[ELD] Episcopal Life Daily

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
August 21, 2008

Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: John Paddock appointed new dean of Gibraltar
* WORLD REPORT - MELANESIA: Malaita Bishop Terry Brown retires
* WORLD REPORT - UGANDA: Anglican leaders support president's speech on
homosexuality
* ARTS - Brideshead film is beautiful, but banal
* DAYBOOK - August 22, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Protestant Reformation

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WORLD REPORT

EUROPE: John Paddock appointed new dean of Gibraltar
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100075_ENG_HTM.htm

MELANESIA: Malaita Bishop Terry Brown retires
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100074_ENG_HTM.htm

UGANDA: Anglican leaders support president's speech on homosexuality
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100076_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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ARTS

Brideshead film is beautiful, but banal

By Martha K. Baker

[Episcopal Life] 

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Director: Julian Jarrold
Writers: Andrew Davies, Jeremy Brock
Cast: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael
Gambon
Rating: PG-13
Running: 145 minutes 

Brideshead Revisited, as anyone who has read Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel or
reveled in PBS' 11-segment series knows, is as much about religion as about
a time and place (England between two ghastly world wars). The religious
theme, like others in the film version of Brideshead Revisited, remains
superficial. The result is beautiful but banal.

Brideshead is a magnificent pile of stately stone, home to the Flytes,
including dissolute Sebastian and conflicted Julia. Lady Marchmain, a mother
unbending who speaks in the "familial we," defined her children with dogma.
Try as they will to unknot the rosary beads, they cannot. The story is told
in flashback, through and by Charles Ryder, an unpedigreed "painter from
Paddington," who falls for Sebastian at Oxford.

Full review: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_100077_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

On August 22, 2008...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On August 22, 1800, Edward B. Pusey, author of Tracts
for the Times and a leader of the Oxford Movement to renew the Anglican
Church, was born. He wrote several works promoting a union between Anglicans
and Roman Catholics.

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CATALYST

"The Protestant Reformation" from HarperCollins Publishers, edited by Hans
J. Hillerbrand, 290 pages, paperback, c. 1968, $15.95

[HarperCollins Publishers] "Many basic questions surround the Reformation.
What were its causes? Was it precipitated by the Zeitgeist prevailing in
Europe, so that there would have been a religious upheaval even if Luther or
Zwingli had died in their cradles? Was the Reformation an authentically
religious phenomenon, or the result of certain political, social, or
economic developments? Was it 'medievil' or 'modern' in its orientation?
What was the teaching of the Reformers? What was the significance of the
Reformation? The measure of scholarly agreement with respect to these
questions differs; far from offering definitive answers, we can here only
call attention to their persistent presence.... 

"When the reformers who had first ventured a new interpretation of the
gospel had passed from the scene, the question which had haunted the
Reformation from its very inception -- where is truth? -- was still
contested by the proponents of the old and the new faith. But one fact was
beyond dispute: Western Christendom was tragically divided...into no less
than five [religious factions]....Though these divisions were the result of
intense religious conviction, they could not help but lessen the intensity
of religious belief in Europe." -- Hans J. Hillerbrand

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http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm