Sunday, March 02, 2003

This critique of a book review is awesome!!! The book is Colleen Carroll's The New Faithful which I have read and enjoyed. The review is from a "Jesuit" "Catholic" "Theologian" and is simply "Crap". Another example of the tired, pathetic writing of 60's leftovers that made me so sick of America and Commonweal. It is this type of nonsense that is "narrow" not traditionalism. The one true point in the review is that the group Carroll writes about is a sub-group. Most young people are not jumping on the orthodox bandwagon, but that is because most young people are not very involved in religion to begin with. Carroll says as much in her book, pointing out that she is not writing about the majority of young people but about a trend among many of them. My favorite part of the review is this: "Other theologians have confirmed to me that their graduate students are familiar with “conservative” authors, Catholic apologists like Scott Hahn, Mark Shea and Patrick Madrid, whose works their professors wouldn’t dream of reading." In this one sentence, the Jesuit both confirms Carroll's main point in the book (which he is trying to debunk) as well as shows liberal professors to be narrow, close-minded dopes who refuse to read work that might challenge their pre-conceived ideas. I thought Jesuits were supposed to be smart? .

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