And Now I See . . .: A Theology of Transformation
by Robert Barron
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Author: Robert BarronEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN: 0824517539
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
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Book Review: Blending scholarship and passion, fabulous introduction to Christ
Summary: 5 Stars
This book briefly and compellingly introduces Christianity and its value. Christianity, Barron, argues is not defined by a set of beliefs. Instead, it is above all else a new way of seeing. There is something very wrong with our nature, Barron argues, and Christ heals it.
I thought the book was absolutely wonderful. Barron is a professor of theology, and he is clearly a very learned man. He is, of course, deeply familiar with scripture and theology, ranging from the Church fathers to the classics of both Catholic and Protestant theology. He knows modern theology very well. He also has a deep knowledge of, and interest in, literature. When making a point, he tends to range from the Gospels to Dante to Flannery O'Connor.
In the course of the book, Barron explains a great deal of Church theology. He gives a very nuanced explanation of the nature of the soul and the nature of God. Teaching theology, however, is not his concern here; he is not trying to teach a system of thought. Rather, he is trying to share the transforming power of the Word. That is what is so absolutely extraordinary about this book. So much of the time, Catholics and other mainstream religious tend to approach religion as a matter of abstract intellectual thought. We tend to leave the passion and the fire to change souls to the Evangelicals.
Above all else, Barron wants to set Christ free from the libraries. He wants Church teaching to stop being a dry discipline for specialized scholars. He wants to set it loose in the world, to transform lives. His writing is a great force for Catholic evangelicizing.
I recommend this book very highly. I think it is a very good book to introduce Christianity to people. Ratzinger/Benedict, of course, wrote his very well-received Introduction to Christianity, and it is a very good book. Ratzinger's focus in that book, however, was not really on Christ but on religion as such. He was trying to address a modern secular audience, who finds the entire idea of God to be bizzare and incomprehensible. Barron, in this book, is not concerned with proving the existence of God or of arguing with modern philosophy. Instead, he is interested, in presenting the Lord, simply, directly and in all his power. This is not religion, in the abstract; this is the message of Jesus Christ, presented as the soul-transforming force that it is.
Summary of And Now I See . . .: A Theology of Transformation
?Christianity is, above all, a way of seeing. What unites figures as diverse as James Joyce, Caravaggio, John Milton, the architect of Chartres, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the later Bob Dylan is a peculiar and distinctive take on things, a style, a way, which flows finally from Jesus of Nazareth. Origen remarked that holiness is seeing with the eyes of Christ. Teilhard de Chardin said, with great passion, that his mission as a Christian thinker was to help people see. And Thomas Aquinas said that the ultimate goal of the Christian life is a ?beatific vision,? an act of seeing. This book is about coming to vision through Christ.? ? Robert Barron, from the Prelude
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