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alaskafox
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Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2006 09:34 pm |
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Wow, go away for a few months and come back and everything's changed!
I am going to hope I post correctly.
I'm reading a book by David Gibson on Pope Benedict XVI. Has anyone else read this book, or, more to the point, has anyone read anything by David Gibson?
Thanks.
Debi
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mg57
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Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2006 10:18 pm |
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Alaska -
I have not read anything by Gibson, although I have seen him interviewed several times. If you haven't already, in addition, you might like to read the new book by John Allen, who by his own admission, stated in an interview that he does not recommend anyone purchase and read his (Allen's) first book on the then Cardinal Ratzinger.
I give him alot of credit for publicly admitting this, essentially saying that his first book was comparitively inferior and unfair in it's approach and tone.
There's also a recent one out on Benedict XVI by George Weigel, who also did the definitive book to date on JPII.
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2006 11:12 pm |
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I read little any more outside of the classics. Even the news bores me. Who is David Gibson? First Things magazine summarizes:
David Gibson represents a Catholic liberalism that wants to be faithful to the Church’s teaching, recognizes the failures of liberalisms past, and is appropriately modest in its anticipations of the future.
That sounds to me like a “He’s OK” verdict. You can read the rest of their review of one of his books here (scroll down).
And hey — welcome back to the (new look) forum.
David
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alaskafox
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Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2006 03:31 am |
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Thanks for the tips on biographers. I'll look for the Allen book--I had read that he had critiqued his own earlier work.
Well, David, I'm embarrassed because I subscribe to First Things and I didn't even see the review which I have now read. I, too, don't read much other than classics and the texts that I teach from.
I'm only halfway through the book, but think Gibson's looking at Pope Benedict in a secularly balanced way. I don't see anything of his own Catholicism in the book really. I'm a bit dismayed that he gives little consideration or acknowledgement to the presence and work of the Spirit in the process of the pope's election or in his life other than the discussion of the pope's birth and baptism days. Maybe I'm speaking prematurely; I'll probably have to retract some of these things by the time I finish the book.
I'm half German and the one thing he does grab hold of quite clearly is the German psyche. He's really nailed that one on the head.
I've read a lot of Pope Benedict's works from his early days up until now. I'm very intrigued and reassured by the things he's chosen to speak about. I think, just based on early days here, that he's quite courageous and methodical in his approach. It's interesting, in light of the admitted liberalism of Gibson, to read what people in the "progressive" position are thinking.
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