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Authors: Robert E. Barron
ISBN-13: 9780742532069, ISBN-10: 0742532062
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Robert E. Barron

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Preface : cultivators of a flourishing garden of life
Ch. 1The virtue of bi-polar extremism3
Ch. 2The trouble with a beige Catholicism11
Ch. 3Paths and practices : recovering an embodied Christianity22
Ch. 4Lex Orandi, Lex Vivendi : the liturgy as a source for the moral life35
Ch. 5The liturgical act and the church of the twenty-first century53
Ch. 6The trouble with beige churches : a critique of the influence of Cartesian modernity on contemporary Ecclesial architecture68
Ch. 7Thomas Aquinas's Christological reading of God and the creature87
Ch. 8The Christian humanism of Karol Wojtyla and Thomas Aquinas107
Ch. 9God as artist124
Ch. 10Genesis and Joyce : narratives of sin, grace, and theonomy. : an essay in honor of Andrew Greeley on his seventieth birthday139
Ch. 11"I'm waiting; I'm waiting" : an Advent meditation165
Ch. 12Three paths of holiness171
Ch. 13The grandfather and the voice from the whirlwind : a meditation on preaching the problem of suffering181
Ch. 14A sermon for children of the seventies191
Ch. 15Thomas Merton's metaphysics of peace199
Ch. 16Creation, transubstantiation, and the grain of the universe : a contribution to Stanley Hauerwas's Ekklesia project214
Ch. 17"Comes a warrior" : a Christmas meditation220
Ch. 18Priest as bearer of the mystery227
Ch. 19Priest as doctor of the soul235
Ch. 20Mystagogues, world transformers, and interpreters of tongues : a reflection on collaborative ministry in the church244
Ch. 21Evangelizing the American culture256

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