The Priority of Christ
I am reading a book called The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism for my Systematic Theology course. It is a fantastic work. Robert Barron is wicked smart: a brilliant theologian and scholar, and learned philosopher, and a gifted writer. This book reads, at times, like poetry.
Example: in a section of chapter 8, where he is describing the effects of Descartes’ philosophy on (modernist) theology, he writes the following…
“The skeptical self could shake off everything but itself… Thus the lonely but unassailably secure Cartesian ego, standing amidst the ruins of culture, intelligence, and sense experience, emerged as the sure foundation for knowledge” (137).
Sentences like those make this book a joy to read.
If you are interested at all in the convergence of philosophy and theology, or in how the ideas that shape the world even shape the way we do theology, or if you want to read Deep Church on steroids, I recommend this book to you.
