Bridging The Great Divide
Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic represents a pivotal moment in the life of the Catholic community. As the Church seeks to maintain its unique witness, nurture the faithful, and evangelize, a new generation of American Catholics has emerged. No longer the "next generation," these new leaders came of age after the Second Vatican Council and, like many others, no longer find compelling the battles between the liberals and conservatives...
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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 lifeCh. 1The virtue of bi-polar extremism3Ch. 2The trouble with a beige Catholicism11Ch. 3Paths and practices : recovering an embodied Christianity22Ch. 4Lex Orandi, Lex Vivendi : the liturgy as a source for the moral life35Ch. 5The liturgical act and the church of the twenty-first century53Ch. 6The trouble with beige churches : a critique of the influence of Cartesian modernity on contemporary Ecclesial architecture68Ch. 7Thomas Aquinas's Christological reading of God and the creature87Ch. 8The Christian humanism of Karol Wojtyla and Thomas Aquinas107Ch. 9God as artist124Ch. 10Genesis and Joyce : narratives of sin, grace, and theonomy. : an essay in honor of Andrew Greeley on his seventieth birthday139Ch. 11"I'm waiting; I'm waiting" : an Advent meditation165Ch. 12Three paths of holiness171Ch. 13The grandfather and the voice from the whirlwind : a meditation on preaching the problem of suffering181Ch. 14A sermon for children of the seventies191Ch. 15Thomas Merton's metaphysics of peace199Ch. 16Creation, transubstantiation, and the grain of the universe : a contribution to Stanley Hauerwas's Ekklesia project214Ch. 17"Comes a warrior" : a Christmas meditation220Ch. 18Priest as bearer of the mystery227Ch. 19Priest as doctor of the soul235Ch. 20Mystagogues, world transformers, and interpreters of tongues : a reflection on collaborative ministry in the church244Ch. 21Evangelizing the American culture256
\ Anglican Theological ReviewClearly well versed in his own and other Christian denominational traditions as well as with contemporary popular and academic culture, Barron puts all these in dialogue in ways engrossing and accessible to a variety of audiences…Spiritual and theological richness-not to mention sheer pleasure…await the reader in this volume.\ \ \ \ \ Catholic New WorldBarron takes his readers on an interesting ride through systematic theology, liturgy, homiletics and spirituality, social ethics and finally through several essays on theology of priesthood and the laity.\ \
