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Priests in Working-Class Blue: The History of the Worker-Priests (1943-1954) . By Arnal Oscar L.. New York: Paulist, 1986. viii + 239 pages. $11.95 (paper).

Oscar L. Arnal has written what is, to my mind, the most comprehensive and objective study of the French worker-priest movement yet to appear in English. As an historian, Arnal sets for himself the task of presenting the "history (both personal and social) of a group of radical priests" who embodied, and indeed became forerunners of, the incarnational theology and "praxis-reflectionpraxis" methodology so typical of later developments in Latin American liberation theology (Acknowledgments, p. vi). He divides the historical material into nine chapters. In the first, he develops the theme of the paradigmatic nature of the movement as a significant model for gospel-based movements of liberation in the industrialized West. In the next three chapters, he elaborates upon this theme by situating the worker-priest movement in the historical, ecclesiological and sociological context of twentieth-century France. The heart of the book, and its special contribution, is found in Chapters V-VIII. In these chapters, he presents a tapestry of the personal histories of many of the worker-priests and their motivation for entering the world of the worker, their experiences of becoming "naturalized" into this world, the evolution of the methodology of "praxisreflection-praxis," and finally their experiences of conflict with the institutional church of the time. The final chapter evaluates the impact of the worker-priest movement upon the contemporary church, concluding that it is both unique and paradigmatic for developments within the contemporary church.