hearts...
...In recognition of Christians to consult with Jewish docmental degradation on the poorest and Cargas's prolific scholarly work (more tors, a teaching no Catholic would now most vulnerable...
...We tain aspects of the living world (in divine creation the very same facts will all miss his clarion voice stirring Behe's view, cellular biochemistry) that certain biologists cite as evidence our consciences and continuously urg- are so complex that no natural mech- for the ubiquitous working of natural ing us never to forget the events of the anism can account for their origin, selection...
...Liberation Auschwitz Christian (1989), is an open lettheology, with its preferential option for ter to Pope John Paul II written shortly the poor, is carefully described and ac- after the pope's meeting with Austrian knowledged by Scharper for its sizable Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr...
...In Shadows of Auschwitz suspend all judgment about the acts and on Pius XII to independent historians, a (1990), for example, he artfully selected omissions of its victims...
...Realistic asmuch better antidote for biased or shod- powerful images of the Shoah...
...Educating Neither is perfect: The moral approach strides, bag in hand, through the courtWestern students about the Korari s legal isn't likely to lead directly to imple- house door...
...cles) and his enormous service to im- nessed a new Christian attitude toward Both All Creation Is Groaning and Re- proving Jewish-Christian relations, the war: that it could be divinely inspired, deeming the Time emphasize the moral Jewish National Fund bestowed on him or at least papally commended, if not and ethical dimensions of the debate on its Tree of Life Award...
...the role of the human for political and economic progress are cred...
...late Harry James Cargas, who died in Christians to survive as a minority, free Scharper describes this political theolo- 1998...
...The Hebrew word for this is explain how the mechanism works...
...can hardly presume sity behavioral expectations...
...This philosophy views na- Available at your bookstore or caU toll-&ee: 800-358-3111 ture as a mechanism, and the goal of Outside the U.S.: 978-532-6546 • E-mail: orders@hemdrickson.com Fax: 978-531-8146 both scientist and philosopher is to Commonweal 4 3 March 10, 2000...
...and archaeological clude us from distinguishing between background for understanding the canonical form of she Bible• the texts of the Second Temple period, and the classical writings of rabbinic Judaism It has few rivals when it superficial religious practices and the comes to acntracy and readability, and it will be an indispensabe resource for anyone priceless values of our heritage...
...Dare we throw stones...
...If some Rectors hold part-time teaching positions or part-time one is moved to compassion, to suffer administrative assignments...
...He did so Problems Unique to the Holocaust is an centuries Christians expelled the Jews to preserve the memory of the Nazi des- anthology in which historians and from England in 1290, from France in ecration of human dignity...
...undergraduates live in 27 single-sex residence halls on campus...
...President Kurt Waldheim...
...As it happened, the Cruthe environment...
...were in dialogue with one another...
...The Gaia hypothesis, for example, regards the entire range of living matter on earth as constituting a A SCHOLAR'S LEGACY single living entity, capable of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs, and endowed with facul- links between Jews and Catholics...
...Are suicides in the death the Congregation of Holy Cross...
...People ties and powers far beyond those of its who didn't talk to one another spoke constituent parts...
...A master's degree is preferred...
...such judgments proved to be as poisonFor further information or to request an application, ous of Christianity as they were deplease contact: structive of their intended victims...
...His gen- sumptions in normal life became "optidy history than selective publication of tleness as a teacher shines through the ef- mistic, mistaken, fateful, and deadly" in some of the evidence...
...is pending final budget approval...
...Fortunately, choosing one per- shrug, he slaps the two books together, and responsible husband of all the crea- spective over the other is not necessary...
...Ash Wednesday would University of Notre Dame be a good time for Christians to do so...
...Yet, considered together, these Stephen Scharper's Redeeming the Time, varying perspectives on environmental Robert Jaquay is associate director of The briefly noted here, is a comprehensive progress positively affect one another- George Gund Foundation, a private philanreview of Christian writing on the eco- the economic isn't so ruthless, the moral thropy in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Five thousand commanded...
...CHARLES W. HEDRICK In fact, Behe and Dawkins have Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when studying the Jesus of faith with much in common...
...Semitism over the centuries...
...together with others, one cannot easily Starting salary for this nine-month position in 1999-2000 sit in judgment on them, let alone repeat was $27,338, plus benefits...
...Always identifi- fective, understated questions he poses the Nazi killing centers...
...stuffs them into his briefcase, then tures and world's resources...
...Not content effect on his thinking...
...Within this framework, than twenty books and scores of arti- take seriously...
...Both designed machines assumed by both Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr., a frequent sides assume an essentially determin- Behe and Dawkins...
...Such a call to remembering while the contrary view claims that However, what we are discovering remains the most effective guarantee natural mechanisms (natural selec- about biology at the molecular level is that it will never happen again...
...terestingly, "intelligent design" sources, a myriad of complex Rube CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 4) Although I have been annoyed by certain Catholic religious practices, I 1 ~ HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS have never been inclined to abandon my faith...
...This is no less true the molecular level, I found John F. For the world o€ Judaism and Jesus...
...Or what is one to make of parents who Residence Hall Rector "smothered their own babies whose cries otherwise would have revealed their seThe University of Notre Dame is a Catholic university founded by cret positions...
