Summaries / Resúmenes - Studia Moralia

488 REVIEWS / RECENSIONESThe historical conditioning of the human person, and the preciseimplications of the Church being in the world, are also of importancein the interpretation of Gaudium et spes. Attention to these pointscould have helped Niemira understand better the tradition whichshaped the thought of Capone and Häring. The issue is not whetherthese two theologians are sufficiently christological in their moralformulations: Niemira does justice to both of them on this point.How they formulate their christology is the issue. I found it interestingthat the last chapter (La Liturgia) presents a wonderful, even programmatic,vision for moral theology. This could have been anopportunity to include more analytic comments on the ecclesiologicalconcerns of his two authors.Niemira is to be congratulated on the considerable feat of writinghis thesis in a language that is not his mother tongue. I notedsome errors in his use of other languages, for instance: ‘Faithful’ iswrongly spelt on p. 17, ‘Streit der’ is wrongly configured on p. 29,‘Responsibility’ is given an unusual spelling on p. 161. I picked up sixerrors in the bibliography. These are thoroughly minor matters.It was my exciting privilege to have studied under both Häringand Capone, and I believe that Niemira has done justice to both thesegreat theologians. He is not uncritical of them, but he appreciates thesubstantial if quite different contribution of both to the particularquestion of the relationship between theological anthropology andmoral concern in a christological key. This work is a notable contributionto the secondary literature on two moral theologians whowere at the turbulent centre of intense debates before, during andafter Vatican II.RAPHAEL GALLAGHER, C.SS.R.Palumbieri, Sabino, Una bella notizia per te. Introduzione a un cristianesimogioioso, Milano: Paoline 2003, 302 p. (Spiritualità nelquotidiano, 14).Concretizzando l’invito pressante alla speranza di Novo millennioineunte, i vescovi italiani hanno radicato il cammino pastorale diquesti anni nella convinzione che “compito primario della Chiesa siatestimoniare la gioia e la speranza originate dalla fede nel SignoreGesù Cristo, vivendo nella compagnia degli uomini, in piena solida-