of the house was taken and decided in favor of shucking off A Fine Drama some of their traditions by dancing. I replied that I could not participate with them in the evening's recrea- JOURNALS OF JOHN D. LEE 1846-47 81 1859 tion from the fact that I did not EDITED BY CHARLES KELLY, INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES S. consider it a time to dance but a PETERSON. : UNIVERSITY OF PRESS, 1984. day with me of deep solemnity and 244 PP. $17.95 prayer for the recovery of the health of my file leader and father by Kerry Bate [Brigham Young] who this day has been near yielding up the ghost. The once remarked casually to an and that we would reverence what Having made those remarks Ileft acquaintance that John D. Lee he stood for and believed in. the room and entered the place I story of I was an uncle of mine by mar- The earliest and most concise where the afflicted lay." 1 Lee is true riage. It was a cheap piece of brag- criticism I have read of Lee was One can easily appreciate the 1 gadocio, because any nineteenth- written by Thomas D. Brown, a effect this situation would have on Greek tragedy, century Mormon who had nineteen man whom Lee correctly prophes- others. The crowd listens to Mormon wives is likely the uncle of three- ied would apostatize from the lengthy sermons. Tired of business 1 quarters of the population of Utah, Mormon church. Brown was with a and planning for the pioneer trek, t style if not the ancestor to over half of group of Indian missionaries called someone suggests that they hold a the state through, in Lee's case, his to southern Utah. He wrote in 1855 dance, about the only recreation sixty children. that Lee was officious; "he has available to the pioneers. A vote is But the story of John D. Lee is abu[n]dance of dreams, visions taken, and that vote is passed with more than the story of someone and revelations, from which he enthusiasm. Then Lee gets up sanc- who was explosively successful in instructs, reproves & governs." He timoniously and self-righteously obeying the commandment to mul- accused Lee of being an eaves- throws a wet blanket over the tiply and replenish the earth. The dropper, of spying and then using whole evening, not so subtly sug- story of Lee is a true Greek what he learned-representing it as gesting they are shallow and have tragedy, adapted to nineteenth- revelation. He says Lee writes let- no loyalty. He walks out. This inci- century Mormonism. ters accusing others of bad faith. dent demonstrates Lee's personal- He had risen almost like the Lee also accuses some of "hypoc- ity in two ways: first it shows his phoenix, from ashes. His early risy, blackness of heart & evil arrogance and insensitivity to childhood was one of abuse and speaking, and said he himself others. Second it reminds us of the misery. His mother died when he would not hesitate to steal from the fanatical bond he had with Brigham was very young; his father was an gentiles who had so often robbed Young. There is something almost alcoholic who sent him to live with the saints." Brown suggests Lee pitiful about an adult calling a man a sadistic aunt while that father was a coward and objects to Lee's his own age "Father." Perhaps no eventually drifted away to parts handling of his position as judge, other.Mormon took the kind of unknown. Lee struggled against overruling the bishop and over- sealing Lee had to Brigham Young this pitiful environment and man- charging for materials he sold. quite so seriously. aged through hard work, persever- "Weekly there has been some dif- Wherever Lee went there were ance, and total dedication to ficulty between him and some of always hard feelings. In fact, he become one of the few Mormon the settlers," Brown concludes, "his seems to have quarreled with giants, leaving an enormous pos- excessive greed, Selfishness, and almost everyone: William Clayton terity, a mass of biographical jealousy, being the cause, many over prices in a store, "Bro. material, and a name that will live have left and will do." Maginnis" who insulted Lee, Sister on so long as there is interest in This is a remarkable statement Allen whom Lee reproves, his Mormonism and Utah. to find in the official missionary second wife, Nancy Bean (my And yet he has lived on in record. It was this kind of impres- lamented aunt) who writes Lee an infamy-an ironic ending for a man sion that Lee made on so many of "insolent" letter, Brother Arnold, whose tragic flaw was unquestion- those whom Lee had to live with over that man's "selfishness, [and] ing obedience. By being literally that resulted in his sad ending, for for his hard