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MODELS OF THE CHURCH, by Avery Dulles (Doubleday; 216 pages; $5.95). Unusually popular for a work of theology, this book is already in its fourth printing. Jesuit Dulles, a leading U.S. Catholic theologian, writes cogently on the pros and cons of five current theories of ecclesiology (the theology of the nature of the church), making the proceedings accessible to laymen. Because ecclesiology underlies many other current debates in Christianity-such as ecumenism, authority and hierarchy, secular v. sacred mission-the book is important. In particular, Dulles rejects the "Institutional" model that characterized Catholicism until recent years, while seeing some value...
...contends that the earth was visited by superintelligent extraterrestrial beings in prehistoric times, to The Secret Life of Plants, which argues that plants think, are capable of extrasensory perception, and even possess souls. Now another such literary endeavor has made its way onto the bestseller lists: The Bermuda Triangle (Doubleday; $7.95) by Charles Berlitz, grandson of the language-school founder. Like its predecessors, Triangle takes off from established facts, then proceeds to lace its theses with a hodgepodge of half-truths, unsubstantiated reports and unsubstantial science...
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MIDNIGHT is A PLACE. 287 pages. Viking. $6.95. ARABEL'S RAVEN. 118 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters...
...LITTLE TRAIN and THE LITTLE FIRE ENGINE. Both by Graham Greene and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Both 48 pages. Doubleday. $4.95 each. Novelist Greene has elsewhere paid tribute to the influence of Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten on his work. These two more or less charming British classics, first published in 1946 when Greene was 42, are self-consciously linked to a whole school of children's homilies about wayward tugboats, ambitious trains and old snow shovels that have cruelly been retired too soon. In the first, a small, bored little engine chuffs away from the town...