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• W288118796 abstract "Sky Is Red: Discerning the Signs of the Times. By Kenneth Leech. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1997. 279 pp. L13.95 (paper). stand on volcanic not solid ground (quoting Berdyaev, p. 188). This is a disturbing book by a disturbed man. It is disturbingly irritating. It is disturbingly challenging: irritating, because of its occasional whining arrogance, judgmentalism, and inconsistencies; challenging, because Leech's agenda is accurate and occasionally his judgments hit home. He needs enemies and he clings to conflict like a drowning man. This reader found himself in agreement and disagreement with the author almost on every page because Leech is high on discernment and low on solutions when it comes to the signs of the times. Leech is right when he says, the heart of the Christian task as we approach the fin de siecle is the work of discernment, diakrisis (p. 128). It's a pity, therefore, that his presentation is often unbalanced. Kenneth Leech and I share similar backgrounds. We are about the same age, shared similar training, were influenced by the same books and heroes, and still (if reluctantly) describe ourselves as Anglo-Catholics and traditionalists. We share many of the same passions and convictions. He's appalled with the professionalization of the clergy and the reduction of religion to therapy. We agree that the fate of the soul and the fate of society are intertwined. While depression is often associated directly and exclusively with personal distress, my experience leads me to the belief that depression is increasingly a social, and rational response to the conflict and upheavals within the culture (p. 89). He has sine things to say cz)out sexuality and his analysis of fundamentalism is masterly. We agree that the pivotal issue is power and its relation to the centrality of worship and the celebration of the Kingdom of God. Leech writes, As a theologian, I believe that my primary theological task is praise and prayer (p. 165). And, The proclamation that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, the vision of a transformed society--the Kingdom of God-and the commitment to work with the incarnate, crucified and risen Christ to achieve it, through thE power cf the Spirit and nourished by word and Eucharist, is the Gospel. is no (p. 139). Where we disagree (and wish we didn't) is in the realm of politics. We both started out on the left. Leech is still a committed Socialist. I abandoned Socialism years ago simply because the Left I encountered as a young priest was racist and bigoted. I found that the sin of the right may well be greed but the sin of the left is no less deadly, envy. Socialists are good at redistributing wealth but poor at generating it. Leech nails me on page 80: There are those liberals who have drifted to a right-wing position through lack of credible alternatives. I have drifted to the center because I see no alternative. Leech doesn't offer one. What I hope and work for is a wholesale reimagining of politics without the tired rhetoric. I kept saying to myself, after reading yet another description of poverty, unemployment, displacement and homelessness, )es, it's awful but what would Leech do? Politically, how would he press his claims? What kind of revolutionary is he? And when we have blown up the existing order, what will be left? response to poverty is a gospel imperative, but what response? How is it shaped? Leech's ideological enemy is unnuanced Capitalism. Its evil twins were and are Thatcher and Reagan. Its lazy, consumerist supporters are, of course, Americans, and its weak and pathetic opponents are bishops and other church leaders. Bishops tend to be idiots and the US a cesspool of error. towers of Michigan Avenue in Chicago stare aggressively and insolently across the lake at the wastes of the devastated South Side, (p. 151-152) is a typical example of the rhetoric. USA comes in for a lot of (igs, especially our interest in spirituality`'. …" @default.
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