Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHOSTAKOVICH: QUARTETS 4 AND 8 (Mercury). Shostakovich's late chamber works are better than his late symphonies. The eighth quartet, a secular requiem for the victims of Fascism, was written in 1960 and is daringly monochromatic: three of the five movements are largo, and the often-repeated main theme changes only from a moan into a sigh. Even the joyful sections seem to shift into a remembrance of gaiety long past. A subtle performance by the Borodin String Quartet, which the U.S.S.R. will send on a first visit to the U.S. in October...
Conversations with Spirits. At the age of 57, after seeing a vision of Christ, Swedenborg abandoned his secular pursuits for theology, and his religious writings run to 30 fat volumes. His thinking was decidedly un-Lutheran. Rejecting the traditional doctrine of the Trinity, he taught that Christ alone was God. Man, he argued, was not saved by faith alone, as Luther taught, but by seeking natural perfection through service to the world. Swedenborg had almost daily visions of heaven and hell, which he described at great length in his theological writings. He also wrote of his frequent conversations with spirits...
...such ideas are anathema. In a newly published book called My People Is the Enemy (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $3.95), he labels the theory for what it is: sectarianism, "no less than it is where a church is established on grounds of class or race or language or any other secular criteria...
...Rome by the cautiously conservative Apostolic Internuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami. In April the Jesuit General, Father Jean Baptiste Janssens, ordered the three Jesuit editors to leave the staff of De Nieuwe Linie because he could not agree with the magazine's editorial views. Other journals-Catholic, Protestant and secular-hurried to the defense of De Nieuwe Linie, and a number of Dutch Jesuits have openly protested Father Janssens' blunt handling of the case. Two of the Jesuits have ignored the order, still show up for work at the magazine every...
Where Novak is most eloquent--as in his chapters on "God in the Colleges" and "The Secular Campus," which speak with an intensity that could only come from personal frustration and irritation--he leaves too many ideas dangling, too many problems unconsidered. In these sections particularly I wish he had stated in more rational and specific terms what needs to be done. Had he translated his anger into recommendations, the result would have had meaning for all doubting Thomases as well as for Catholics...