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The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This magisterial book by respected Catholic scholar Robert Barron follows an ecumenically attractive approach and offers a postmodern, Catholic systematic theology, boldly arguing that it can invigorate Roman Catholic theology and church life. Father Barron argues that the standard ‘modern’ or ‘liberal’ approach to four theological areas—Christology, epistemology, the doctrine of God, and...

Christology, a density and particularity that is missing from Kant’s account. At the same time, we remain in a clearly modern framework. The focus of Schleiermacher’s theological attention is, as we’ve come to expect, on a general sensibility rather than on a specific revelation. Though Jesus was its trigger, the feeling of absolute dependency can and does exist apart from him; though we “learned” it through him, we can experience it without him. He is the cause of it in us, and he remains its greatest
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