spirit." Even old Mr. what so many of his compatriots as years went by, Lee, a partici- Neff, who "but a few days [ago] and coreligionists only attempted pant in the Mountain Meadows stated that his money should not to be, Lee became the most Massacre, became associated in go to support the whores of the 12." pathetic of victims and the most the mind of an increasingly hostile An especially trying time was stereotyped of villains. At the end community as not only a partici- had in Winter Quarters because the he lost his belief and was con- pant, but as the man deserving the pioneers fought all summer over demned and executed. full community venom for that the division of land, with almost all Probably no single person in crime. And we see many of the of them united in their feeling that nineteenth-century Mormonism characteristics which led to Lee's Lee was greedy and taking advan- emerges so clearly as a real man alienation from his neighbors in tage of them. Lee even has hard from his letters and journals as the earlier journal published by words with his first wife, Aggatha does John D. Lee. And his whole Kelly. Ann. Lee records in detail anything life was lived and recorded in order For instance, under the date of said favorable to himself (as, for that we would see him as he saw February 17;1847, after a lengthy instance, the defense by Samuel himself, that we would understand, entry, Lee writes: "About 11 a vote Gully of Lee's conduct), and is

40 SUNSTONE vituperative against his "enemies." for the Mountain Meadows Massa- attention to the early Saints' pro- Where possible these quarrels cre. By the time of the second jour- clivities for alcohol and other pos- are mediated by Brigham Young. nal Lee is seeing traitors every- sible sins, overall his volume is Even when Lee runs an errand to where, and he dreams of rivers of well edited and the marginal notes the Mormon Battalion and makes blood. The last part of the book is are helpful guides. himself so obnoxious by "threaten- made up of letters and fragments We are grateful that this book, ing to cut their infernal throats" of letters from Lee, who to the end issued originally in an edition of that the Mormon leadership of that kept a sharp eye on his financial only 250 copies, is now available to battalion "thretened to put me affairs. the general public really for the under guard," he reports the details There are a good many important first time. Still, we regret that the to Young and wins Young's appro- insights in this book about John D. published and unpublished letters val (that prophetic figure laments Lee, Brigham Young, and many and diaries of Lee and his wives the fact he does not have an arm other contemporary Mormons. could not be all gathered together long enough to reach the battalion Even Lee's anger and hostility help and a new edition given us which Brigham and suggests Lee should have us better understand the conflicts, would put all of this in coherent must have taken the heads off from his the times, and the personalities. and chronological order. opposition). A lengthy introduction to this Until that point, we have a good tired of his Yet one can't help but feel that book by Charles S. Peterson gives deal of the story in print, both in constant baby- Young tired of this constant baby- a sketch of the editor, Charles these journals and in the more sitting of Lee, and perhaps that Kelly. Kelly was much like Lee, an extensive journals edited by sitting of was one of the reasons Lee was angry bigot raised in a cruel envi- Brooks and Cleland in 1955. Lee's Lee not allowed to go to the Salt Lake ronment. And like Lee he accom- final hope may yet be realized: he valley with the first group of pio- plished much. Kelly's editorial work will be remembered and under- neers. Perhaps, too, this explains on this volume is praiseworthy. stood by those who care to know why Lee was sent so far away from When he published these two jour- about a man whose life was fine, if Salt Lake City as a colonizer. So nals, for the years 1846-47 and tragic, drama. many of Young's other friends 1859, he thought he was bringing stayed in the valley or returned out the only surviving John D. Lee there after repeated calls. journals, and the edition was so The 1859 journal is most disap- limited, it is doubtful he made any KERRY BATE is the Utah state pointing because pages have been money on it. While Kelly makes an housing specialist for the div- torn out, and it begins in the middle especial attempt through marginal ision of community of a sentence, with Lee on the run notations and footnotes to draw development.

