Bridging The Great Divide

Preface: Cultivators Of A Flourishing Garden Of Life

Building A Bridge Across The Great Divide

The Virtue Of Bi-Polar Extremism

The Trouble With A Beige Catholicism

Paths And Practices: Recovering An Embodied Christianity

Liturgy

Lex Orandi, Lex Vivendi: The Liturgy As A Source For The Moral Life

The Trouble With Beige Churches: A Critique Of The Influence Of Cartesian Modernity On Contemporary

The Liturgical Act And The Church Of The Twenty-first Century

At The Feet Of The Masters

The Christian Humanism Of Karol Wojtyla And Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas’s Christological Reading Of God And The Creature

God As Artist

Genesis And Joyce: Narratives Of Sin, Grace And Theonomy: An Essay In Honor Of Andrew Greeley On His Seventieth Birthday

Preaching The Message

“I’m Waiting; I’m Waiting”: An Advent Meditation

The Grandfather And The Voice From The Whirlwind: A Meditation On Preaching The Problem Of Suffering

Three Paths Of Holiness

A Sermon For Children Of The Seventies

The Way Of Nonviolence

Thomas Merton’s Metaphysics Of Peace

Creation, Transsubstantiation And The Grain Of The Universe: A Contribution To Stanley Hauerwas’s Ekklesia Project

“Comes A Warrior”: A Christmas Meditation

Priesthood And Ministry

Priest As Bearer Of The Mystery

Priest As Doctor Of The Soul

Mystagogues, World-Transformers And Interpreters Of Tongues: A Reflection On Collaborative Ministry In The Church

Evangelizing The American Culture

Additional Info
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 throughout the post-conciliar period.

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 goes bridges the great divide and gives voice to the concerns of post-liberal, post-conservative, evangelical believers.