Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.
Robert P. Imbelli
Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, taught theology for 30 years at Boston College. Audio recordings of his lectures, “Christic Imagination: How Christ Transforms Us,” have recently been released by Now You Know Media.
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We need to renew the Catholic imagination. Poets, artists and theologians can help us do that.
There can be no separation between the confession of Christ and the transformation of life, between Christian thinking and Christian living, and between theology and spirituality.
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Review: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theological vision of the Eucharist, heaven and a Christ-centered anthropology
Jonathan Ciraulo claims that “Balthasar’s theology as a whole is concerned, one could say consumed, with making the Eucharist the linchpin for all speculative dogmatics.” It is worth considering the ramifications of this view in four crucial areas of theology: Christology, theological anthropology, Trinitarian theology and eschatology.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s Eucharistic vision: A key to understanding his life and theology
“Benedict placed the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist at the very center of Catholic faith and devotion.”
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Review: What modern Catholicism gets wrong about the doctrine of atonement
The doctrine of atonement has fallen into disfavor in some theological circles and into general neglect in Catholic life. Margaret Turek’s new book offers insights about the doctrine’s importance.
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Review: Learning how to live in the presence of God from a Cistercian monk and bishop
The thrust of Bishop Erik Varden’s new book can be summed up in words preached on Pentecost Sunday: “We shouldn’t domesticate the Spirit. It comforts, but also devours.”
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Jesuit Karl Rahner on what it means to love Jesus
The Christian of the future, as Karl Rahner, S.J. once suggested, will be one who has experienced a life-changing encounter with the living Jesus Christ.
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Christian belief requires transformation, not facile compromise.
Our shared faith in Christ is a precious inheritance that can by no means be taken for granted but must be re-appropriated ever anew.
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The sex abuse scandal and the debasing of Catholic language
Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.
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Rejoice and Be Glad!
“Rejoice and be glad!” is what Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount. It is also the title of Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on holiness in everyday life.