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...reader to become involved in Jocelin's suffering, but the requirements of allegory constantly work against complexity of character. In order to generalize Jocelin's high, spiritual pre-occupations, Golding leaves out all but the formal vestiges of Christianity. Like Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral the priest uses paternal, beatific language; but Christ, salvation, and sin are carefully left out. Golding merely gives Jocelin the symptoms of faith, and leaves it to the reader to conjure up some kind of psychological reality from such cryptic sommentary as "Joy, fire, joy." Furthermore the artificial machinery of the allegory...
...concluding chapters, where the priest's doubts bring him close to madness, Golding's allegorical purpose at last follows him to expand the book's emotional breadth. By now he has dramatized the two opposite extremes and must show the priest's mind gaining complexity in order to illustrate a resolution...
...chance, a Roman Catholic walked into Sunday worship at the Church of the Divine Wisdom in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he would feel right at home. The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western church; the liturgy he celebrated, except for the use of English instead of Latin, would be almost identical with the Roman Mass. But the worshippers at the church are not Roman Catholics, or even High-Church Anglicans; they are members of the little-known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church...
Founder of the Western Rite was the Rev. Joseph Overbeck, a scholarly German priest who converted to Orthodoxy in 1865. Overbeck had only a handful of followers, but he prepared a revision of the Roman missal and outlined a theological defense of the Western Rite idea that eventually convinced Orthodox church leaders. In 1926, the Orthodox Church of Poland accepted the allegiance of some Polish Catholics, who were allowed to keep the Mass and most of their liturgical customs. In the U.S., most of the Western Rite Orthodox belong to the Syrian Antiochian Archdiocese, which drew up rules...
...blurb, Author Westheimer "drew heavily" on his own years as a P.W. in both Italy and Germany, but the only sign of his insight is that all his characters can say "prisoner-of-war camp" in Italian. The cast, as in all prison-camp stories, includes a good-guy priest, a psychopath, a bragging coward and a German spy, and Westheimer makes a bad job worse by being one of those fantastically clever writers who tell everyone's age by saying how old his face looks younger than. Despite such tricks, or perhaps because of them, the book reads...