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Overview
Catholicism is both/and, not either/or. It celebrates the union of contraries—grace and nature, faith and reason, Scripture and Tradition, body and soul—in a way that the full energy of each opposing element remains in place.
In Vibrant Paradoxes, bestselling author Bishop Robert Barron brings together themes and motifs that many would consider mutually exclusive or, at best, awkward in their juxtaposition. But seen through the Incarnation, these opposites crash together and reflect new light in every direction requiring a new vision. This book will train you to see.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781943243105 |
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| Publisher: | Word on Fire |
| Publication date: | 04/18/2016 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 283,818 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xiii
Sin and Mercy 1
God Joins Our Dysfunctional Family 2
Extreme Demands, Extreme Mercy 5
Evangelizing on the Road to Emmaus 8
Revisiting Spiritual Warfare 11
Seeing Political Corruption with Biblical Eyes 14
Wise Words from the Bishop of Rome Concerning the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal 17
René Girard, Church Father 20
The Field Hospital Is Open 24
The Parable of the Talents 28
Pope Benedict and the Logic of Gratuity 31
Pope Francis and True Mercy 34
The iPhone App and the Return to Confession 37
The Revolutionary Message of Palm Sunday 40
Reason and Faith 45
The Indecipherable Writing of Thomas Aquinas 46
The Myth of the War between Science and Religion 49
Playing at Atheism 52
Why the Sciences Will Never Disprove the Existence of God 55
Woody Allen's Bleak Vision 59
What Faith Is and What It Isn't 62
Why I Love My Invisible Friend 65
What Makes the Church Grow? 68
Does Religion Really Have A "Smart-People Problem"? 71
America Needs You, Thomas Aquinas 75
Revisiting the Argument from Motion 78
Revisiting the Argument from Desire 82
Einstein and God 85
Pope Benedict and How to Read the Bible 88
Preaching the Strange Word 92
The Genesis Problem 95
Mother Nature Is One Unreliable Lady 98
Laudato Si' and Romano Guardini 101
The Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas Merton's Birth 104
The Pope, the Congress, and a Trappist Monk 108
Ross Douthat and the Catholic Academy 111
John Henry Newman at the Synod on the Family 114
A Lion of the American Church: Thoughts on the Passing of Cardinal George 118
Priests, Prophets, Kings 127
Matter and Spirit 131
St. John's Christmas Sermon 132
Why You Need Spiritual Food 136
Bruce Jenner, the "Shadow Council," and St Irenaeus 139
A Case for Celibacy by Priests 142
Why Jesus and Religion Are Like Two Peas in a Pod 145
What Easter Means 148
The Startlingly Good News of the Resurrection 152
Why the Ascension of the Lord Matters 155
Freedom and Discipline 159
What Is Our Fundamental Problem? 160
Dietrich von Hildebrand and Our Relativistic Age 163
Pope Benedict XVI Among the Germans 166
The Death of God and the Loss of Human Dignity 169
Your Life Does Not Belong to You 172
Why Goodness Depends on God 175
The Tiny Whispering Sound 178
St. Irenaeus and the God Who Doesn't Need Us 181
The Glory of God Is a Human Being "Fully Alive" 184
Thomas More and the Bishop of Rome 187
Why St. Junipero Serra Matters Today 190
Why Having a Heart of Gold Is Not What Christianity Is About 194
A "No" to a "No" Is a "Yes" 198
Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, and Letting the Fly out of the Fly Bottle 201
We've Been Here Before: Same-Sex Marriage and the Room of Tears 204
Love, Tolerance, and the Making of Distinctions 207
The "Waze" of Providence 210
What the Hell? 213
Pope Benedict As a Witness to God 216
A Prophetic Pope and the Tradition of Catholic Social Teaching 220
The Cleansing of the Temple 224
Suffering and Joy 227
Stephen Fry, Job, and the Cross of Jesus 228
God and the Tsunami 231
Stephen Colbert, J.R.R. Tolkein, John Henry Newman, and the Providence of God 234
Hospital-Land and the Divinization of One's Passivities 237
The Dangers of the Prosperity Gospel 240
The Lesson of Calcutta 243
A Saint of Darkness 246
The Lesson of Lough Derg 249
A Tale of Two Skulls 252
The Fire at Namugongo 255
A Persecuted Church and Its Heroes 258
A Message in Blood: ISIS and the Meaning of the Cross 261
The Joy of Evangelizing 264
What Are You Waiting For? 267