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Pains of Praise

Until he reached his sixtieth birthday, Thomas Kinsella has rarely if ever been thought of as a poet with any kind of paradisal vision. The early poems were orderly, even serene in a clean-cut way, but the order and the cutting had a surgi cal implication. That concern with suffering, more precisely suffering as a prelude to and even form of growth, has flowered in the longer, more experimental poems written since his virtual emigration in the late 1960s. Severance from the Dolmen Press increased his apparent isolation, though the establishment of the Peppercanister imprint after 1972 provided an alternative line of communication with his read ers. Now, with Dolmen gone from the Irish publishing scene, these two books show us a renewed confidence in the poet's mode of address to his highly problematic audience. Not that things are suddenly straight-forward. One Fond Embrace was first published by the Deerfield Press and Gal lery Press in 1981; it stood, that is to say, somewhat aside from the Peppercanister series to which it is now admitted in a radically revised and extended version. The Oxford collec tion brings together the preceding five Peppercanisters (nos. 8-12), so that the reader now has a better opportunity to assess Kinsella at length than has been the case for many a year. The covers are instructive; James Malton's view of St Catherine's Church (Dublin) darkens on the white lami nated boards of Blood and Family, the present-day clock missing from this eighteenth-century engraving. On the cover of One Fond Embrace, the reader finds another engraving ? the Last Supper, but with Christ erased. These lacunae ? Time hidden by Malton's perspective, Christ pre maturely vanished from the earth by the art of Dedalus ? are emblematic in a way which one has come to find charac teristic of Kinsella's larger aesthetic strategy. The corpus of his poetry ? and the Latin term seems apt, even with its theological and medical overtones acknowledged ? is manifestly incomplete, while also being deviously doubled, self-quoting, tortuously self-referring, edge-less. One Fond Embrace has gained more than a casual analo gical relation to the Last Supper, the treacherous embrace of disciples, the bitter irony of a sacrament founded on betrayal. Such themes take us no further than Kinsella's obvious, and hard-earned, Joycean allegiance. As prelude to

Getting Ready for Mission in the 1990s: What Should We Be Doing to Prepare?

By using secular information we can leant much about the “signs of the times.” It is more important for Christians to interpret this future from God's viewpoint, preparing always for the unpredictable. The Bible predicts the second advent and the millennium, and the way in which the church views its future in light of these is significant. Planning, coordination of activity, learning from past failures, preparing for persecution, and establishing priorities are identified as crucial in getting ready for mission in the 1990s.

Het ons kerkwees in strukture gestol?

Does the church freeze in structures? Indications worldwide reveal that no clear and distinct concept of the church prevails today. It is maintained that a dynamic concept of the church and ministerial view on ecclesiastical institutions gave way during the Enlightenment to the concept of the church as a fixed formal institution or a legally defined structure. Even the Reformation wanted to reform papacy and not to establish church structures in opposition to Rome. The structural and denominational view of the church triggered off recurrent church schisms and on the other hand gave birth to an overwhelming urge to unify and form worldwide ecumenical structures, whereby local diversities are even called sin. The question is raised: By retaining the dynamic concept of the church as humans, people of God, wouldn't a new perspective be opened on the problem of diversities?

Erasmus’ View of the Church

Erasmus’ View of the Church

Church Views

Church Views

Two Interior Views of the Old Church in Delft

Two Interior Views of the Old Church in Delft

On Selling Episcopacy: an English Free Church View

There is a hackneyed story which tells how a man who was offered a drink replied thus: ‘No, thank you. I won't have a drink, for three reasons. First, because I am a teetotaller. Second, because I've given it up for Lent. Third, because I've already had two.’ Such forms of argument are familiar in courts of law, even outside Ireland. The defendant pleads that he wasn't there when the blow was struck, but at home watching television; or alternatively that it was actually Jones, and not he himself, who did it, as he saw with his own eyes; or alternatively that the fellow deserved it anyway.

