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The late Fr Colin McKenna, our parish priest, suggested we also add something each Lent in order to nourish our soul spiritually during this season of renewal. In this learned and gestalt tour of Christianity through the eyes of a diverse group of remarkable thinkers, ministers, poets, arti During Lent in our family, it is tradition to give up something daily that we cherish to recall the ultimate sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. Reading this book was my chosen nourishment for this Lenten season. This is the kind of work which combines deep spiritual insight with scholarship, and expresses both in unpretentious language which is nevertheless as conceptually rich and precise as the subject matter demands.moreĭuring Lent in our family, it is tradition to give up something daily that we cherish to recall the ultimate sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. Barron's explication of often subtle doctrines and opaque scriptural passages adds a depth to this work which is very often absent in popular apologetics.

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This is the kind of work which combines deep spiritual insight with scholarship, and expresses both in unpretentious language which is n This is a fantastic book: engaging throughout, well-written and full of insightful and profound Biblical Exegesis this is a must read for any Christian, and would be helpful for the engaged non-believer too. This is a fantastic book: engaging throughout, well-written and full of insightful and profound Biblical Exegesis this is a must read for any Christian, and would be helpful for the engaged non-believer too. This book is about coming to vision through Christ.” - Robert Barron, from the Prelude. And Thomas Aquinas said that the ultimate goal of the Christian life is a ‘beatific vision,’ an act of seeing. Teilhard de Chardin said, with great passion, that his mission as a Christian thinker was to help people see. Origen remarked that holiness is seeing with the eyes of Christ. What unites figures as diverse as James Joyce, Caravaggio, John Milton, the architect of Chartres, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the later Bob Dylan is a peculiar and distinctive take on things, a style, a way, which flows finally from Jesus of Nazareth. Te “Christianity is, above all, a way of seeing.

“Christianity is, above all, a way of seeing.

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