has an unbendable will, however, and stands up to Staver until the Purity and Passion very end. He also slowly, oh so slowly, learns lessons about what it means to be human. SUMMER FIRE A WOMAN OF DESTINY Thayer is good at setting the BY DOUGLAS H. THAYER BYORSONSCOTTCARD scene-descriptions of cutting hay, ORION BOOKS, 1983 BERKLEY BOOKS, 1984 irrigating, butchering beef, and the 258 PP. $3.95,713 PP. rest of life on a ranch seem to come from experience. He also by Scott Abbott creates memorable characters (my favorite is Mrs. Cummings, the cook and laundrywoman at the ouglas Thayer's Summer their cabin, Owen conscientiously ranch, once a Mormon, and after a Fire and Scott Card's A , says his prayers and tries to be an lifetime of experience broad, warm, D Woman of Destiny are as example. and human). different as two Mormon novels From the beginning Owen finds could be, and in their difference an adversary in Staver, the ranch But good characters and vivid they tell an illuminating story. First foreman. Staver has an enormous setting aside, the novel bothers the the novels themselves and then the scar on his chest, received as a hell out of me. story they tell together. soldier in the Korean War, and a I read it in Louisville during a In Summer Fire, Thayer's first scarred psyche as well. He kills conference on Twentieth-Century novel after twenty years of short thoughtlessly (the ranch fences are Literature: the first half in the early stories, a sixteen-year-old boy hung with animals he has killed; morning hours after seeing Danny named Owen recounts his expe- pools in the river stand lifeless and the Deep Blue Sea, one of riences on a Nevada ranch where after his dynamiting). He drives the winners in the Louisville he and his cousin Randy work for himself day and night, as if pos- Actor's Theatre's Humana the summer. Both boys come from sessed by a death wish. And he Festival-a brutal, violent, hope- Provo, both are LDS, both work harasses Owen mercilessly, aided less, obscene, and, in the middle hard at their new job; but while by the boy's straightforward self- act, ethereal confrontation between Randy learns to play poker and righteousness, naivete, and pro- a man and a woman in the Bronx; pins up Playboy centerfolds in pensity to costly mistakes. Owen the second half the night after hear-

SUNSTONE 41 ing Robert Coover read a wild, poli- came above the fence. I turned. Summer Fire bothers the hell tical, orgiastic, and hilarious scene "Stay around, Owen. " out of the reader, as it is meant to. from his novel The Public "No thanks. " It strikes close to home in its por- Burning. In my hotel room, recov- "Come on. You might have a ranch trayal of sheltered self- ering from the violence and the bril- some day and want to breed righteousness but at the same time liance of contemporary theater and horses. " finds strength in the weakness it prose fiction, I read and read, I kept walking away. has just disclosed. exhausted, increasingly put off by "Hey, Owen." A Woman of Destiny, "the epic what I read, but unable to put down I kept walking. saga of a woman who dared to the story of Owen, a sheltered "They're animals, " I said. search the world for love. For sixteen-year-old boy from Provo, "What did you say, Owen?" Pride, For Passion, For Her Family. for whom a rather normal summer "They're animals!" I shouted it. From the inferno of industrial working on a Nevada ranch proves "Okay, Boy Scout. You go back England to the shining promise of a an extraordinary experience. and get things all cleaned up." new America, Dinah Kirkham rose t From the beginning the style irri- "Hey, V-i-r-g-i-n-i-a." to free herself and her children I The tated me, at least I thought it was I kept walking, listening to Frank from poverty's grim reign, and maddening the style. Imagine over two and Staver laughing; the rancher reach for the freedom that is every style is a hundred pages of short sentences wasn't laughing. I walked into the woman's dream. . . . A woman of like the following: tool room and turned the hose on courage. . . to heal a divided consummate for- full force to wash out the dirt. family. A woman of compassion 1 Above them I saw the North Star. Reproduction wasn't obscene; it ( mal expression of I'd read a book called The North . . . to forgive the father who had was wonderful. I'd studied insect abandoned her, and the brother Owen's Star. It was my favorite star. The and animal reproduction in my Chinese, Greek, Phonecian, Viking, who tried to rule in his stead. A I personality biology classes. I'd seen films I'd woman of beauty. . . to marry a I Roman, Elizabethan and Spanish read An Introduction to Conception sailors had all used it to guide man whose words would move t and Birth and Life's Chain. Adam and millions, whose love could never be them. Columbus used it to find Eve had to reproduce, which was America. The valley breeze blew hers alone. A Woman of Destiny what sex was for mainly. Brother . . . a passionate journey that will against me. I liked the ranch. I Anderson had pictures of his eight wasn't homesick. I listened for sweep you into an unforgettable children in his office. Everybody in woman's life!" coyotes, but I didn't hear any. I the whole