"Drawing deftly on Aquinas, Newman, Lonergan, Balthasar, and many others, Barron convincingly explains what a postliberal Catholic theology might be. But the great merit of this book is that he not only talks about what theology should be, he actually does it-above all in his lucid mystagogy on a series of Gospel stories and in striking meditations on the mind of Christ embodied in four great women saints of our time."

-BRUCE MARSHALL, Southern Methodist University

"A magnum opus.... Barron has made a signal contribution to contemporary Catholic theology. Some thing like his postliberal Catholicism marks the way ahead. Many will disagree, but anyone whose life and work involve trying to talk seriously to and about God will profit from reading The Priority of Christ."

-WILLIAM L. PORTIER, Commonweal

"Barron offers a compelling reading of several New Testament portraits of Christ and brings them into enriching conversation with later doctrinal and theological perspectives. He thus effects a renewed unity of biblical and systematic theology, which too often meander their separate ways.... Barron has gifted us with an important work that opens exciting vistas for exploration and theological renewal."

 -ROBERT P. IMBELLI

"Barron's wonderful The Priority of Christ brings postliberalism back to its Catholic home.... His postliberal Catholicism is a narrative Catholicism, teasing out the implications of this for Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as ethics and epistemology-all drawing on a prodigious knowledge of the history of philosophy and theology. On top of all this, it is a downright lovely book, written with a kind of winsome literary flair that exhibits the inviting clarity of a master teacher. Highly recommended for sharp undergraduates; required reading for graduate students and scholars." 

-JAMES K. A. SMITH, Religious Studies Review

"The book is full of gems worthy of hours of contemplation."

-MARK G. BOYER