Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity

Book reviewed:
Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity by Rick Anthony Furtak (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) xii + 236 pp. Reviewed by M. Jamie Ferreira Department of Religious Studies Halsey Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA     

Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein

Book reviewed:
Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein edited by Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (London: SCM Press, 2004) xiv + 286 pp. Reviewed by Scott D. Moringiello Department of Theology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Mary Vetterling-Braggin, editor, Sexist Language: A Modern Philosophical Analysis (Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1981).
Fred R. Dallmayr, Beyond Dogma and Despair: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Politics (Notre Dame and London, Notre Dame University Press, 1981).
Andrew Feenberg, Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory, (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1981).
C. Dyke, Philosophy of Economics, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1981).
Alan Garfinkel, Forms of Explanation: Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).     

REVIEWS

EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX by John Bowden, SCM , 1983, £4.95 PILGRIMAGE TO PRIESTHOOD by Elizabeth Canham, SPCK
HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF THE MARCAN HYPOTHESIS by Hans-Herbert Stoldt: Translated from the German by D L Niewyk, T & T Clark , 1980, pp
THE COMING OF GOD by Maria Boulding, SPCK , London, 1982. pp
THE AUTONOMY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF: A Critical Inquiry. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick J. Crosson. University of Notre Dame Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, 2. Notre Dame , 1981. pp
WOMEN, NATURE AND REASON by Carol McMillan Basil Blackwell 1982
OSCAR ROMERO, BISHOP AND MARTYR by James Brockman S J Sheed & Ward , London
CHRISTIAN SATISFACTION IN AQUINAS: Towards a Personalist Understanding by R. Cessario. University Press of America , Washington
A WORLD TO GAIN by Brian Home. DLT 1983. pp     

The emergence of scholars studying christianity in mainland China

The Russian Phoenix by Francis House. London: SPCK, 1988. Paperback, 133 pp., £7.95.

Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev by Frederick C. Copleston. Tunbridge Wells: Search Press and Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. 445 pp.

A Megbékélés Etikája (The Ethics of Reconciliation) by Géza Németh. Unpublished. Written in Budapest in 1987. 62 pp.*

Chekisty: A History of the KGB by John Dziak. Lexington, Lexington Books, 1988. 234 pp.

A Short History of Modern Bulgaria by R.J. Crampton. Cambridge University Press, 1987. 221pp.

The Chernobyl Disaster by Viktor Haynes and Marko Bojcun. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988. Paperback, 233 pp, £7.95.     

REVIEWS

THOMASS. KUHN. The essential tension: selected studies in scientific tradition and change. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
DAVID L. NORTON, Personal destinies: a philosophy of ethical individualism. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1976.
ELIZABETHH ANKINSW OLGAST. Paradoxes of knowledge. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. 214 pages. ISBN: 0-8014-1090-8; BD215. W63.
LAWRENCEH AWORTH.D ecadence and objectivity. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
GEORGES CHLESINGERR.e ligion and scientific method. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1977.
NICHOLASR ESCHER.P eirce's philosophy of science. South Bend, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1978.
FRITHJOFB ERGMANN.O n being free. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.
D. W. HAMLYN. Experience and the growth of understanding. Boston, Mass.: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978
BRUCE AUNE. Reason and action. Holland and the U.S.A.: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1977.     

Book notes

Sacred Place JEAN HOLM, ed. with JOHN BOWKER, 1994 London: Pinter Press 206 pp., £9.99 ISBN 1–85567–105–0

Guide to Libraries in London Compiled by VALERIE MCBURNEY, with the assistance of TONY ANTONIOU & PAUL WILSON, 1995 London: The British Library, Science Reference & Information Service (SRIS) 358 pp., £46.00 ISBN 0–7123–0821–0

Human Rights and the World's Religions LEROY S. ROUNER, ed. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 220 pp., US$10.95 ISBN 0–268–01107–9

Civil Religion and Political Theology LEROY S. ROUNER, ed. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 228 pp., US$10.95 ISBN 0–268–00806‐X

Transcendence and the Sacred ALAN M. OLSEN, LEROY S. ROUNER, eds. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 230 pp., US$10.95 ISBN 0–268–01888‐X

Dispatches from the Front: Theological Engagements with the Secular STANLEY HAUERWAS, 1995 Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press 235 pp., £13.95 ISBN 0–8223–1716–8

Studies in Early Mysticism in the Near and Middle East MARGARET SMITH, 1995 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 276 pp., £9.95 (pb) ISBN 1–85168–098–5     

Reviews

Review in this Article
RUSH RHEES ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY edited by D.Z. Phillips assisted by Mario von der Ruhr , Cambridge University Press
WITTGENSTEIN AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCOURSE by Rush Rhees, edited by D.Z. Phillips , Cambridge University Press
THE SIZE OF CHESTERTON'S CATHOLICISM by David W. Fagerberg , University of Notre Dame Press
BEYOND THE PROSAIC: RENEWING THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT edited by Stratford Caldecott, T&T Clark
THE NEW POLITICS: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY edited by Paul Vallely, SCM Press     

