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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...

the exaggerated claims advanced by historicity. The priority of Christ is ontological, epistemic and ethical; but the new melodies chanting who Christ is can’t be heard without first muting the tired songs derived from Cartesian subjectivism. The original sin of liberal Christianity is to reduce divine self-revelation to personal religious experience. When I was a seminarian over four decades ago, an experienced spiritual director used to take my many concerns about the spiritual life and the life
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