{"product_id":"the-theology-of-robert-barron","title":"The Theology of Robert Barron","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Theology of Robert Barron  Matthew Levering explores the key themes and sources of Bishop Robert Barrons theological vision  tracing the development of his thought from his years as a student in the 1970s and 80s to the present. Levering surveys Barrons theology by studying his critical engagements with a cast of thinkers from his formative period  including Andrew Greeley  Michel Corbin  Raymond Brown  Edward Schillebeeckx  John P. Meier  George Lindbeck  Alasdair MacIntyre  Stanley Hauerwas  and Richard Rohr. Levering shows how Barron appropriated  elaborated  and critiqued the thought of these interlocutors to develop a powerful and nuanced theology of his own. At the center of Barrons theological vision is the non-competitive Creator God  who radically transcends the order of finite beings while sustaining all things by his power and presence. Because God does not compete ontologically with his creatures  he is able to come so near as to become one of us without ceasing to be himself. We encounter Christ as the central character of the drama that unfolds in Sacred Scripture. Barron emphasizes that Christianity is an embodied  communal way of being. To become a Christian is to enter into a distinctive cultural milieu  venerate its saints  adopt its sensibility  and embrace its practices. Levering shows how Barron integrates these speculative  moral  and spiritual dimensions into a theological picture that  although deeply and distinctly Catholic  is also oriented to the world outside the Church and to evangelism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985335414837,"sku":"ByrdShop_1685780172","price":65.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781685780173.jpg?v=1770855279","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-theology-of-robert-barron","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}