Mind, Heart, and Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome

by Robert P. George, R.J. Snell

In a series of fascinating interviews, a cradle Catholic (Robert P. George) and an adult convert (R. J. Snell), offer the stories of sixteen converts, each a public intellectual or leading voice in their respective fields, and each making a significant contribution to the life of the Church.

Mind, Heart, and Soul is a Surprised by Truth for a new generation. It will reinvigorate the faith of Catholics and answer questions or address hurdles those discerning entering the Church may have…by people have had the same questions and the same road.
 
While some of the converts are well-known, their stories are not. Here they speak for themselves, providing the reasons for belief that prompted these accomplished men and women to embrace the ancient faith.
 
Included are interviews with a bishop, a leading theologian and priest, a member of the International Theological Commission, a former megachurch pastor, a prominent pro-life scholar, professors from Harvard and other universities, as well as journalists and writers, novelists and scholars. Each are interviewed by another leading scholar, many of whom are themselves converts and familiar with the hesitations, anxieties, discoveries, and hopes of those who discover the Faith. 
 
These conversion stories remind us that the Catholic Church retains her vitality, able to provide answers and reasons for hope to new generations of believers, always sustained by the Holy Spirit. It is all too-easy to become discouraged in our day and age, but God never fails to call people to Himself, as evidenced by these remarkable stories.
 

Genres: Religion, Catholic, Christianity, Philosophy, Biography

266 pages, Hardcover

Published November 12, 2018

About the author

McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. George has been called America's "most influential conservative Christian thinker."[2] He is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and the Herbert W. Vaughan senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. He is also a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.

Reviews

[Trevor Carlsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is structured as a series of interviews with Catholic converts. The stories are interesting. I found some of the interviews lacking, not in the sense that they were not compelling and interesting stories, but that the discussions were too condensed. I would have preferred a deeper discussion on those instances.

[Matthew P. McCormick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book

If you have a familiarity with PhDs, friend, acquaintances, family, there will be some resonance with this text. You will be more readily able to appreciate thought patterns, approaches to understanding the well educated use. Neither better nor worse than other more pedestrian forms of analysis of truth, just different. Luckily, the Church can speak as well to this audience.

[Jules · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first 4 chapters were good, but chapters 5-16 were stupendous. Easily the best book I’ve read all year.