Authors: Robert E. Barron
ISBN-13: 9780742532069, ISBN-10: 0742532062
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rev. Robert Barron is an associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. His other recent books include Heaven in Stone and Glass, which addresses the spirituality of the Gothic cathedral, Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master, and And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation. Barron has published numerous books and articles, and is highly sought after as a speaker throughout the United States.
Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic represents a pivotal moment in the life of the Catholic community. Today's faithful are searching for an expression of Catholic Christianity that is vibrant, colorful, provocative, counter-cultural, deeply rooted in the tradition, and full of the promise of the Good News. In this timely and prophetic book, Father Robert Barron--himself a member of the younger generation--has minted a new vernacular and blazed a new way that bridges the great divide and gives voice to the concerns of post-liberal, post-conservative, evangelical believers.
Preface : cultivators of a flourishing garden of life | ||
Ch. 1 | The virtue of bi-polar extremism | 3 |
Ch. 2 | The trouble with a beige Catholicism | 11 |
Ch. 3 | Paths and practices : recovering an embodied Christianity | 22 |
Ch. 4 | Lex Orandi, Lex Vivendi : the liturgy as a source for the moral life | 35 |
Ch. 5 | The liturgical act and the church of the twenty-first century | 53 |
Ch. 6 | The trouble with beige churches : a critique of the influence of Cartesian modernity on contemporary Ecclesial architecture | 68 |
Ch. 7 | Thomas Aquinas's Christological reading of God and the creature | 87 |
Ch. 8 | The Christian humanism of Karol Wojtyla and Thomas Aquinas | 107 |
Ch. 9 | God as artist | 124 |
Ch. 10 | Genesis and Joyce : narratives of sin, grace, and theonomy. : an essay in honor of Andrew Greeley on his seventieth birthday | 139 |
Ch. 11 | "I'm waiting; I'm waiting" : an Advent meditation | 165 |
Ch. 12 | Three paths of holiness | 171 |
Ch. 13 | The grandfather and the voice from the whirlwind : a meditation on preaching the problem of suffering | 181 |
Ch. 14 | A sermon for children of the seventies | 191 |
Ch. 15 | Thomas Merton's metaphysics of peace | 199 |
Ch. 16 | Creation, transubstantiation, and the grain of the universe : a contribution to Stanley Hauerwas's Ekklesia project | 214 |
Ch. 17 | "Comes a warrior" : a Christmas meditation | 220 |
Ch. 18 | Priest as bearer of the mystery | 227 |
Ch. 19 | Priest as doctor of the soul | 235 |
Ch. 20 | Mystagogues, world transformers, and interpreters of tongues : a reflection on collaborative ministry in the church | 244 |
Ch. 21 | Evangelizing the American culture | 256 |