Correspondence
Exchange with Dr. Darmstadter about Nathan Scott's Works and "Jewish" Fictional Literature (1969)
Dear Rabbi Lamm, The study of your most recent essay in Tradition, on "The New Morality under Religious Auspices", not forgetting the previous contribution to Tradition ("Faith and Doubt" to which you had to come back, in reply to Mr. Jeffrey Silver's not too gracious communication) brought the following to my mind. While I am hardly the one to bring publications in the field of religion or in the field of philosophy to your attention, I take the liberty of mentioning to you the name of a good friend of mine because his outstanding work as a theologian, scholar, contributions to the field of literary criticism, relationship between religion, literature and art, inter alia, might be of interest to you. He was my colleague at Howard U., and he, Rev. Dr. Nathan Scott Jr., (an Episcopalian) is now Professor of Theology and Literature in The Divinity School of The University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill. 60637). It is especially his publication which I just had the pleasure of receiving from him, as a token of his friendship, "The Broken Center, Studies in the Theological Horizon of Modern Literature," (Yale, paperbound) that I wish to bring to your attention. Nathan Scott Jr. is a prolific writer. His language and style sometimes frighten me. His previous writings (listed in "The Broken Center") and some forthcoming ones he mentioned to me will perhaps interest you, too. New titles are "Adversity and Grace: Studies in Recent American Literature," "Negative Capability: Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation." In addition, he tells me, he just completed another book (on Existentialism) to be published by WORLD in autumn. "The Broken Center" Studies provide the interested scholar, and most of all those who are deeply concerned with all the "faith" problems of today, be they within our own camp or extra muros, with enriching and disturbing food for thought. Needless to say that the Nathan Scott, et al show the wide "credibility" (the word, in its root, is in…