Gödel’s Natural Deduction

This is a companion to a paper by the authors entitled “Gödel on deduction”, which examined the links between some philosophical views ascribed to Gödel and general proof theory. When writing that other paper, the authors were not acquainted with a system of natural deduction that Gödel presented with the help of Gentzen’s sequents, which amounts to Ja?kowski’s natural deduction system of 1934, and which may be found in Gödel’s unpublished notes for the elementary logic course he gave in 1939 at the University of Notre Dame. Here one finds a presentation of this system of Gödel accompanied by a brief reexamination in the light of the notes of some points concerning his interest in sequents made in the preceding paper. This is preceded by a brief summary of Gödel’s Notre Dame course, and is followed by comments concerning Gödel’s natural deduction system.     

Strategic Maneuvering with Dissociation

This paper explores the possibilities for strategic maneuvering of the argumentative technique that Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (The New Rhetoric. A Treatise on Argumentation, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame/London, 1969) called dissociation. After an exploration of the general possibilities that dissociation may have for enhancing critical reasonableness and rhetorical effectiveness, the use of dissociation in the successive stages of a critical discussion is examined. For each stage, first, the dialectical moves that dissociation can be employed in are specified, then, the specific ways in which dissociation contributes to fulfilling the dialectical tasks that are associated with these moves are delineated, and, finally, the rhetorical gain that␣dissociation can bring in the fulfillment of these tasks is discussed. Some general conclusions are drawn for research that aims at understanding the potential of an argumentative technique for strategic maneuvering.     

Perspectives on achieving via interpersonal competition between college men and college women

The beliefs of college students about (a) choices they would make when presented with opportunities to achieve by competing with persons of the other gender and (b) the consequences of such achievement choices were assessed. Drawn from a population of predominantly upper middle-class students, with a minority enrollment of 14.7%, 83 men and 84 women were presented with vignettes which depicted (a) either a challenge for a first violin in an orchestra or a Ping-Pong match at a party and (b) events related to the opportunity to become class valedictorian. Multivariate analytic techniques were employed, and overall the results indicated that men seemed less willing than women to compete against the other gender, and women seemed to view the consequences about such competition as more positive than men. In the violin and Ping-Pong vignettes, men indicated that they, more than women, would be criticized for playing to win and that, if a woman played to win, her male opponent would feel more ridiculed than respected. In the valedictorian vignette, women indicated that men who decided to compete would feel more pleasure than guilt, whereas women who decided to compete would feel more guilt than pleasure. The results are discussed in terms of conceptualizing achievement choices as more situational than static or gender linked.The authors wish to thank David A. Cole, University of Notre Dame, for statistical advice, Chau T. Wong, University of Notre Dame, for assistance in data analysis, Kathleen L. Davis, University of Tennessee, and Michael J. Patton, University of Missouri, for reading and commenting on early versions of this paper and undergraduates from the University of Notre Dame for working on this project.     

Enthusiasm

This paper, here slightly revised, was delivered as the Presidential Address at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Religion, in Charleston, South Carolina, on 4 March 1988. It was written during my tenure of a fellowship in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame.     

REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article:
T.S. ELIOT AND MYSTICISM: The Secret History of Four Quartets by Paul Murray
SHEER JOY: CONVERSATIONS WITH THOMAS AQUINAS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY, by Matthew Fox.
THE GLORY OF THE LORD. V: THE REALM OF METAPHYSICS IN THE MODERN AGE by Hans Hans von Balthasar
BENEDICTINE TAPESTRY by Felicitas Corrigan Darton, Longman & Todd
A VISION TO PURSUE. BEYOND THE CRISIS IN CHRISTIANITY by Keith Ward
THE BOOK OF REVELATION Charles Homer Giblin S.J., Michael Glazier
TERESA OF AVILA by Rowan Williams. 'Outstanding Christian Thinkers' Geoffrey Chapman
GALILEO, BELLARMINE AND THE BIBLE by Richard J Blackwell Notre Dame     

Reviews

Books reviewed Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama by Michael S. Horton (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), + 351 pp.
reviewed by Ben Quash
Peterhouse
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1RD
UK Feminist Theology: Voices from the Past by Ann Loades (Cambridge: Polity, 2001), vi + 216 pp.
reviewed by Susan Abraham
Department of Theology
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778
USA Divine Action & Modern Science by Nicholas Saunders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), xviii + 234 pp.
reviewed by
Larry Chapp
DeSales University
2755 Station Avenue
Center Valley, PA 18036
USA Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac, by Jerome I. Gellman (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003), + 125 pp.
reviewed by
Claire Elise Katz
Department of Philosophy
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice by Timothy P. Jackson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), xix + 229 pp.
reviewed by
Joel James Shuman
Department of Theology
King's College
133 North River Street
Wilkes‐Barre, PA 18711
USA Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou, translated by Ray Brassier (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003), x + 111 pp.
reviewed by
Douglas Harink
The King's University College
9125—50^th Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6B 2H3
Canada After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism by Fergus Kerr (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), viii + 254.
reviewed by
D. Stephen Long
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
2121 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60201
USA Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice by Laurence Paul Hemming (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), x1 + 327 pp.
reviewed by
Cyril O’Regan
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), x + 212 pp.
reviewed by
Herwi Rikhof
Katholieke Theologische Universiteit te Utrecht/Thomas Instituut Utrecht
Postbus 80101 3508 TC
Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS Jesus the Pharisee by Hyam Maccoby (London: SCM Press, 2003), x + 228 pp.
reviewed by
Kristen H. Lindbeck
469 East Olmos Drive
San Antonio, TX 78212
USA     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Social Cognition and Clinical Psychology: A Synthesis edited by Lyn Abramson New York: Guilford, 1988, 372 pp., $40.00 Reviewed by Susan S. Hendrick, Texas Tech University

