Religion booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
ileen Egan is one of the and Hildegard Goss-Mayr); portraits of most remarkable...
...and a steady collaborator of the Catholic Peace Be with You The central chapters of that section treat Worker movement as a regular contribby Eileen Egan three major figures in the development utor to its newspaper's pages...
...Yale University Press, $25, 220 pp...
...men follow...
...and a work with Catholic Relief Services dur- BOOKNOTES history of conscientious objection (the ing World War II, participation in the evolution of Catholic thinking on that peace lobby at the Second Vatican Coun- issue is fascinating...
...portraits of most remarkable Catholic Thomas Merton, the Berrigan brothers, E women of our time...
...dition: Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Two aspects of Egan's temperament Peace Be with You is Egan's summa of Bernard of Clairvaux...
...When confronted, for example, gives us a panoramic view of the theo- the nonviolent revolutions in the Philip- by the cliche-ridden question of pacifism ry, praxis, and lives of the peacemak- pines and Eastern Europe (with won- in the Second World War (an issue that ers of the church in our time...
...heroes die or wander...
...a chronicle of events...
...duced to do so...
...After having fulfilled that obligation for four years, John Drury Commonweal 32 April 21, 2000...
...Part history, it Second Vatican Council...
...blood is shed for her by John Drury return...
...groaned at the long wooden tables of our To be fully committed to peacemakrecitations, I still carry Homer's ing in a radical fashion is a conversionGreek with me in my memory to bus stops, ary grace from God...
...ters which constitute this section include markable life story if she cannot be inEither way, the reader will find fasci- an exploration of a "theology of peace...
...Her ac- RELIGION Martin Luther King, Jr., and other adtive and rich life includes herents of Gandhian nonviolence...
...derful pages on the indefatigable Jean vexed many members of the Catholic Worker), she calls that war "just...
...As The second section addresses a mul- index does not even include her own such it can be read either systematical- titude of topics under the rubric, "The name), so much so that one fervently ly from beginning to end or episodical- Way of Nonviolence...
...There is, of course, dactyls into our brains so that, though we a cautionary tale in that observation...
...In other words, a just war was waged because issues of injusOn the katabatic march, Tuck tice led to the rise of those against whom (our tutor) drilled, countersunk and bolted war had to be waged...
...Again...
...Her porOrbis, $22, 350 pp...
...riding in its worthless steel armor against age-old, vengeful forces: beauty Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meaning flees...
...But she adds that if the victorious powers had not been so punitive at the end the First World War, Hitler might never have Reading Homer risen to be a leader...
...of what is known as the "just war" tra- trait of Day has the ring of authenticity...
...In addition, she is very nating details about the movement for a recollection of the peace lobby at the judicious in her treatment of persons and peace and nonviolence...
...made over the centuries to develop what herself was such a close friend of Day she calls the "Way of Justified Warfare...
...May we hear more from this exat hand to vanquish the din of traffic, emplary woman...
...Andrew Krivak One of the duties of the dean of Christ Church (Oxford) is to preach the annual Christmas sermon...
...A particularly fine cil, collaboration with Mother Teresa section of chapter 14 sketches a history (about whom she wrote a prize-winning of the Pax Christi movement...
...suffuse the work...
...The witness of an whispering the passage of Tiresias Eileen Egan, as well as the kind of book under my breath, assuaging what time that she has written, is an "occasion of I might have lost with no other sounds grace...
...The eight chap- hopes that someone will write her rely according to its discrete sections...
...The first traces the attempts a special poignancy since Eileen Egan violence in all its forms...
...Egan is a tremendously loving chapters to the life and witness spiritual person who has spent her life as Egan divides her work into three large of the late Dorothy Day-chapters with a maker of peace and a staunch foe of sections...
...study), and an intimate friendship with Lawrence S. Cunningham The third part of the book devotes two Dorothy Day...
...She is self-effacing (the peacemaking theory and practice...
Vol. 127 • April 2000 • No. 8
