"Father Barron's bracing, stimulating essays remind us that the 'Church in permanent mission' to which Pope Francis has called Catholics must be thoughtful as well as merciful, culture-challenging as well as culture-forming, intellectually sharp as well as pastorally sensitive."  
\--__George Weigel__, author of Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church  
  
"These essays remind us how indispensable Fr. Barron is as a spokesman for the integrity and beauty of the Christian faith. He combines theological learning and depth with a remarkable gift for knowing what needs to be said--and how to say it."  
\--__R. R. Reno__, editor, First Things  
  
"Father Barron is a man of faith whose thirst for God has engendered an authentic intellectual quest. This book is the rarest of achievements, namely a demonstration in one short volume of how the doctrine of God, Christology, the Church, ethics, liturgy, and history go together in lived experience."  
\--__Matthew Levering__, Mundelein Seminary  
  
"Today the Western Church has to proclaim the gospel in a culture that says it has outgrown religion, Christianity in particular. In this new and perilous situation, we have no more honest and reliable guide than Fr. Barron. He shows us how to remember and teach the truths about God and ourselves that our culture once knew but is now trying to forget--and trying to tempt the Church also to forget."  
\--__Bruce D. Marshall__, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University  
  
"An exceptionally readable introduction to modern theology. Exploring Catholic Theology could be read for pleasure and for profit by undergraduate students, professors, pastors, and lay parish leaders. Barron is recreating apologetics at a more imaginative and challenging level. Everyone who meditates on this book will discover something new about how to witness to the truth of Christianity in a postmodern culture."  
\--__Francesca Murphy__, University of Notre Dame  
  
"In this book, Fr. Barron models the kind of pastoral theology and ressourcement envisioned by Vatican II. His is a theology founded on Scripture, tradition, and liturgy--but with windows open onto the world, engaging pop culture and high culture, politics and poetics, evangelicals and postmoderns, the new atheism and the old. Highly recommended, especially for pastors, scholars, teachers, and seminarians."  
\--__Scott Hahn__, Franciscan University of Steubenville; St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

__Robert Barron__ (STD, Institut Catholique de Paris) is auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He founded Word on Fire, a Catholic ministry of evangelism, and previously served as rector of Mundelein Seminary and president of the University of St. Mary of the Lake. Barron has written numerous books, including Catholicism (over 100,000 copies sold) and 2 Samuel in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.

Robert Barron is one of the Catholic Church's premier theologians and author of the influential The Priority of Christ. In this volume, Barron sets forth a thoroughgoing vision for an evangelical catholic theology that is steeped in the tradition and engaged with the contemporary world. Striking a balance between academic rigor and accessibility, the book covers issues of perennial interest in the twenty-first-century church: who God is, how to rightly worship him, and how his followers engage contemporary culture. Topics include the doctrine of God, Catholic theology, philosophy, liturgy, and evangelizing the culture. This work will be of special interest to readers concerned about the so-called "new atheism."

Sets forth a thoroughgoing vision for an evangelical catholic theology that is steeped in the tradition and engaged with the contemporary world.

__Contents__ Foreword by Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.  
__Part 1: Doctrine of God__ 1. Augustine's Questions: Why the Augustinian Theology of God Matters Today  
2. Thomas Aquinas and Why the Atheists Are Right  
3. The Metaphysics of Coinherence: A Mediation on the Essence of the Christian Message  
4. The Trinity on Display in the Economy of Salvation: An Irenaean Meditation  
__Part 2: Theology and Philosophy__ 5. To See According to the Icon of Jesus Christ: Reflections on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition  
6. A Tale of Two Cardinals: Avery Dulles's Creative Engagement with the Thought of John Henry Newman  
7. John Henry Newman among the Postmoderns  
8. Biblical Interpretation and Theology: A Meditation on Irenaeus, Modernity, and Vatican II  
__Part 3: Liturgy and Eucharist__ 9. The Eucharist as the Telos of the Law in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas  
10. The Liturgical Self: An Exploration of Christian Anthropology in Light of the Liturgy  
11. The Eucharist: Sacred Banquet, Sacrifice, Real Presence  
__Part 4: A New Evangelization__ 12. Why Bernard Lonergan Matters for Pastoral People  
13. Announcing the Lordship of Jesus Christ: The Evangelical Task within Contemporary Culture  
14. From Correlation to Assimilation: A New Model for the Church-Culture Dialogue  
15. To Evangelize the Culture  
Indexes

Barron, Robert

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Part 1: Doctrine of God

1. Augustine's Questions

2. Thomas Aquinas and Why the Atheists Are Right

3. The Metaphysics of Coinherence

4. The Trinity on Display in the Economy of Salvation

Part 2: Theology and Philosophy

5. To See according to the Icon of Jesus Christ

6. A Tale of Two Cardinals

7. John Henry Newman among the Postmoderns

8. Biblical Interpretation and Theology

Part 3: Liturgy and Eucharist

9. The Eucharist as the Telos of the Law in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas

10. The Liturgical Self

11. The Eucharist

Part 4: A New Evangelization

12. Why Bernard Lonergan Matters for Pastoral People

13. Announcing the Lordship of Jesus Christ

14. From Correlation to Assimilation

15. To Evangelize the Culture

Notes

Index

Back Cover

Foreword by Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.  
  
Part 1: Doctrine of God

1\. Augustine's Questions: Why the Augustinian Theology of God Matters Today  
2\. Thomas Aquinas and Why the Atheists Are Right  
3\. The Metaphysics of Coinherence: A Mediation on the Essence of the Christian Message  
4\. The Trinity on Display in the Economy of Salvation: An Irenaean Meditation

Part 2: Theology and Philosophy

5\. To See According to the Icon of Jesus Christ: Reflections on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition  
6\. A Tale of Two Cardinals: Avery Dulles's Creative Engagement with the Thought of John Henry Newman  
7\. John Henry Newman among the Postmoderns  
8\. Biblical Interpretation and Theology: A Meditation on Irenaeus, Modernity, and Vatican II

Part 3: Liturgy and Eucharist

9\. The Eucharist as the Telos of the Law in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas  
10\. The Liturgical Self: An Exploration of Christian Anthropology in Light of the Liturgy  
11\. The Eucharist: Sacred Banquet, Sacrifice, Real Presence

Part 4: A New Evangelization

12\. Why Bernard Lonergan Matters for Pastoral People  
13\. Announcing the Lordship of Jesus Christ: The Evangelical Task within Contemporary Culture  
14\. From Correlation to Assimilation: A New Model for the Church-Culture Dialogue  
15\. To Evangelize the Culture

Indexes

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