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CHRIST and FREEDOM
A Christocentric Analysis of Suicidal Behavior
by Constantino V. Riccardi, with illu-trations by H. Travers Newton, Jr., San
Rafael, Cal., Riccardi Publications, 1972, 234 pp., $3.35.
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One of the things which makes this book delight-
fully edifying is already indicated by the coinci-
dence of.author and publisher. Riccardi has some-
thing to say on an extremely pressing topic and--
in the tradition of the publisher-authors of the
Renaissance-he has taken the initiative to see it
into print himself. The efforts of every thinker do
not necessarily merit seeing the light, or darkness,
of the world of books. but in this case. we are
drawn into a lively, pungent, careful study of
"freedom as a benefit of Jesus Christ within the
context of suicidal behavior."
For once the sub-title corresponds to the un-
folding argument. Throughout, the book is a
Christocentric analysis, because Riccardi is critical-
ly aware of the assumptions about Jesus Christ
which he identifies, develops and applies. His treat-
ment of Christ's person and work is perceptive, and
his interpretation of Christ's temptation is power-
fully applied to the problem of suicide (and is
scornful of the myriad ways Jesus' uniqueness is
trivialized to fit lawn-party conversation). His ef-
fort to understand carefully the language of Chat-
cedon and to translate it for contemporary use is
usually successful. Throughout, the book is also
about suicidal behavior because of Riccardi's own
experience in this area and the discipline with
which he examines the material from this perspec-
tive.
He begins with several startling incidents (he re-
fuses to call them cases) of suicidal behavior and
announces the standpoint from which he engages
in his work (and which gives us a hint of the ra-
ther Kierkegaardian style to follow). "I am not a
psychiatrist and I am not a clergyman. I once had
the opportunity of listening to suicidal patients at
a hospital in the San Francisco area. Which hospi-
tal it was, how the opportunity presented itself
that I should work there, who the psychiatrist was
with whom I worked, what the nurses looked like,
etc., are all of course interesting questions. But for
j varied reasons, some of which will become obvious,
such information ought actually to be ignored.
When I say that I had the opportunity of listening
to suicidal patients I must of course include that'I
also listened to myself. I say this because anyone
who thinks that he or she is not in any way sui-
cidal, or could never become suicidal, is simply a
vigorous liar. Too often this is overlooked and sui-
cidal patients are placed 'out there' as some type
of strange phenomenon of another world. Such an
attitude only increases the isolation of Individuals
preoccupied with suicidal behavior. It also increases
the probability of actual solf-destruction." (pp. 1,2)
In the middle section, Riccardi draws a broad-
gauged fork through a variety of thinkers who
have spoken wisely or foolishly on suicide: Justin
Martyr and Augustin, Aquinas and Luther, Calvin
and Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and Camus, and so on.
Obviously here is the riskiest portion of such a
study but the author has had the witty humility
to give his reader excellent selections from these
figures and has provided just the right, frequently
brilliant, commentary on them to facilitate an en-
counter between them and the reader on the cen-
tral issue of the meaning of Christ's freedom for
the problem of suicide. For example, the sections
on Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky are especially in-
teresting, though the trenchant iconoclasm of Ca-
mus is not far behind.
The third part consists of a series of plays int
which thecharacterssare contemporary counter-
parts of Biblical figures-Saul, Judas, Paul, John,
Luke. Again, the endeavor is audacious and the
methodology loaded with hermeneutical and ar-
tistic problems; but, again, the over-all result is a
fruitful juxtaposition of humor and pathos which
entertains as it unnerves. The point of writing
plays is of course to find another mode of com-
municating than the didactic and propositional
ones. But Riccardi's conclusion remains consistent
whatever the mode of writing, namely that "This
entire Activity (of the Triune God) is an Activity
of indestructible Freedom, a Freedom which is only
obtainable in its ripe fullness through Jesus
Christ's active giving of Himself to everyone.
Christ's giving of Himself to everyone is the real,
persevering, and immediate Freedom which is a
completely gratitious benefit for everyone."
The illustrations by Mr. Newton are haunting
and provocative; one could only wish for more of
them.
DAVID WILLIS
Professor of Historical
Theology SFTS, GTU
Action/Reaction, 1974, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 28-29
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