world had to be con- turned and climbed down, and With this uncompromisingly bad ceived. Reproduction was a com- rhetoric ("epic saga"!) and with a walked back to the cabin. mandment. It wasn't a joke. After I put on my paiamas and flashy green, white, and red cover brushed my teeth, I said my pray- Owen is so damned sure of him- featuring the said "woman of ers. I prayed for my mother and destiny," Scott Card's new novel self! He has read a hundred intro- tries to sell itself. Fortunately, the grandmother, and Helen and Mrs. ductory books (including Woman Johnson and Mrs. Cummings, and cover sells the book short (as have without Hope-about prostitu- many others advertised down to for Dale. I prayed for Randy, Stan, tion, Those Who Got Caught- Frank, and Staver. I prayed Randy about criminals and prisons, the supermarket crowds-D.M. and I could be good examples. (pp. Thomas, for example, left the U.S. Venereal Disease: A Doctor in shock after seeing what 57-58.) Talks to Young Men, Boy's Life, etc.). He's had the perfect seminary American book packagers had Of course short sentences should done to his White Hotel). have been no surprise. Thayer's teacher in Brother Anderson. He Untortunately, this review will stories are written in the same realizes that other people aren't also sell the book short. I find it style (and there was a writer perfect, but he's willing to help impossible to recreate anything named Hemingway). But so many them be more like himself. His cou- resembling the color and sweep of of them at once! However, in the sin Randy, a year older and a real Card's 700 pages. The heroine, midst of my frustration I realized man of the world compared to Dinah Kirkham, grows up in early that style alone was not respon- Owen, winces again and again as nineteenth-century, industrial sible for my anguish. Passages like Owen makes solemn announce- Manchester, England; and the first the following, as clipped as the ments of belief to the scoffing third of the story could be straight rest, revealed a more serious ranch hands. from Dickens. John Kirkham, the source of irritation: Once I realized how much Owen father, a failed businessman and got under my skin, I could turn The mare stood still watching the sometime painter, deserts his barn. The bottom half of the door back to the maddening style and family in the novel's first chapter. swung open, and Frank came out. see in it a consummate formal In the years that follow, Dinah, her Staver led Black Prince out on a expression of Owen's personality: mother Anna, and two brothers halter rope. Frank closed the door. uncomplicated, convinced, inces- suffer unimaginable poverty and Black Prince kept jerking his head. sant, direct, intolerable-and degradation. Eventually the oldest Staver unclipped the halter rope. strong. Despite the nonhuman side son, Robert, becomes an engineer "Okay, boy. " of his personality, Owen works and then a wealthy builder of Frank and Staver walked over to hard, is more than kind to Mrs. locomotives. Charles, the youngest the fence and climbed up. The Cummings, and gamely puts up child, gets an education at the rancher stood by me. Frank lit a with intolerable ridicule and hands of a crazy old man and rises cigarette and held the match for harassment. And, over the course to a fine position as an accountant. Staver. Black Prince neighed, the of the long summer, he begins to Dinah also gets on in the world, her sound high and fierce like a emerge as an almost normal fortune assured by an attempted scream. He reared up; his head sixteen-year-old. rape and a hasty marriage to a

42 SUNSTONE man she knows to be no match for and moon and stars all within her imaginations but also as represen- herself. body, the leaves of the trees so tative of two cultures (arising, sur- Providentially, Heber Kimball large that she could stand between prisingly enough, in a church which breaks with apostolic vigor into them and watch them grow to infin- prides itself on "one Lord, one this idyll to claim Anna, Charlie, ity so that she could touch the stars faith, one baptism"). Let's start and Dinah for the Lord. A few lines that dwelt within them, too. "I am, " with swearing, drinking, and sex: describing Charlie's baptism exem- said the voice. So slowly. And Owen doesn't; Dinah and the Lord's plify much of what is good about Dinah answered, silently, "I know." annointed do. Thayer deftly gets the novel: Visions are not cheap, however, around the ranch hands' inevitable Five minutes later they were and the new destiny Dinah embra- profanity by reporting through standing in the cold water of the ces leads her through tragedy to Owen that someone has "taken the Rochdale Canal hoping that no Nauvoo, Illinois. There she begins, Lord's name in vain." Card's apos- barge would come along till they in a very odd combination of fiction tles sprinkle priesthood ordinances were through. Brother Heber said and history, to live the life of Eliza with heart-felt oaths. Where a few the words and dunked him under R. Snow, eventually one of Joseph beers cause near tragedy in Thay- There the water. Charlie came up sputter- Smith's wives. The story's narrator, er's book, wine still has a place at ing and Heber laughed and said, 