A Handbook For The Study Of Human Communication: Methods and Instruments For Observing, Measuring, and Assessing Communication Processes edited by Charles H. Tardy Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Company, 1989, 432 pp., $34.50 Reviewed by Howard E. Sypher and John McGrath, University of Kansas

A Tale Of Two Stories: Excursions Into A Narrative Approach To Psychology Geo. S. Howard Notre Dame, Indiana: Academic Publications, 1989, 184 pp. Reviewed by Charles Stefan     

Training for the campus ministry

Conclusion We will finish as we started. The minister preparing himself for work on the campus is like an army chaplain entering the battlefield for the first time. Anticipatory anxiety is to be expected. This anxiety can paralyze efficient work and endanger the integration of the personality, but by careful training this same anxiety can become constructive instead of destructive and a source of great pastoral creativity instead of distress. A minister who is prepared for his task can enter a university community even when it is in great turmoil, without fear. He is free. With a realistic confidence in his abilities, with a sense of inner harmony and, most of all, with trust in the value of his service, he can be a free witness for God, strengthening hope, fulfilling love, and making joy complete.This article will be a chapter inIntimacy: Pastoral Psychological Essays by the Rev. Henry J. M. Nouwen, to be published in the spring, 1969, by Fides Publishers, Inc., Notre Dame, Indiana. (The author wishes to give special thanks to Jim Burtchaell, C.S.C., David B. Burrell, C.S.C., Ralph F. Dunn, C.S.C., and John Gerber, C.S.C., of the University of Notre Dame for their constructive criticism on the first draft of this article.)     

Socrates and psychotherapy

This article examines the basic philosophical ideas of Socrates and how these ideas form a basic part of the philosophical foundation of psychotherapy. His influence is analyzed by observing how Kierkegaard and Nietzsche view his contribution. The controversial thesis of I.F. Stone's recent book,The Trial of Socrates, is used to re-examine the man and his philosophy.He teaches moral philosophy at Notre Dame College in Baltimore, Maryland.     

Understanding: Art and science

The arts and the sciences perform many of the same cognitive functions, both serving to advance understanding. This paper explores some of the ways exemplification operates in the two fields. Both scientific experiments and works of art highlight, underscore, display, or convey some of their own features. They thereby focus attention on them, and make them available for examination and projection. Thus, the Michelson-Morley experiment exemplifies the constancy of the speed of light. Jackson Pollock'sNumber One exemplifies the viscosity of paint. Despite their similarities, science and art might seem to differ in their attitude toward facts. Science is said to adhere to facts; art, to be indifferent to them. Such, I urge, is not the case. Science, like art, often scorns fact to advance understanding through fiction. Thought experiments, I contend, are scientific fictions; literary and pictorial fictions, aesthetic thought experiments.This paper was first published in 1991, in Peter A. French, Theodore Uehling Jr., and Howard Wettstein (eds.),Philosophy and the Arts, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVI, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, pp. 196–208.     

The lay person's understanding of sexual harassment

The literature on how lay people interpret behavior as sexual harassment is reviewed. An attributional model of this interpretation process is proposed. An experiment testing some of the basic postulates of the attribution model is reported. The results of the experiment generally supported the attribution model.This research was supported by a grant from the Jesse Jones Faculty Research Fund, University of Notre Dame. The author expresses gratitude to Jeff DeMartino and Barbara Spengeman for their assistance as experimenters and to J. D. Day for her comments on the stimulus materials.     

Notes on the theology of marriage

The theology of marriage has tended to focus on the establishment and the dissolution of marriages. This is a mistake, for it leaves us with little notion of the day-to-day married life appropriate to our Christian convictions. This situation is the result of two confusions, one about the concepts of love and marriage and one about the interpretative framework in which marriage is understood. In this light five types of marriage theologies are discussed. The claim is made that a theology which sees marriage as a member of the category of special relations, with its central interpretative metaphor, fidelity, not only brings out the proper moral significance of marriage but also offers the most theologically appropriate formulation.Mr. Bondi is a Dissertation Fellow writing on Fidelity and Agape: Special Relations in Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556.