Yes, Please.
Enticing Title.
It's the new book out by Carl Anderson, Grand PooBah, Supreme Knight of Columbus ("the world's largest Catholic service organization which owns/runs a billion dollar insurance business), and a theological priest professor at Catholic U. Fr. Jose Granados. "Called to Love" may be purchased at the CIC (http://www.cicdc.org/). They gave a brief talk today at the Catholic Information Center and signed books. I will read and review it later.
Carl Anderson, who taught for years at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (and is a married family man) said that the "new evangelism" calls for new innovative ways to spread the gospel. Fr. Granados encouraged that the meaning of the Gospel should compel a powerful "yes" from people, (just as Mary's "yes" incarnated the greatest Love on the Planet). The book is supposed to be a new lay-friendly exposition on the Theology of the Body. That term throws off and turns off some people but this book hopes to retrieve the gems of JPIIs thoughts on this, which were rather progressive and ancient at the same time, in a new understandable jargon.
I see right out of the box that old Catholic buggaboo (I say through an old Presbyterian lense) which tends to confuse all emotion with sensuality and dismiss it all throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. That may be an unfair reading at first blush- so you get the book and tell me what you think.
Thanks to the CIC for kindly hosting these enriching interesting events-
Enticing Title.
It's the new book out by Carl Anderson, Grand PooBah, Supreme Knight of Columbus ("the world's largest Catholic service organization which owns/runs a billion dollar insurance business), and a theological priest professor at Catholic U. Fr. Jose Granados. "Called to Love" may be purchased at the CIC (http://www.cicdc.org/). They gave a brief talk today at the Catholic Information Center and signed books. I will read and review it later.
Carl Anderson, who taught for years at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (and is a married family man) said that the "new evangelism" calls for new innovative ways to spread the gospel. Fr. Granados encouraged that the meaning of the Gospel should compel a powerful "yes" from people, (just as Mary's "yes" incarnated the greatest Love on the Planet). The book is supposed to be a new lay-friendly exposition on the Theology of the Body. That term throws off and turns off some people but this book hopes to retrieve the gems of JPIIs thoughts on this, which were rather progressive and ancient at the same time, in a new understandable jargon.
I see right out of the box that old Catholic buggaboo (I say through an old Presbyterian lense) which tends to confuse all emotion with sensuality and dismiss it all throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. That may be an unfair reading at first blush- so you get the book and tell me what you think.
Thanks to the CIC for kindly hosting these enriching interesting events-
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