From “Cemetry Gates” to “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”, The Queen is Dead is The Smiths’ best individual offering. Morrissey remains an enigmatic British lyricists with a cult-following, and Marr’s careful audio constructions make him one of my guitar idols.

We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the functino, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, procedure, presige and profit…the system is inefficient; the overhead is high; the task is rarely done with love, style and excitement, for such beauties emerge only from absorption in real objects; sometimes the task is not done at all; and those who could do it best become either cynical or resigned. [Turning then to the young, which are the focus of this book,] I assume that the young really need a more worth-while world in order to grow up at all, and I confront this real need wiht the world that they have been getting. This is the source of their problems. Our problem is to remedy the disproportion.

WJC is Moltmann’s mature Christology of which he writes: “What I wanted was not an eternal christology for heaven, but a christology for men and women who are on the way in teh conflicts of history, and are loking for bearings on that way…a christology of the way which points beyond itself and draws people toward the future of Christ, so that they remain on Christ’s path, and move forward along that path. Christology is no more than the beginning of eschatology; and eschatology, as the Chrsitian faith understands it, is always the consummation of christology. [Therefore] anyone who enters upon Christ’s way will discover who Jesus really is; and anyone who believes in Jesus as the Christ of God will follow him along the way he himself took.

Sabbath, sunday or the Lord’s Day? Is there a difference? Is this a new argument? If sunday is the Sabbath then part of the Christian Church is living in wholesale disregard to the will of God and is under his condemnation. If the Sabbath is no longer binding on the Christian then sections of the church are guilty of Pharisaism and are adding extra rules to Christ’s teaching. What was Calvin’s viewpoint? Calvin is still revered as one of the foremost developers of Christian doctrine. More than any other reformer, Calvin sought to understand the great doctrines of Christianity and apply them to everyday living. Richard Gaffin is the Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary. He has studies the extant writings of Calvin and produced a comprehensive understanding of his view of the Sabbath – you may be surprised at his findings! Not only does Gaffin show what Calvin thought, he also critiques his conclusions and compares them to other reformers and confessional statements of the period.

This is a truly classic collection from the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, with the addition of that all-important fifth member, the audience, in some of the best outings the quartet ever had. Includes swinging renditions of “Take Five” and “Pennies from Heaven.”

Four decades on, Coltrane’s best-known album rides an ever-ascending path of reverence and reach. To jazz cognoscenti, it is the pinnacle of Coltrane’s Classic Quartet. The album resonates with a universal pull. To Coltrane devotees, it proves as self-revealing a statement as any he recorded. “If you want to know who John Coltrane was,” maintains Elvin Jones, “you have to know A Love Supreme.”

From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux /is/ possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.

Phenomenology done in the presence of God and in the genre of prayer by Western Christianity’s greatest Theologian.

The most important theological work since the publication of Karl Barth’s Kirsche Dogmatik. It baptizes the whole theological project into the running Jordan of eschatological expecation.

Important especially for its inclusion of the address entitled, “What is Metaphysics?” This is Heidegger in a nutshell, and must-reading for anyone interested in following Heidegger’s early understanding of the problem of being.