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so it was only natural that a...
...Furnished living quarters tion to Orthodox and Reformation spirwithin the residence hall and a meal plan are provided...
...think of the Thousand Year Reich Writings Selected with an Introduction or the classless society with its vision of b1' Eric f7 .Springsted 1-57075-204-i paper 513.00 the new Soviet man...
...tion to the Heritage Together with a graduate student Assistant Rector and by Charles J. Healey undergraduate Seniors serving as Resident Assistants, the Rector Alba House, $22.95, 432 pp...
...areas only lightly touched on here...
...Here are six essays that to the teeming masses of Latin America...
...In other words, O'Murchu is in full-blown reac- PIERRE TE:I1.1{ARD DE CHA#RDIN tion against a Catholicism in which, we Writings Selected with an Introduction presume, he was himself shaped...
...Joachim of Fiore Writings Selected with an introduction did it in the early Middle Ages...
...Blackwell, $28.95, 350 pp...
...book, in short, has a feeling of snob- spirituality...
...program in law and religion The final chapter (and the most instructive) uses a series of short, classic spiritual texts-ranging from Gregory Tuition discounts available...
...A master's degree is preferred...
...tic Wisdom (Eerdmans...
...McGinn suggests a numthe practice of the ber of people for possible inclusion...
...ence of God in language (especially literary language) and to the way that Emanuel Levinas grounds ethics in his idea of the "other...
...pearing either abstract or elitist...
...This position is held by Christian Spirituality: An Introducpriests, male and female religious, and committed lay people...
...Christian Spirituality: about the dark night of the soul...
...The This may be a result of the author's own distinction is important...
...I definitely do New Jerusalem Bible...
...that was great fun...
...Chapter 6 assesses the role of visualization in spirituality and its various Christian manifestations...
...mer-school sessions on a subject of driguez...
...The Rector also acts as liaison to with McGrath is Charles J. Healey's surother University Departments responsible for student welfare and vey of Christian spirituality...
...I do not great chasms between old and new...
...catalysts for the integration of students' intellectual, spiritual and social development...
...Alphonsus Liguori is never H O U R S since women did not exercise the min- cited in the documents of Vatican II, alPRAYERS istry of theological teaching...
...The doctores had Catholic faith...
...This doctors, and, finally, to speculate on the not think that Louis de Montfort should beautiful book is the future, and, more tantalizingly, on who make the cut because of the oddly rocofirst of a three-volume could or should be on the list...
...witness would he crowned he O'Murchu, an Irish priest based in his own martyrdom...
...the doctors is to look at how frequently Lawrence S. Cunningham they are cited in official teachings...
...Over a hundred years would pass until a new each day name (Anselm of Canterbury) would be included in the list...
...Healey provides biographical sketchSister Mary Louise Gude, C.S.C...
...He is, however, quite impatient 1-800-258-5838 with the clods and dullards who do not www-orbisbooks.com find the Christian tradition hopelessly retrograde...
...We Benedictine Rule of It is the burden of McGinn's readable think of the teaching of doctrine in a fixed-hour praver, which volume to describe how the honorific more expansive fashion today, so one makes use of the Church "doctor of the church" grew in the tra- might include Francis of Assisi or the Fathers, the Book of dition, to provide brief biographies of monastic witness of John Cassian (also Common Prayer, and the the thirty-three persons who are called suggested by McGinn...
...his long experience as a university and The University currently has positions open for Rectors in seminary professor, this well-written men's and women's residence halls...
...McGinn further reall who seek the path ologians and preachers referred to the sists the notion of an ecumenical "doctor of the spirit...
...Charles Avenue plication to the life situation...
...the power of Wells (1983), in which liberation themes first saw light either as journal articles or language...
...great patristic writers of the past as doc- of the church" because, he argues, doctores (in the Christian East the reference tores should teach the fullness of the was to "The Fathers...
...It could served a few years ago, there has been a available in translation and is unselec- be quite useful for any teacher or studearth of solid materials for recently converted Evangelicals seeking to sustain their new Christian lives...
...wm r.d(nr1lcLIavcorn A Dominican pope declared Thomas Alister McGrath, principal of Wycliffe Aquinas a doctor of the church in 1568, Hall at Oxford University, is one of the Commonweal 2 4 March 24, 2000 of course, does not talk generically tive about secondary literature...
...This is rather like handicapping the Nobel One of America's most Prize...
...he Third, the relationship of spiritualiAn Introduction by Alister McGrath speaks, rather, of the dark night of the ty and social action is not addressed...
...Anselm of Canterbury gets but a Paul II added the name of Therese of single citation...
...Approximately 6,550 of the 7,600 skillfully about spirituality without apundergraduates live in 27 single-sex residence halls on campus...
...Despite a nice list of Web sites, Despite these criticisms, I found some urgency for McGrath...
...John Henry Newman is cited respected authorities The Doctors of the Church nearly thirty times in Vatican II and four on religion offers an by Bernard McGinn times in the catechism, which puts him authoritative, supportive, Crossroad, $17.95,193 pp...
...The variations are enormous: The lished in 1967, the author Thomas Aquinas leads with nearly eight D I V I N E assured us that the likelihood of a hundred citations, while Augustine is a woman being so honored was slight close second...
...Christian spirituality through rejection think it could be used on its own...
...To my Within its undergraduate residence halls, the University mind, Gutierrez does this better than strives to create communities of faith and learning that serve as most...
...spirit, and enduring legacy of the Archbishop, whose uncompromising...
...Still, this is a book best by Gustavo Gutierrez read in tandem with works that address learn some fundamental themes: the Orbis, $22, 213 pp...
...for years later Paul VI named Catherine Robert Bellarmine gets twenty-nine citaS U M M E R T I M E of Siena and Teresa of Avila doctors of tions in Vatican II but none in the catethe church...
...I have a soft spot in my a certain eminence because of the weight heart for John Wesley...
...Gus- utter gratuity of God's love for us...
...One could learn brose, Jerome, as well as Easterners like a good deal about the history of theolGregory of Nyssa and Athanasius, were ogy from it while finding clues for furcommonly cited as authoritative theo- ther reading in McGinn's fine biblilogical sources...
...LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS It is always useful for a Catholic to see MASTER OF ARTS how the subject of spirituality is treated in other traditions...
...and, finally, joy in the midst are put into dialogue with the life of as academic addresses...
...by Robert Ellsberg 1-57075-244-3 paper 513.00 Announcing a New Age is, of course, HENRI NOt1WEN hardly a new enterprise...
...Also: unique J.D./M.A...
...What can John of the Cross say tentive to both the absence and the presof the Present...
...This method FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: reminds me of the old Puritan formula Department of Religious Studies for preaching a sermon: an expanded Loyola University New Orleans consideration of the text, an explanation of its doctrine, and, finally, an ap- 6363 St...
...One way to assess the importance of prayer...
...Chapter 4 selects a series of theological themes, gives a de- • Systematic Theology finition for each, its location in Christian • Ethics practice, and finally, how it enters into the spiritual life...
...essay takes us from the apostolic fathers The position of Rector is a full-time, live-in position, although down to the period after Vatican II...
...O'Murchu is fed up with "re- 30 Years of Books that Matter ligion" but bullish on "spirituality"Commonweal 2 7 March 24, 2000...
...The final chapter also perIt was not until after the Council of mits one to enter the guessing game dj Doubleday Trent that popes began to add new doc- with the rules he supplies and, for me, A%,aifahle wherever books arc sold tors of the church at regular intervals...
...O'Murchu, of At your bookseller or direct course, has nothing so apocalyptic in ORBIS BOOKS mind...
...Also included in this volume prayer, worship, and spiritual growth, marking the fourth centenary of the is a wonderful talk on the relationship would be a useful companion volume...
...His most guage sources and a more-than-ade- could not make heads or tails of this recent book is Thomas Merton and Monasquate index...
...To be sure, the author place on mine...
...Three though he is cited once in the catechism...
...He supplies the obligatory introductory material before providing four meaty chapters fashioned in the CONCENTRATIONS AVAILABLE IN: style of casebooks...
...Lisieux...
...More recently, Pope John chism...
...Christian Spirituality is designed to fill that need...
...The general asSecond, McGrath's bibliographies are sumption seems to be that spirituality most prolific theologians writing with- not comprehensive...
...He does not cite most concerns the individual...
...educates, counsels, and accompanies students in the life of faith, and calls students to accountability in accordance with Univer- Another book to be read in tandem sity behavioral expectations...
...That criticism, theory, chaos theory, and so on...
...For a relatively modest book...
...Here, Gutierrez is atspirituality can be found in The Density an issue...
...Chapter 5 does the • History of Christianity same for biblical themes while furnish• Biblical Studies ing information on various writers and schools of spirituality related to these • World Religions various biblical topoi...
...The names This is an engagingly written book of Augustine, Gregory the Great, Am- on a topic little studied...
...Evangelical orientation...
...the tavo Gutierrez's We Drink from Our Own call to freedom in faith...
...ographies...
...The Rector is the principal person in charge of an undergraduate residence hall...
...In con- ANTHONY DE MELLO Writings Selected with an Introduction tradistinction to these new forms of by William Dych 1-57075-283.4 paper $14.00 knowing, he juxtaposes the "guardians of orthodoxy": the stultifying utterances METRIC" BONHOEFFEft of the magisterium, the rigid moralism Writings Selected with an Introduction by Robert Coles 1-5'075-114-3 paper 51:;.00 of much of Catholicism, etc...
...Staring salary for the 2000-2001 year Catholic tradition...
...Based on the physical condition of the residence hall...
...includes the obligatory discourse on Christian Spirituality has a fairly rep- identifying with the "marginalized," Lawrence S. Cunningham teaches theology resentative bibliography of English-lan- but my suspicion is that those folks at the University of Notre Dame...
...birth of John of the Cross is an excellent between theological language and the Gutierrez's more recent writings on example of how Gutierrez approaches human condition...
...His 1992 paper of trials...
...From then the with list would grow apace...
