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BOOK REVIEWS 799 Nahm's Readings can be recognized only through a careful and reflective reading of the general introduction and, even more so, of the twelve special introductory essays to chapters Q to 13. In the general introduction (chap. 1) Professor Nahm broadly sketches the difference between the philosophies of beauty and art before and after Baumgarten, as the central theme moved from divine creation to human making, giving increasing emphasis to artistic genius, inspiration, and creation. In the special introductions the reader is given a comprehensive and clearly drawn outline of how the main topic or topics of the chapter were treated within the respective period by the selected authors. Nahm usually compares and contrasts the treatment of the main issues in any one period with a treatment of those issues in the previous and/or subsequent periods. In every case, however, the birth, growth, and development of the leading aesthetic ideas, together with their impacts and relative values, are sketched with a few bold and masterly strokes, so much so that each introduction (with the partial exception of that in chapter 6) constitutes an impressive, even dazzling display of the author's familiarity and intuitive-comprehensive vision of the dominant features of the period in question 38 and, cumulatively, of the entire body of aesthetic thought, with all the complexities of the interrelations of its components and factors. These sketches cannot fail to appear to the careful reader as the magnificent fruits of a lifetime spent on studying and reflecting on the history of aesthetics, and as a brilliant manifestation of Professor Nahm's own aesthetic wisdom. All in all, despite its isolated and relatively few shortcomings, this aesthetic anthology is an extremely rich and enriching source-book of ideas about beauty, art, and artist, and an almost uniquely profound and rewarding philosophy of aesthetic history, that concentrates on the enduring mysteries of artistic genius, originality, freedom, and creation, with its quantity and quality beautifully balanced. University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma FRANCIS J. KovAcH Catholicism Confronts Modernity: A Protestant View. By LANGDON GILKEY. New York: The Seabury Press, 1975. Pp. Qll. $8.95. Langdon Gilkey, Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, offers us, in Catholicism Confronts Modernity, a work that is insightful and richly suggestive. The book's point of departure is the current crisis of Catholic theology and structures in the aftermath 88 See, e. g., chapter 10, pp. 383-90 and chapter 11, pp. 423-24. 800 BOOK REVIEWS of Vatican II; and its writing is animated by the author's conviction that "the resolution of Catholicism's most significant dilemmas [is] the most important thing that can happen for the whole church in the present." (p. 175) As contribution to this resolution Gilkey presents the reflections of a sympathetic and concerned observer who brings to his analysis the fruit of the Protestant experience of the last two centuries, which witnessed the rise and decline of liberal Protestantism and nco-Orthodoxy (a trajectory which contemporary Roman Catholic thought shows manifold signs of repeating) . Indeed, Gilkey himself is struggling to articulate a renewed liberal theology, chastened and purified by the Barthian critique, yet serious about the challenges of historical consciousness and process to Christian theologizing. The methodological basis of Gilkey's undertaking is his clarification of Vatican II's emphasis upon " aggiornamento" in terms of the problematic relation which he perceives between the symbols of the tradition and contemporary human experience. In this regard he reiterates in shortened form the analysis of secularity as radical challenge to religion which he developed at length in his earlier book, Naming the Whirlwind. He adds, however, a nuanced and extremely helpful study of the levels of meaning of theological symbols; apropos of this, I would venture to say that Chapters Four and Five of the book, entitled, respectively, "Sources and Tradition" and " The Origins of Action in Theological Understanding," are the strongest of the present work and as good a short introduction to theological method as any I know. Gilkey maintains that we do better to speak of a "development of symbols " rather than a " development of dogmas " ; for the former must be continually... be457b7860