Letters to the Editor: October 1986

Lay Involvement: Superficial Cure... On Salvation... A Misreading

The Trusting Heart & the Primacy of the Mystical Life

HOLY ENOUGH TO WALK ON WATER

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Handicapped people, who have such a limited ability to learn, can let their heart speak easily and thus reveal a mystical life that for many intelligent people seems unreachable.

The Infantile Illusion of Omnipotence & the Modern Ideology of Science

NOTES ON GNOSTICISM

Christopher Lasch

Renewed scholarly interest in gnosticism has been, for the most part, remarkably sympathetic, as if it represented an important corrective and alternative to Christianity.

Capitalist Self-Seeking or Christian Self-Denial?

“FREEDOM OR VIRTUE?”— REVISITED

L. Brent Bozell

Christ’s earthly work, and ours, will be done when crosses are no longer needed for the salvation of men — when the poor are no longer with us.

In Paul Tillich’s Seminar

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In the heyday of psychoanalytic reductionism, we were entranced with our ability to use psychiatric labels, to explain everything as the result of certain somethings.

The Soviet Union & Gorki’s God

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

A people, such as the Russians, who have produced and who still honor writers like Gorki, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy deserve to be regarded with respect.

A Movie Masterpiece

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

Kurosawa dramatizes the truth that the sins of the parents are visited on their children. The harm Ran has done has returned to haunt his old age.

Briefly Reviewed: October 1986

The Humiliation of the Word... The Church and the Parachurch: An Uneasy Marriage... John Paul II and the Battle for Vatican II: Report from the Synod... Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... Too Many People?: A Problem in Values