Authors: Robert Barron
ISBN-13: 9780824517533, ISBN-10: 0824517539
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book is about coming to vision through Christ.
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.)
Prelude: Change Your Way of Seeing | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The Riven Self | |
1 | The Mind of Fear: Beginning with Dante | 19 |
2 | Originating Sin: The Tumble out of the Garden | 32 |
3 | The Doctrine of Original Sin: The Fathers of Trent | 44 |
4 | The Mind of Trust: Beginning with Merton | 55 |
5 | The Imago in Fullness and Emptiness: Balthasar, Schleiermacher, and Tillich | 69 |
Pt. 2 | The Uncanny God | |
6 | No Grasping, No Hiding: Beginning with Faulkner | 91 |
7 | The Serenity and the Creativity of God | 106 |
8 | The Self-Sufficiency and the Faithfulness of God | 119 |
9 | The Lordliness and the Lowliness of God | 134 |
10 | Love: God's Deepest Name | 147 |
Pt. 3 | The Healing | |
11 | Jesus the Judge: Beginning with Flannery O'Connor | 159 |
12 | Jesus the Paradigm of the New Humanity: The Sermon on the Mount | 183 |
13 | Jesus the Revealer of the True God: Christmas, Chalcedon, and the Cross | 195 |
Conclusion: To Light a Fire on the Earth | 220 | |
Notes | 222 | |
Index | 225 |