...The eleventh century witmorality is just as important as biology...
...the shift toward empathy that characThe position of Rector is a full-time, live-in position, although terized its editor's work as an ethicist...
...Enlightenment, which has little in • :ir[it:r ..:i- ":a .. • •...a-!: r .:among different enters common with the Christian philo- S16.95 • ISBN 1-56563-235-.t • PAP FA • BIBtivut Sn owc sophical tradition or with the Hebrew Scriptures...
...Process theology, with Harry Cargas, and his intimate inEve through which creation is viewed as a A Biography terviews with them enabled his readers constantly evolving reflection of an all- Pamela Norris to hear these scholars as though they loving God, rather than as a finished New York University Press, $35, 496 pp...
...He enabled the Shoah entailed so profound a collapse honesty as a historian...
...The Rector also acts as liaison to to peer into these souls under assault and other University Departments responsible for student welfare and make moral pronouncements upon the physical condition of the residence hall...
...For examly reviewed concepts and a refinement Holocaust Memorial Com- ple, in the fourth century the church of language that, unlike preceding chap- mission, he turned to Elie Wiesel...
...Holocaust...
...them...
...Those of us who have not seen the Together with a graduate student Assistant Rector and inside of the sealed trains, who have not undergraduate Seniors serving as Resident Assistants, the Rector been covered with the ashes of our motheducates, counsels, and accompanies students in the life of faith, ers and fathers and children raining and calls students to accountability in accordance with Univer- down from the sky...
...Our concern to be "hip and intel- Pentateuch's final formation until the close of the Babvlonian Talmud...
...Furnished living quarters In the case of Christian hatred for Jews, within the residence hall and a meal plan are provided...
...To dernansrrate his thesis fashioned view of evolutionary biolo- Whrte ns ludes extertsiusm discuss ran of the Greco-Roman ruler calr and its impact on the readers gy, essentially that of the premolecu- of Paul's betters...
...11 mental progress...
...to quarrel with the pope over a particuRedeeming the Time concludes with a when President Jimmy Carter lar incident, Cargas went for much highcall for a new "political theology"-a sought someone of the Jew- er stakes, cataloguing the church's antihighly abstract integration of previous- ish faith to chair the U.S...
...There, sensitivity to necessary trade- Wind, Henry Drummond looks up from of Engineering...
...asks Cargas...
...This position is held by tenuous position as judges in these matpriests, male and female religious, and committed lay people...
...expresutons• and experiences As a biologist studying evolution at stand at the heart o€ most religions in [he ancient Mediterranean world...
...champions like William Dembski adteshuvah...
...JESUS THE SEER Tire Progress of Prophecy BEN WITHERINGTON III Throwing dice Increasingly scholars are realizing that prophetic traditions...
...The University currently has positions open for Rectors in The essays in this book encapsulate men's and women's residence halls...
...According to the Islamic offs and constituency building sufficient his thoughts on the secular and the saway of thinking...
...as well as Paui himself Wit rtes asserrron .. will uridoubledly stimulate lar era in biology...
...The theistic approach holds that cer- duce as incontrovertible evidence of This book is Harry Cargas's last...
...When Israelis wanted a Catholic for the most part from the general duty gy of the environment as a program of to serve on the international advisory of emperor worship and from other conaction and reflection that seeks to unite board of the Yad Vashem Holocaust flicts with their consciences...
...The book is better read in small doses Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs to enable it to sink in...
...Rather, molecular contributor, is professor of law at Valparaiso istic, mechanistic view of nature...
...In subsequent but as a post-Auschwitz one...
...Withertngron looks at the broader expression o€ prophecy in its ancient Mediterranean conre.a[ in an attempt to better understand biblical Haught's comments on Darwinism prophecy in rh;!: evII as !itr hr p:lt-tu...
...With a resigned half-smile, halfrace on this planet is that of caretaker implicit...
...They did Commonweal 4 1 March 10, 2000 worse when they got to the city of peace, ably Catholic, Cargas preferred to de- for his readers as they confront visual evlocking its Jews into a synagogue and scribe himself not as a Roman Catholic, idence of atrocities...
...of Hurts and theology ["Evolution and God's $29-95 • ISBN 1.56553.344-x • Ci-on - BisllCAL Smoiss • PROPHECY Humility," January 28] of great inter- THE APOSTLE OF GOD est...
...Emeritus, ChicagcTheoiogical Setnmary view is perpetuated by popular writ- 524.95 • ISBN 1-56563-283-4 • CLOTH • New TisTAmEAT • THEOLOGY ers like Richard Dawkins and is imWHEN HISTORY AND FAITH COLLIDE plicitly accepted by many anti-evoluStudying Jesus tionary writers such as Michael Behe...
...The Rector is the principal person in charge begin with an acknowledgment of our of an undergraduate residence hall...
...Usually defining In the final moments of Inherit the other environmental topics...
...burning it to the ground...
...This old-fashioned co na rdr•uhb, , !its, sss rot,.' Sr:_vder, I':ofessr~r o_'-F...
...Land" but in the Rhineland, where they debates contained in Thinking Ecological- Cargas was indefatigable in forging slaughtered thousands of Jews...
Vol. 127 • March 2000 • No. 5
