1 I-IL MlLHI(jAN DAiLY Page 5everi EMEMM THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page sever -i_.. ':1 erS e i.+.'a'r i" , m- m. ...Y . . ,1, c ,--s.ni1. . . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN * ,,* 4"' n omm*r".r''*m.'."9 mma. m 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. Friday, April 5 Day Calendar FSEE written exam will be given Saturdays, April 6, May 4, and June 1; an on Thursda~c _1 a nd Mn~ Q Hospital Commission for Women: W- uo r .i m v 10430 Hospital, noon. This is your last opportunity to take Education Media Ctr., A-V Ctr.: "In- the FSEE until October. terview with Mai Lai Veterans:" "My Voice of America: Candidates are Country Right or Wrong;" "Toys," now being considered for the East Asia Schorling Aud., SEB. 12:15 p.m. Pacific Broadcast Trainee program., Baseball: U-M vs. Detroit. 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Must be fluent in seeking entry level employees for 05 Spanish. Details and applications avail- & 07 grades; April 24 - Teacher Corps able. The woman who has 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. 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