Law in the New Testament: The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Luke xv. 11–32, an elaborate, circumstantial, in fact the longest, parable, calls now for the endeavours of a symposium. This paper cannot do more than open the legal aspects, which have already been handled by Professor David Daube and Professor Jean Dauvillier, and the symbolic aspects, which have been ignored. A complete investigation of the symbolism is not to be looked for until the midrashic links between the parable and its associated passages in Deuteronomy have been expounded by an expert in the technique of delivery of sermons amongst the Jews. Our parable's place in a lectionary cycle has been identified, and the implications of this also must be brought out: in part these will overlap with the work just alluded to, and in part they will reveal the early church's view of the parable's implicit significance. This work, however, will relate to the stage at which the parable became a written document, and to its worth for those who first used it in liturgy. This paper is concerned with Jesus’ own meaning, so far as we can rediscover it from the shape and content of the parable in the light of contemporary attitudes. Though this means covering ground already covered often, and much current exegesis will be confirmed, there is more by way of subtle statement and even more subtle contention in the parable than could have been realized before. Close studies of the vocabulary from Wetstein to J. Jeremias do not help us much at this stage of refinement; but it is interesting to note that in Jeremias's view, well substantiated as to the greater part of the parable, traces of the semitic origin of the document before us are visible throughout.

Henry Hoare's Paradise

In the early eighteenth century Henry Hoare, the banker, built a Palladian Villa near the old manor house of Stourton on the Dorset border of Wiltshire (Fig. 1). He called the place “Stourhead,” from the springs of the river Stour in the valley below. His son, Henry “the Magnificent,” completed the house and dammed the valley to form a lake, around which he made a landscape garden famous in his day and now one of the most perfect survivors of its kind. The house stands on high level ground overlooking the bare Wiltshire downs, its original appearance altered by the addition of wings and a portico (Fig. 5). Some three hundred yards to the west, at a place traditionally known as Paradise,1 the ground falls steeply into the valley where the lake is situated. This can also be approached by a road which descends dramatically from the bleak upper landscape into the lush atmosphere of the garden, where the planting of the hillsides increases the height and the impression of being in a hollow. The walk round the ...

PROEVE VAN EEN ECUMENISCHE BESCHOUWING OVER DE SACRAMENTEN

SUMMARY This is an attempt to formulate the nature of the sacraments in relation to the Church, to the deposit of faith, and to church order, in order to try to establish a way of viewing sacramental practice in terms more positive than validity and invalidity, which now loom uncomfortably large over ecumenical relationships. Part I, dealing with three preliminary questions, first gives a survey of the pronouncements of the Church on the invalidity of Protestant sacraments; added to the defectus intentionis the Church denounces in the Protestant ministry a lack of competence to administer the sacraments after Baptism, even in the case of the Anglican Church, which claims a valid ministry. After this it is laid down that whereas the concept of (in)validity is only prominent in paradoxical situations (especially those in which mala fides plays a part), traditional theology has formulated the nature of the sacrament almost exclusively in terms of (in)validity, thus basing itself on a marginal concept of the ...

Grundtvig and Kierkegaard, their Views of the Church

Grundtvig og Kirkegaard,Deres syn på kirken.

Grundtvig and Kierkegaard: Their Views of the Church

Grundtvig and Kierkegaard: Their Views of the Church

Classics of the Alcohol Literature; Old Russian Church Views on Inebriety

Classics of the Alcohol Literature; Old Russian Church Views on Inebriety

The Protestant Church View of Sex, Love and Marriage

The Protestant Church View of Sex, Love and Marriage

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

British Journal of InebrietyVolume 17, Issue 4 p. 179-187 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. First published: April 1920 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1920.tb04035.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Review in this Article The Social Worker. By C. R. The Feeding OF Nations: A Study IN Applied Physiology. By Ernest H. Starling, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Physiology AND National Needs. Edited by W. D. Halliburton, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Employment Psychology: The Application OF Scientific Methods TO THE Selection, Training, AND Grading OF Employees. By Henry C. Link Altitude AND Health. By F. F. Roget, Privat-Docent Professor in the University of Geneva. Rainfall, Reservoirs, AND Water-Supply. By Sir Alexander R. Binnie. Makers OF TO-Morrow. Edited by T. Vivian-Rees. Women's Wild Oats: Essays ON THE Re-FIXING OF Moral Standards. By C. Gasquoine Hartley. A HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH WOMEN's HOSPITALS. Edited by Eva Pathways TO Christian Unity: A Free Church View. By Arthur Black, G. E. Darlaston, W. E. Orchard, William Paton, J. H. Squire, and Malcolm Spencer. Volume17, Issue4April 1920Pages 179-187 RelatedInformation

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