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Benjamin Iury YOU COULD LOOK IT UP The 'New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians' With fitting hoopla, the second edition of the Naw Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians has appeared....
...MATTHEW KOWALSKI, O.S.B...
...JULIAN IRIAS Davis, Calif...
...ROGER J. LANDRY Fall River, Mass...
...there are major new efforts like Cambridge University's Reinhard Strohm on the composer Heinrich Isaac, and French researcher Myriam Chimenes on Francis Poulenc...
...DEREK s. JEFFREYS Green Bay, Wis...
...Finally, an expert search will give the reader a choice of what is meant by catholic, upper- and lower-case c. The reader may choose a preferred definition or just proceed with the search...
...Instead he offered a gentle argument for the large family, that carried all the more weight for avoiding the hectoring arguments of church apologists...
...Paul Hottinger asks why I don't work at all this stuff I said needed doing, since the pope is a busier guy than I am...
...Three searches are available online: the article search, full-text search, and expert search...
...When I attempt an expert search for the church composer and conductor John Rutter, for example, Grove online asked me if John means "a disciple of Jesus," "a prostitute's customer," or "a room equipped with washing and toilet facilities...
...The price is hefty ($4,850), but by stretching from twenty-four hundred contributors and 16 million words in 1980 to six thousand contributors and 25 million words today, the New Grove's editors took a necessary lexicographical risk...
...In what way is God's image connected to the human body...
...Jeffreys says that the pope does not really have an "act-centered morality...
...I would not be surprised to find them multiplied...
...As couples, we communicate more, not less...
...Jo McGowan's "Corporal Punishment" and A.W...
...Marvin, S.D...
...PAUL A. HOTTINGER Downers Grove, III...
...By the way, though certain passages of the book of Revelation are commonly used to support interpretations of the Rapture, the notion itself is drawn from 1 Thessalonians 4:17...
...These are all helpful and reliable articles, gratifying to read...
...Landry praises what the pope had said about pleasure and the rest in 1960...
...Is Johnson sure that "absolutely everything we can learn about God must come to us" from our bodies...
...Carroll's irony The ultimate irony of James Carroll's theories [see Robert Wilken's review of Constantine's Sword, "Dismantling the Cross," Janurary 26] about the inevitability of Christian anti-Semitism is that those Christians who risked their lives to save Jews did so not in spite of their faith but because of it...
...Grove is not fat, it is limitless...
...Roger Landry and Jennifer Popiel offer testimonies concerning the joy brought to couples who are introduced to papal teaching on sexuality or who practice natural family planning...
...Moreover, I have witnessed too many joy-filled "Eureka...
...Since Alleva's own concerns have to do with the verisimilitude of the Left Behind series as thrillers, he is certainly entitled to be selective in his quarrels...
...In the end, some might well agree with Johnson...
...God will hear you...
...JENNIFER POP1EL Green Bay, Wis...
...Rutter's last name was read by the computer as "rut," with equally unfortunate choices of definitions...
...By resurrecting an outmoded ethical category, Johnson does little to further the debate about Humane vitae...
...My first name was defined as "a balsamic resin obtained from certain tropical Asian trees," and my last name registered as "a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne...
...Godfrey's opening sentences prepared me for a sentimental look at his ordeals as a single parent...
...But why should we assume that using a condom is different than periodic abstinence with respect to intention concerning childbirth...
...Whether Grove is on the reference shelf or online, teachers, students, researchers, and the common reader will find it an abiding source of satisfaction...
...And these are just the small articles...
...May it not be precisely because the "purpose of a catemodern sexual ethics...
...The first will bring up only references found in the titles of articles, so typing in "Catholic" results in an ample, if not strikingly innovative, article on the Roman Catholic church's relationship to music...
...I have no more objection to those who choose this path than I do to those who choose celibacy, in or out of marriage...
...Godfrey's "Crowd Control" reimpressed on me how disparate elements can join to strike a blow to the solar plexus...
...As he suggests, we ought to revisit this encyclical, and we may end up concluding that John Paul II's personalism cannot support his opposition to artificial contraception...
...LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON Large families & ideas I was pleasantly surprised by two pieces in the February 9 issue of Commonweal...
...Unfortunately, there are no online illustrations, and as yet only a few links to outside Web sites with musical examples...
...This to me is the real problem of native...
...Alleva's rapture It is irenic of Richard Alleva ["Beam Me Up," January 12] to seek no quarrel with the idea of the Rapture or even with the LaHaye-Jenkins interpretation of it...
