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...symptom of this interest is a magazine called Theology Digest, to be published three times a year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which are buried in the pages of the world's theological journals...
...following page. Below the figure of Christ enthroned in a huge capital A is the opening of a hymn which begins, "Aspiciens alonge, ecce, video dei potentiam" (As I look from afar, behold, I see the power of God). The square music notation is a style still used for Gregorian chant...
...Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, its Gregorian-style chorus and skirling reeds sounding massive and almost pagan...
Author Griffin writes in the first person in diary form. His hero is a young American musicologist in France who arrives at a Benedictine monastery to study Gregorian chant. Author Griffin did the same thing, admits that Devil is at least an "intellectual history." His hero is no Roman Catholic, but by the rules of the order he must live as a monk so long as he stays at the monastery. This is not easy. His unheated stone cell is bitterly cold, the food is execrable, and he must share such work as cleaning the primitive lavatories. Moreover, his brain...
...years ago, it was Sept. 2 in the realm of King George II. Next morning, by Act of Parliament, it was Sept. 14. England, 170 years after most other European nations, at last switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar...