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Abuse Of Psychiatry In The Soviet Union
Vladimir Bukovsky was put in a psychiatric hospital in the Soviet Union and held there compulsorily for no mental illness but for his beliefs. He is now free and in the West,......
Hymns Lasting And Passing
There has been a gradual revolution in church music over the past 10 - years. "Folk hymns" for want of a better definition, are — like them or not here to stay. Some can be......
A Second Marriage
Any woman who has done social work can tell a story. Ruth Evans tells hers, in retrospect, with humanity and compassion, in dread of the word "care" being left out of the......
Fight For A Soul
What happens when a young Catholic boy becomes a "Jesus freak"? Er Amico — arriving back in Texas from Rome, shaky in his faith and worried about his fat — is thrown into the......
A Cure For The Sceptical
This is an important book for those involved in Charismatic Renewal: it is just as important for those not so involved but either sceptical or curious. The author, with a......
Critic Al Theology
Alfredo Fierro sketches in the context of current political theologies, tracing it back to the era of existentialist thinking and elucidating their specific difference from all......
Tradition Accumulated
This book by the Dean of Durham is a largely rewritten version of his well-known work which first appeared in 1949. It has been updated in the light of subsequent scholarship,......
Shaw Recommended
BERNARD SHAW'S The Apple Cart, at the Chichester Festival, portrays in Shaw's own witty manner the difficulties of constitutional monarchy. Is the king to be the complete rubber......
Clerical Leg-pull Bells Of Hell, A New Comedy By John
Mortimer at the Garrick, takes a gently humorous look at today's clergy. Beset by the pitfalls of trying to be avant garde, they are confronted with a modern "miracle." The......
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Looking At Books Carolyn Scott Oliver Knox, Nephew Of Ronald
Knox, was an adman before escaping abroad to immerse himself in Greek tragedy. In his new novel, Asylum (Collins, 14.25) he is neither witty enough nor bitter enough effectively......