...Golden card Scott Wright Celebrates the !ife...
...For example, he goes on at e-mail: sjduffy@loyno.edu 1, iii 1iii, u UNIVERSITY some length about John of the Cross website: www loyno.edu NEW ORLEANS " and the "dark night of the soul...
...First, McGrath does not seem to fax: (504) 865-3179 I 011 have a firm grasp on all of the historical sources...
...little foin the Evangelical tradition...
...price, one gets, in short, a kind of brief version of the now out-of-print threeThe Essential Writings of the Great volume The History of Christian SpirituSpiritual Figures of the Twentieth Century ality written by Louis Bouyer et al...
...In his by I rsula King 1-570-5-248-6 paper $13.00 reaction, he does not shrink from iden- CHARLES DE Fournum tifying himself with "New Age" spiri- Writings Selected with an Introduction tuality...
...IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION McGrath, a veteran textbook writer, knows how to put a cogent book together...
...McGinn supplies a handy appendix indicating n the entry on "Doctors of such citation in the documents of Vatican 1 the Church" in The New II and in the Catechism of the Catholic I Catholic Encyclopedia pub- Church...
...Still, Alas, the "new" which he espouses de- and parody...
...Not a bad Campus Box 81 formula at all...
...There he pays attenis pending final budget approval...
...breaking this pattern only to catch up Starting salary for this nine-month position in 1999-2000 on spiritual trends outside the Roman was $27,338, plus benefits...
...Stacie Lk nnis...
...ahead, by my count, of fourteen of the yet gentle guide to official doctors...
...There is Notre Dame, IN 46556 nothing original in his exposition (he is (219) 631-5550 heavily dependent on standard secondary sources), but neither is there eccentricity or bad judgment...
...Rears...
...In the limited space of this modest volume EBERNARD ARNOLD he links up creation spirituality, chaos Writings Selected with an Introd:action byJohann Ch ristoph Arnold theory, the feminist movement, Jungian the cs ei ial origin ,s nl the re07arkmh]e ?1)1h ccrilury figure archetypes, the new physics, a radical who founded the 13ruderhof conunlm1ljes- i booms Merton critique of patriarchy, nonjudgmental I called Arnnld-s writings Iominous.F; 9 }• k F1 A R 17 1.57075.304.0 paper $14.00 approaches to sexuality, and various AR NJtI~ - kinds of ecological theory...
...some Rectors hold part-time teaching positions or part-time Healey tells his story chronologically, administrative assignments...
...As he ob- he neglects to note primary sources much to admire in this work...
...It certainly will find no the book probably ought to be read in bish gnosticism...
...New Orleans, LA 70118 I do have three mild criticisms, how- (504) 865-3943 ever...
...This most the now standard volume of the col- cused attention is paid to spiritual recent work is the fruit of six years of lected works of John of the Cross by growth in the context of liturgy and serteaching spirituality seminars in sum- Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Ro- vice to the world...
...But his book will hardly find a place veyed can be staggering...
...New Age by Robert A. Jonas 1-57075-197.8 paper 514.00 thinking has often veered toward the de- 5I11IONE WEiL monic...
...John, Commonweal 2 5 March 24, 2000 dent who wishes to learn how to study Is his doctrine too precious and elitist The Density of the Present: Selected to be of real use...
...This work Commonweal 26 March 24, 2000 could well serve as a companion piece terms which, innocently, he sees as In announcing a "new spiritual vifor a course in spirituality along with a polar opposites...
...McGinn co Mariology that he espoused, but set-an ideal guide for points out that in the Middle Ages the- McGinn likes him...
...senses and the dark night of faith...
...He is out to create sion," O'Murchu eviscerates traditional selection of primary texts...
...assigned to their teaching...
...Modern Spiritual Masters Reclaiming Spirituality by Diarmuid O'Murchu OSCAR ROMERO Reflections on 1-Ha Life and Writings Crossroad, $15.95, 197 pp...
...Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs es of the major figures, brief accounts 316 Main Building of the cultural matrix within which they lived, and a short analysis of the domiUniversity of Notre Dame nant themes in their writings...
...What person will make the list...
...Gutierrez invites us spirituality with some level of intellecWritings to look again at the great mystic to retual seriousness...
...El small chunks...
...These essays (others University of Notre Dame deal with discipleship, the ecclesial dimension of theology, the concordance Residence Hall Rector of the terms "friends of God" and "friends of the poor" ) illustrate how a The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic university founded by superbly trained theologian can write the Congregation of Holy Cross...
...so it was only natural that a Franciscan pope would name Saint Bonaventure a Enrich doctor two decades later...
...of Nyssa down to more modern writers-to show how one might "interrogate" the text while using "selective attention" to avoid getting bogged down in the peripheral details...
...He is, of course, free to do the sheer amount of information con- mands a grasp of fractals, quantum so...
...1-57075-309-1 paper 513.00 London, is a lover of the big theme...
...ituality and also to those traditions (like For further information or to request an application, the Holiness tradition) often glossed please contact: over in standard accounts...
...This on any serious bibliography of Christian however, is not meant as a serious one...
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