...Maybe I will...
...An old woman on a crowded trolley in Warsaw, at a time and in a place where one could trust almost no one, replied to the anti-Semitic diatribe a fellow passenger was delivering by saying, "Hush up...
...I'm still looking for answers...
...He is more in a position to address these issues than the pope...
...marian burkhart New York, N.Y...
...Johnson wants church teaching to be based in ordinary life experience, but let him consider this basic problem: If a population of 1 million couples is using artificial birth control, one year the normal failure rate will result in at least fifty thousand unwanted pregnancies...
...I have no reason to think I would have had such courage...
...I finally did prevail by ignoring the definitions and carrying on to the search results...
...A full-text search supplies every mention of Catholicism among the 25 million words of Grove...
...For example, Johnson's focus on the use of the rhetoric of self-control causes him to miss the larger point: many of us who follow church teachings do so joyfully and find that it has brought greater, not lesser, pleasure and happiness to our lives...
...With courage akin to Pasteur's when he vaccinated himself, I next entered my own name into the expert search...
...Navigating Grove online is generally easy, although it is still a work in progress...
...I wonder how this squares with the experience of believers...
...I am pleased to hear them...
...Until the critics of Humanae vitae address this, John Paul II will continue to win the philosophical argument while much of the population simply ignores him...
...Disappointed As someone who believes in Humanae vitae but also agrees there is room for further development in this teaching, I found Luke Timothy Johnson's essay disappointing...
...Why can't the consensual use of a condom be as holy an act as the consensual avoidance of fertility...
...Bach, for example, is linked to a Web site with some fairly mediocre performances of the great composer's work...
...Why doesn't the professor provide a consistent ethic of sexual behavior taking into account the experience of married people, homosexuals, and those who are single "yet whose erotic desires find no legitimate or sanctified expression...
...Well, if he does not, then his persistence in supporting Humanae vitae becomes even stranger, for that composition is strictly act-centered...
...But as Grove continues its ongoing efforts toward online refinement, one can expect links to improve...
...But even in his analysis, a dismissal of current theology would have to involve a serious attempt to confront the realities behind the church's teachings...
...Readings of Scripture that force it into a fortune-telling role do not have a good track record...
...However, when I chose neither of these distinguished associations but pressed on with the search, Grove returned the mention of my book on Francis Poulenc in the bibliography following the article on the composer...
...Johnson's failures to contextualize the pope's thought within its corpus as a whole and to understand the purpose of a catechetical address seem to be at the root of his embarrassingly off-base criticisms and misunderstandings...
...The Grove article on J.S...
...Despite some surprises, then, the online version can function well...
...If natural family planners, surprised by pregnancy, are then open to God's will concerning a birth, why should we assume that those using condoms who are surprised whould then seek an abortion...
...Consistent ethic Luke Timothy Johnson does offer some salient points in his critique of Pope John Paul II's theology, which he describes as "abstract" and idealistic...
...And we still love our partners and rejoice in our ability to demonstrate that physically...
...Carping about dimensions also ignores the sensational news that now Grove is available online to libraries and individuals...
...The Telegraph objected to the small group of new articles on pop and world music, but it neglected the work's backbone, thousands of articles by little-sung but highly capable and even eloquent writers on music...
...Even the smallest college dorm room or divinity school library with Internet access may obtain the Grove's authoritative information on the composer, musical work, tradition, or form of choice, all for an annual, monthly, or hourly online access fee ($295 a year for an individual...
...The author replies: Derek Jeffreys and Roger Landry think that I have misrepresented Pope John Paul II because I did not take into account his other writings on the subject of human love, or grasp the "purpose of a catechetical address...
...Finally, in regard to the Theology of the Body, I found one of Johnson's principles rather hard to accept: "Human bodies are part of God's image and the means through which absolutely everything we can learn about God must come to us...
...They did so in response to the belief that Christ died to save all of us— Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the handicapped as well...
...This is borne out by documented facts: a high percentage of women seeking abortions were using birth control methods that failed...
...Robert hannon Fairbanks, Ark...
...But Christians reading the New Testament as a source of divine revelation may demand more of a proposed exegesis than that it be sincere and interesting...
...I know of no other reference work that will tell you whether a name is mentioned among so very many words...
...But there are other stories, voiced by people of equally deep faith and love for the church but with quite different experiences, and I would like them to be heard as well...
