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160 BOOK REVIEWS Hayen's book is both interesting and valuable, contributing to a deeper comprehension of obedience in the Church today. It provides enriching insights, and questions also, for Hayen does not offer easy solutions when they are not possible. The style may not always be easy, but the stimulating substance is there. ANTONIO MATTIAZZO Brasilia, Brazil Teologia Del Progresso Delle Realta Spazio-Temporali. By FRANcEsco NERoNE. Rome: Edizione Paoline, 197~. Pp. ~~6. This work is largely an exploration of the meaning of technological development . It relies heavily upon the teaching of Vati, m II, especially as given in Gaudium et Spes, and upon recent papal encyclicals, especially Mater et Magistra and Pacem in terris of John XA.III and Populorum Progressio of Paul VI. Besides recounting the teaching of these documents the author works out a concept and metaphysics of progress which he then situates in a theological context of creation and eschatological consummation . An introductory chapter sets forth the importance and current interest in the question of scientific and technological development. He then elaborates a particular concept of progress as " guided becoming." After making a series of distinctions and comparisons the author locates the special object of his concern in the changes which man, as free and intelligent , is able to effect in the material world. A mutual openness between man and spatio-temporal realities makes this kind of progress possible. Man's place in creation lays upon him the responsibility to further this progress. For God has created the universe with both the subject and object of progress (man and infra-human material realities) and calls man to bring it about. Confirmation for this view is found in the teaching and example of Jesus, who labored with his hands and yet introduced a supernatural dimension into his work. Progress of this sort has finally an eschatological meaning, since it is related to the ultimate transformation of the material universe. In spite of the real importance of this theme and in spite of the metaphysics , theology, and documentation which is brought to bear upon it, the actual treatment in this book is finally unsatisfactory. There is a lack of unifying insight which grasps the whole mater from within. The author distinguishes many types of evolution, progress, and development, but he never expresses clearly the unity underlying all of them so as to make his particular consideration luminous in itself and illuminating for other aspects. He sets out some very obvious matters as if they were profound truths, e. g., matter can be affected by human activity (cf. p. 108 ff.). He BOOK REVIEWS 161 never really makes clear from intrinsic reasons why this progress is good and desirable, and how it corresponds to God's creative purpose. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Berkeley, California JOHN H. WRIGHT, s. J. Jacobus M. Ramirez, 0. P., Opera Omnia. Tomus I. De ipsa philosophia in universum. 2 vols., ed. Victorinus Rodriguez, 0. P. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Instituto de Filosofia ' Luis Vives,' ~1)70. pp. xxxii + 881, with subject index, index of Thomistic citations, and analytical index. 900 pts. ..,..,? The two volumes here under review, which make up the first tome of the Omnia Opera of the distinguished Spanish Dominican and Thomist, Santiago Ramirez (1891-1967), are devoted to a full analysis of philosophy in general, its nature, its component parts, and its distinctive characteristics . The work was begun over fifty years ago and approximately half of the first volume has been published previously, in a series of articles appearing in La Ciencia Tomista between 1922 and 1924. The remainder of the first volume and all of the second were written between 1956 and 1958 but have not been published heretofore. Apparently Ramirez wished to revise the manuscript in its entirety before putting the work into print, and indeed set himself to this task in 1966 after he had finished his labors on behalf of the Second Vatican Council. He was able to revise only about fifteen pages before his death, however, and these now appear among the introductory pages of the first volume. The portions of the work that appeared in La Ciencia Tomista were translated...

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