Word: pauls
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...John Paul is seeking to establish the certainty of faith that in the eyes of many Catholics has been confused and endangered by all the liberal theological theorizing since Vatican II. In the effort to define clearly what is and is not Catholic doctrine, the isolation of Kung is particularly important because he has publicly questioned or denied outright the creed that Christ is eternally "one in substance" with God the Father, the belief that the church is based on an apostolic succession that goes back to St. Peter and the sacrificial nature of the Mass...
...gift for the short, sharp, descriptive phrase. The Apostle Paul appears as "a deformed wanderer with the label of Tarsus on his baggage." Lutheran Richard John Neuhaus marvels at Taylor's way of playing with a single word: "He whispers it and then he shouts it; he pats, pinches and probes it," each new sentence adding a shade of meaning. Taylor, a veteran community activist and a nationally influential churchman, has been at Concord Baptist for 31 years. He is widely regarded, with justice, as the dean of the nation's black preachers...
...MARRIED MAN by Piers Paul Read Lippincott; 264 pages...
Such mid-life crises threaten to become as much a cliché in literature as they are in life. Yet Piers Paul Read, 38, puts a lot of his native English on this familiar pitch. He knows, as most chroniclers of Me Decade shenanigans do not, that private acts have public consequences; in the great tradition of British novelists, he draws society as a delicate, vast spider web, tuned to vibrate at the lightest footfall or breath of scandal. In addition, Read is a self-described "serious Catholic" and scales this novel to dimensions familiar to readers of Graham Greene...
...less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets his due and not a scintilla more. - Paul Gray...