About the Book
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, Bishop 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.
Contents
PREFACE: CULTIVATORS OF A FLOURISHING GARDEN OF LIFE
Part I: Building a Bridge across the Great Divide
Chapter One:
THE VIRTUE OF BI-POLAR EXTREMISM
Chapter Two:
THE TROUBLE WITH A BEIGE CATHOLICISM
Chapter Three:
PATHS AND PRACTICES: RECOVERING AN
EMBODIED CHRISTIANITY
Part II: Liturgy
Chapter Four:
LEX ORANDI, LEX VIVENDI: THE LITURGY AS A SOURCE FOR THE MORAL LIFE
Chapter Five:
THE LITURGICAL ACT AND THE CHURCH OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chapter Six:
THE TROUBLE WITH BEIGE CHURCHES: A CRITIQUE OF THE INFLUENCE OF CARTESIAN MODERNITY ON CONTEMPORARY ECCLESIAL ARCHITECTURE
Part III: At the Feet of the Masters
Chapter Seven:
THOMAS AQUINAS'S CHRISTOLOGICAL READING OF
GOD AND THE CREATURE
Chapter Eight:
THE CHRISTIAN HUMANISM OF KAROL WOJTYLA AND
THOMAS AQUINAS
Chapter Nine:
GOD AS ARTIST
Chapter Ten:
GENESIS AND JOYCE: NARRATIVES OF SIN, GRACE, AND THEONOMY. AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF ANDREW GREELEY ON HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
Part IV: Preaching the Message
Chapter Eleven:
"I'M WAITING; I'M WAITING": AN ADVENT MEDITATION
Chapter Twelve:
THREE PATHS OF HOLINESS
Chapter Thirteen:
THE GRANDFATHER AND THE VOICE FROM THE WHIRLWIND: A MEDITATION ON PREACHING THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING
Chapter Fourteen:
A SERMON FOR CHILDREN OF THE SEVENTIES
Part V: The Way of Nonviolence
Chapter Fifteen:
THOMAS MERTON'S METAPHYSICS OF PEACE
Chapter Sixteen:
CREATION, TRANSUBSTANTIATION, AND THE GRAIN OF
THE UNIVERSE: A CONTRIBUTION TO STANLEY HAUERWAS'S EKKLESIA PROJECT
Chapter Seventeen:
"COMES A WARRIOR": A CHRISTMAS MEDITATION
Part VI: Priesthood and Ministry
Chapter Eighteen:
PRIEST AS BEARER OF THE MYSTERY
Chapter Nineteen:
PRIEST AS DOCTOR OF THE SOUL
Chapter Twenty:
MYSTAGOGUES, WORLD TRANSFORMERS, AND INTERPRETERS OF TONGUES: A REFLECTION ON COLLABORATIVE MINISTRY IN THE CHURCH
Chapter Twenty-One: EVANGELIZING THE AMERICAN CULTURE
INDEX
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