0. Kirkham, claims his account orthodox tables in Nauvoo. Owen's Dinah, in an "By damn, Charlie Kirkham, 1'11 bet reconstructs the life of his great protected adolescent perspective odd combination you're the first man ever to come aunt Dinah, whose diary he ran on sex has him obsessively cover- out of this water cleaner than he across while researching the life of ing himself with clean underwear of fiction and his- went in!" Then Heber wrapped him her brother Charles Kirkham, the and athletic supporters; and his tory, begins to in a great bear hug. "Brother author of "Let us all press on" and refusal to watch Black Prince ser- Charlie, " Heber said, "Welcome to other "mediocre hymns." The "bru- vice a mare proves that, contrary live the life of the fellowship of the Saints. " Then tally frank journal. . . is now kept to his words ("Reproduction wasn't Eliza R. Snow they climbed out of the water under lock and key in the church obscene; it was wonderful") sex is together and went home to warm archives, where no historian may obscene for him. In contrast, Dinah up and dry off. "And I hope we can read it." In the acknowledgments at discovers a warm sensuality in her talk your mother into a few inches the end of the book the author (not marriage bed, desires Joseph of medicinal wine, " Heber said. the narrator) thanks "helpful Smith physically as much as spir- "Water's so cold it damn near cut employees at the LDS Church itually, and finally, as an old me in two up the middle." Archives" and "the Charles Banks woman, sleeps with an aged Card's depiction of Dinah's conver- and Kirkham Family Organization." -* Brigham Young in a delightfully sion is likewise so intensely human How are we to read this? Did Card, tender scene. that it achieves transcendence doing research on Charles Kirk- The divergent attitudes concern- (echoing Parfey Pratt's wedding of ham, come across Eliza Snow's ing swearing, drinking, and sex, sexuality and the Holy Ghost in journal and surreptitiously copy it? meaningless enough when taken by "Intelligence and Affection"). After Does Dinah Kirkham's story, from themselves, gain importance when hearing Heber Kimball speak about the time she reaches Nauvoo until seen as the product of opposing Joseph Smi\h and the restored the new century dawns, represent a world views. Owen's adolescent gospel of Jesus Christ, Dinah finds truer, more intimate history of sureness, his short declarative herself able for the first time to Snow than we have had until now? beliefs, his valiant efforts to keep respond sexually to her husband. or is the whole thing a fiction, one his distance from the flames of sin, In the aftermath she burns with step further from the unknowable all represent a negative righteous- spiritual fire as well: facts than is Samuel Taylor's ness. On the back cover, in fact, The feeling grew and grew until equally well-written retelling of the stands the telling question: "How she could not bear it. The light also same events in Nightfall at Nau- close can you come to the fire grew within her, until at last she voo? Although the tensions without being burned?" Card could see it, a whiteness spreading between fiction and history in the inverts the image, for the firey from her to fill the room. She heard novel bother me (and maybe they tongues which burn in Dinah are her words become audible, and she are meant to), a more important manifestations of the Holy Ghost. finally realized that the angel would historical point remains. The question here is: "How far can not come and stand outside her in The times and characters Card you get from the fire and still be a the air, that the angel would be skillfully creates and recreates productive, loving human being?" within her, and her own lips would here-nineteenth-century Manches- Where Owen and his church com- speak the message she was meant ter and Nauvoo, Heber Kirnball, mang a begrudging respect, Dinah to hear. "I love you, I hear you." Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, the and her church inspire love. Owen And then the whiteness grew too Kirkhams, and all the rest- may indeed keep himself clean. bright and she closed her eyes and represent a world we have left Dinah helps change the world with almost immediately felt herself drift behind. A reader could scarcely her wisdom and passion and toward sleep, felt the whiteness imagine a starker contrast than poetry. drowse over her like endless sheets that between the nineteenth- All this is not to say that Card's and blankets to warm her, and she century Mormons of Card's novel book is better than Thayer's. The heard her own voice fall silent and and the almost contemporary two authors merely hold their mir- the other voice at last speak in Mormons of Thayer's. rors up to different centuries. answer, speak from those perfect Placing the two works side by lips only one thing: "I am," said the side we find differences which take SCOTT ABBOTT is assistant voice so slowly, and Dinah lay in on an interesting cast when seen professor of German at Van- wonder 811 night, sleeping but feel- not only as inevitable in the pro- derbilt University in Nashville, ing herself awake forever, the sun ducts of two separage creative Tennessee.

