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Authors: Robert Barron
ISBN-13: 9780824517533, ISBN-10: 0824517539
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Robert Barron

Book Synopsis

This book is about coming to vision through Christ.

Publishers Weekly

Barron, professor of systematic theology at Mundelein Seminary, near Chicago, offers an accessible exploration of Christian theological concepts He divides his book into three sections as he examines Christianity as a source of human transformation. In his first section, Barron argues that human nature is alienated from itself and thus humans are in need of a mediator who can draw them back to God and self. The second section takes up a renewed understanding of God in light of the alienated nature of humanity. In his final section, Barron contends that Christ is a healer and reconciler who seeks to draw humanity back into relationship with God. Along the way, Barron draws on sources as diverse as Dante, Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton and Flannery O'Connor. (Aug.)

Table of Contents

Prelude: Change Your Way of Seeing1
Pt. 1The Riven Self
1The Mind of Fear: Beginning with Dante19
2Originating Sin: The Tumble out of the Garden32
3The Doctrine of Original Sin: The Fathers of Trent44
4The Mind of Trust: Beginning with Merton55
5The Imago in Fullness and Emptiness: Balthasar, Schleiermacher, and Tillich69
Pt. 2The Uncanny God
6No Grasping, No Hiding: Beginning with Faulkner91
7The Serenity and the Creativity of God106
8The Self-Sufficiency and the Faithfulness of God119
9The Lordliness and the Lowliness of God134
10Love: God's Deepest Name147
Pt. 3The Healing
11Jesus the Judge: Beginning with Flannery O'Connor159
12Jesus the Paradigm of the New Humanity: The Sermon on the Mount183
13Jesus the Revealer of the True God: Christmas, Chalcedon, and the Cross195
Conclusion: To Light a Fire on the Earth220
Notes222
Index225

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