Theology Issue, now online.
September 27, 2011, 2:30 pm
Posted by Grant Gallicho
Yesterday our Theology Issue (October 7) went live on our site. Here’s what’s free:
* Our editorial on Israel and the question of Palestinian statehood.
* Michael W. Higgins’s piece on Marshall McLuhan’s “post-curial Catholicism.”
* Thomas Baker’s review of Fr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism project.
These feature articles are available only to subscribers (not a subscriber? Sign up here):
* Luke Timothy Johnson explains why the Devil is no joke.
* Jerry Ryan tells the story of his friend the exorcist.
* Lawrence S. Cunningham demystifies mysticism.
Check out the rest of the issue right here.
I haven”t read the whole issue yet, but the Luke Timothy Johnson piece is really stimulating. Would it make a good thread?
No girls allowed?
Can Commonweal editors post something like this every time a new edition comes out? Now that I am an electronic subscriber, and the magazine doesn’t show up in the mail like it used to, I frequently forget to check it out.
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My print copy, which I will continue to hopefully subscribe to, arrived yesterday.
I agree that Luke Timothy’s piece would be a fine thread subject.
I thought the book reviews were most interesting.
(I particularly noted Bernard Prusak’s review of Fr. Keenan’s “A History of Ctaholic Moral Theology In The twentieth Century.”
There, interestingly, he takes on R.R. Reno’s First Things Review that calls the work a caricature and posits it shows “the sad intellectuakl dead end ofwhich the post Vatican Two liberal project has come.”
While Prusak critiques Keenan he also it pains to sharply criticize Reno.
Reno and geoerge Weigel, to my mind, represent the sometimes arrogant but always intrasigen tconservative side of intellectiual Catholicism that is part of the ever growing divide in the Church – yes, there is, despite some disclaimers, a real liberal/conservative split just as in politics in which the major sin IMO is intransigence.)
Also, the end piece (as often happens) is a gem.
Too bad for the nonsubscribers here as they lose another fine piece of perspective -something often missing in the easy world of blogdom.