SUNSTONE 43 :I1 I MORALITIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE regular fear of the small, straiaht- theme in the literature he survevs forward English word): Chaptei but fails to recognize when it BY JOHN SABIN1 AND MAURY One, "through a (dark) glass finally calls itself into question. The SILVER clearly": Magic Spectacles and the third essay, however, the longest OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1982. Motif of the Mimetic Mantic in of the book, is much stronger. It's 238 PP., $6.95. Postwar German Literature; Chap- basic premise is simple-war toys ter Two, The Symbolical Limp and and violent games teach children to -T. E. Shoemaker the Secular Postwar Seer; Chapter wage war. Besides quoting from an Three, The Terrible Toys: A View impressive group of German nov- This book makes two arguments, from Postwar German Literature at els, Keele uses a broad array of both of which should be of interest the Process of Play-Time Psycho- material (from the history of to Latter-day Saints. One is an logical Pre-Conditioning for Dicta- games, from sociological studies of attack on the use of behavioral torship, War, and Holocaust; Chap- games and war, from sports books, science as a philosophical method. ter Four, Reptiles and Robots: from magazine accounts) in his Mathematical "Skinnerisms" shed Minacious Machinery and its argument. He is aware that he can- little light on the complex world of Automaton-Slaves; Chapter Five, not prove a connection between toy contemporary people and their Ethics in Embryo: Abortion and the guns and war, but he goes a long struggle with the moralities of Problem of Morality in Postwar way toward convincing us of the everyday life. Mathematical codes German Literature. Chapters Two possibility. Keele's final essay only tell us what, not why. The and Four are the shortest, and to deals with West German views on result is confusion and moral my mind least interesting of the abortion. He makes the surprising uncertainty. book, so I shall limit my remarks to discovery that authors like Paul The other argument is the need the essays on magic spectacles, Schalluck, Walser, Boll, and Grass to return to the use of ordinary terrible toys, and abortion.The first (all of whom have actively sup- language, including the word sin in essay begins by pointing out that ported attempts to repeal anti- our discussions, analyses, and Wolfgang Borchert, Martin Walser, abortion statutes like Paragraph redefinitions of human moral frail- and Heinrich Boll all create charac- 218 of the German legal code) seem ties. Coupling ordinary words as ters whose metaphorical glasses to oppose abortion in their fiction generally understood with logic allow them to see more clearly and poetry. (A writer he does not and grammar restores to philoso- than their non-spectacled com- include, Karin Struck, has written phical discussions universal mean- rades. With their "visionary optics" an entire novel-Lieben-about ings and powerful generalizations. they dig up memories, responsibili- the consequences of abortion, and The authors not only tell us this but ties, guilt, and pain their fellows would be an important addition to provide ample examples of how would just as soon repress, and the analysis, both as a woman and this is done. They postulate a var- thus effect a reassessment and a recent contributor to the debate.) iety of ways (as a sin, as a motive, overcoming of the past. The essay In dealing with these authors who and as an emotion) that envy, for continues with an exposition of oppose anti-abortion laws but who example, may manifest itself in Gunter Grass's Dog Years (an write against abortion, Keele sug- human behavior. Because the book excellent novel), in which one of gests that the question is one of avoids sectarian moralizing, no the narrators and main characters individual vs, legislated morality. Mormon need fear that the book's markets maaic alasses which allow message might sow seeds of apos- children to iewtheir parents' most tasy. To the contrary, on the compromising acts during the Nazi "highway to perfection," Mormons, years. Keele does a good job with GOD AMONG US: THE GOSPEL of all Christians, are least likely to details, especially with reference to PROCLAIMED recognize the danger signs of the how Grass subtly relates his own "seven deadly sins." The message fiction to these glasses. But when it BY EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX just might make the journey less comes to the auestion of whv the CROSSROAD PUBLISHING CO.. 1983. perilous. glasses are magical, he misses the $12.95,258 pp. point. The solution lies rather in -Keith E. Norman Grass's abiding skepticism (he once said he was skeptical even of There are few contemporary THE APOCALYPTIC VISION: his skepticism). To identify one's theologians or churchmen who can A THEMATIC EXPLORATION OF own fiction as magic glasses match the credentials of this book's POSTWAR GERMAN LITERATURE through which postwar Germany author. Of Catholic theologians, his can clearly see its past is to ignore public reputation is surpassed per- BY ALAN FRANK KEELE one's own subjective, skewed, haps only by the more controver- STUDIA HUMANITATIS, 1983, prejudiced, incomplete view of the sial Hans Kung. But as a scholar in $19.00, 129 pp. world. Grass comments on the his field, Christology, Edward -Scott Abbott questionableness of postwar fiction Schillebeeckx is without peer. (including his own highly rational Readers who want the main course Alan Keele, a BYU professor, work) by identifying it with the should go straight to his magnum divides his short book into five irrationality of the magic glasses opus, Jesus: An Experiment in essays, the titles of which reveal and the numerology and astrology Christology. the author as a sufferer of of the narrators. He asks then in GodAmong Us is the Maxwell's alliterative disease (the the end: What are the irrational appetizer-a collection of mostly essays themselves further betray underpinnings of our rationality? sermons or lectures on New Tes- chronic "big-word syndromew-a Keele alerts us to a prevailing tament or creedal themes. The dis-

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