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...theology, and who in 1961 formulated their principles in a joint volume of essays called Revelation as History. Although not widely known in the U.S., Pannenberg has lectured at the University of Chicago, Harvard and Claremont, and three of his major works are in the process of translation into English. Just published is an introduction to Pannenberg's thinking called Theology as History (Harper & Row; $6). Edited by Theologians James Robinson and John Cobb of Claremont, the book contains a long, learned introduction by Robinson, an essay by Pannenberg, and critical commentaries by three leading U.S. theologians...
...Tour, though a native of Picardy, cannily proclaimed himself an English painter. Pastel portraiture was all the rage. Only seven years before, the Italian pastelist Rosalba Carriera had visited Paris and found duchesses and princesses imploring her to do their portraits. La Tour* prudently devoted himself entirely to pastels...
...cruel to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. In his day-the latter half of the 19th century-he was an enormously popular writer. Hardly anyone knows him today except as the sick mind who, like the Marquis de Sade, lent his name to the glossary of psychiatric terms. This first English-language biography by a journeyman translator and biographer (Pushkin, Brighter than a Thousand Suns) tries hard to deal coolly with its subject, but Sacher-Masoch was such a bumbler that the reader cannot take him seriously. The poor fellow was really a kind of romantic, who always hoped to find...
...most popular course offered this summer is apparently Fine Arts S-76, the History of the Cinema, which is attended by more than 200 people. Also drawing more than 200 students is Julian L. Moynihan's English S-163, Forms of Modern Fiction. And at 8 a.m. each morning about 160 students have gotten up to hear Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, lecture on the major American authors...
...after 21 years of ordination, to hear the church say it is "aided in understanding the gospel by the testimony of the church from earlier ages and from many lands." The Westminster Confession fits in its original 1646 context. To see behind Westminster the struggle of the Scots and English for political and ecclesiastical control encourages a new approach to politics today...