...Most are from Britain, including Andrew Porter writing on the singer Cathy Berberian, Patrick O'Connor on composer Reynaldo Hahn, David Cairns on conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, and Tully Potter on violist Tabea Zimmermann...
...This, it seems to me, would go beyond repetition of the platitudes about access to a lover's body and the benefits of sexual enjoyment to a discussion about the real experiences of people who have made a serious attempt to conform to doctrinal standards...
...I rather doubt that this generation's revisionists would have either...
...REV...
...I wonder what the mystics would say about this...
...But if these are the pope's sentiments, why is there no trace of them in the multiple addresses making up Theology of the Body...
...Jeffreys connects my poor grasp of the pope's overall position with my suggestion that the church may be in danger of colluding in genocide...
...In point of fact, has the author actually been willing to listen to and learn from people who give witness to the magnificent grace available to those 43 who foEow the church's teachings on sexuality...
...When proper names are entered, unexpected—and sometimes trying—results occur...
...I think of Jan Korski skiing across the Alps, a consecrated host in a pendant on a chain around his neck, to tell the Allies who couldn't have cared less what was happening at Auschwitz...
...for information: www.grovemusic.com...
...Perhaps it's the general intellectual numbness of coming off a hotly contested election with its high polemics, but I find personal reflections by such sensitive narrators more persuasive these days than the closely reasoned certainty of experts...
...Nevertheless, before drawing such a conclusion, we ought to at least represent the pope's position fairly...
...What is pertinent is a reexamination of the moral issue in light of medical disaster, not a reexamination of the pope's entire corpus to justify the church's present stance...
...The joys of Catholic sex Luke Timothy Johnson's article left me with a nagging unease...
...My experiences lead me to believe that the answer would not be as dismal as the author assumes...
...Eureka moments I trust that Luke Timothy Johnson is too good a scholar not to be profoundly embarrassed that he failed to read Wojtyla's Love and Responsibility before penning his "A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body.'" In this 1960 work, the future pope convincingly establishes the "embodiedness" of his teaching on human sexuality, including a positive discussion on the role of pleasure in the conjugal act, the sheer candor of which was considered by many contemporaries as beneath the dignity of a prelate...
...It replaces the previous edition, from 1980, with nine additional volumes, making for a total of twenty-nine...
...Without taking up the philosophical issues behind his "deductive theology," I would push Johnson on his concluding claim that "we must, in all humility, be willing to learn from the bodies and the stories of those whose response to God and to God's world involves sexual love...
...D 28 (Continued from page 4} personhood undermines the utilitarian reasoning pervasive in debates about artificial contraception...
...Since these couples have already decided to separate childbearing from sexual pleasure, abortion becomes the natural solution...
...For those of us who find enjoyment and edification in dipping into Grove for all matters musical, this expansion increases the odds that we will find what we are looking for...
...It is precisely the connection between birth control and abortion that Johnson seems to disregard...
...The individual volumes are comfortable to handle...
...REV...
...Certainly, not everyone who uses natural family planning will find it easy...
...Matthew Kowalski makes the point that allowing artificial birth control would lead inevitably to abortion, since for people whose sexual activity already excludes the thought of having a child, "abortion becomes the natural solution...
...I think perhaps with more admiration about an incident recounted in a letter to the New York Review of Books by an Israeli who survived the occupation of Poland...
...His thinking leads to a very confusing ethical point of view...
...moments among young engaged and married couples not to be convinced of the Theology of the Body's great pastoral utility...
...Just a small point in response to Popiel: I think that I called the pope's theology "deductive," whereas I would prefer a theology that was more "inductive...
...As for the online texts, there is the satisfaction of finding details that only a computer index provides...
...Yet London's Daily Telegraph has charged that "Grove has grown too fat," as if a reference book were subject to our modern culture of Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig...
...5 McGowan, by juxtaposing the general chaos of India's earthquake with the particular and personal moral challenge of a public interrogation, managed, for me at least, to convey how bewildering our world is and how great events find reflections in our everyday life...
...Articles of this quality were written mainly out of devotion, as authors' remuneration was poor, according to one report...
...But my point about genocide was linked to the absolute prohibition of condoms, including for people with aids...
...We are more in tune with one another's desires...
...This is true enough, but I wonder if Johnson has really offered an alter44 chetical address" was to support, as I suggest, Humanae vitae...
Vol. 128 • March 2001 • No. 5
