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The Catholic Vision
The Catholic Vision [Jun 01, 1992] O'Connor, Edward D.
88 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1992
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October 9, 2023
The book I read was 480 pages. The author is a priest who taught at Notre Dame College.
I've read it multiple times, when I would like to remind myself of the big picture totality of the Christian faith every few years.
It is a great summary to approaching "religion" or spirituality in general, and then narrowing to the theology of the Catholic faith. It gives the mainstream middle of the current Catholic vision, not going into much of the historical development of doctrine or cutting edge speculations.
It is set up with the following parts (part names are directly from the book):
1. Perspectives, 3 chapters: world religions, other Christian denominations, modern religious atmosphere
2. The sources of religious knowledge, 3 chapters: nature, revelation, scripture, church
3. God the Creator, 8 chapters: divine nature, creation, humanity, morality, spirits, original sin
4. Christ the Redeemer, 6 chapters: Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Son of God, Trinity, incarnation, eternal life, one and only Savior
5. the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, 3 chapters: grace, faith hope and charity, the gift and gifts of the Holy Spirit
6.the Church, 5 chapters: mystery, identity, sacramentality, pastoral structure, things to come
I've read it multiple times, when I would like to remind myself of the big picture totality of the Christian faith every few years.
It is a great summary to approaching "religion" or spirituality in general, and then narrowing to the theology of the Catholic faith. It gives the mainstream middle of the current Catholic vision, not going into much of the historical development of doctrine or cutting edge speculations.
It is set up with the following parts (part names are directly from the book):
1. Perspectives, 3 chapters: world religions, other Christian denominations, modern religious atmosphere
2. The sources of religious knowledge, 3 chapters: nature, revelation, scripture, church
3. God the Creator, 8 chapters: divine nature, creation, humanity, morality, spirits, original sin
4. Christ the Redeemer, 6 chapters: Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, Son of God, Trinity, incarnation, eternal life, one and only Savior
5. the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, 3 chapters: grace, faith hope and charity, the gift and gifts of the Holy Spirit
6.the Church, 5 chapters: mystery, identity, sacramentality, pastoral structure, things to come
October 31, 2013
According to the author’s introduction to this volume, this text is promised to do for Catholic theology of this age what St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa did for the Middle Ages. Such a claim set an incredibly high standard for evaluation, one that this book did not remotely approach. Instead, this was a freshman introduction to Catholic apologetics, and not the best at that.
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