There really is a creator and a singer the creation and the song are really different from the creator and the singer and without the creator and the singer there would really be no creation nor song. Barron recalls Herbert McCabe’s comparison of the relationship of creator and creation with the relationship of singer and song. He places “special focus on the issue of primary causality and secondary causality in relation to both nature and the will, arguing for a non-interruptive coinherence of God and the world. In Part 4 Barron treats the doctrine of God. Faith in Christ includes knowledge of God and Christ capacious enough to order all the rest of knowledge from any other source. Here Balthasar’s reflections on the coinherent inclusion of pistis and gnosis come into play. Faith in Christ is not itself naked, but is coinherent with a knowledge that is privileged because it is prior and cannot be reduced to, or subsumed under, any other knowledge. Christian faith cannot be simply contrasted with the knowledge assumed by reason. Part 3 develops a christocentric epistemology. In Part 2 Barron uses this Christology to explore nine sacred scenes from the Gospels, organized under the headings of Jesus as Gatherer, as Warrior, and as Lord. Part 1 treats the priority of Christ developing a Christology “that takes seriously the dense particularity and spiritual complexity of the picture of Jesus as it emerges in the New Testament narratives. The “postliberal” no longer fears the stigma of appearing illiberal.īarron’s book has five parts.
The “postliberal” liberal moment is a Catholic moment which allows the recapture of the metaphysics of creation without the hermeneutical suspicions of modern philosophy. “Postliberal” is related to a “postmodernism” which realizes that the foundationalisms of Descartes and Locke do not actually provide a foundation commensurate with the structure of faith to be built on it. Postitively it recaptures the insight of the classical Christian dogmatic tradition. Negatively it refers to the fatigue of liberal theology which attempted to ground theology in the quagmire of religious experience. “Postliberal” has several related meanings. A Catholic theology derived from Aquinas, Newman, Lonergan, Lindbeck, and Balthasar and occasioned by the exhaustion of the liberal theological project. A radically christocentric theology is the result. Robert Barron seizes the opportunity that postliberal thinking offers to Christian theology and a distinctly Christian metaphysics.
The title of this book states its primary thesis: the epistemological priority of Christ. SHERIDAN, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, 278 Whites Bridge Road, STANDISH, ME 04084
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