Faith Matters
Reflections on the Christian Life
Published on 17. June 2019
226 pages
978-1-5326-7039-8 (ISBN)
Description
In a day in which Christians too often reduce faith to mere sentimentality and atheists decry it as superstitious nonsense, Fr. Kerry Walters offers a series of reflections intended to show that, indeed, faith matters. Drawn from his popular weekly newspaper column "Faith Matters," these short meditations explore Christian faith from the perspectives of doctrine, spirituality, ethics, politics, art and science, the saints, and the holy seasons that mark the Christian year and set the rhythm of Christian living.
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Kerry Walters, professor of philosophy emeritus and independent Catholic priest, is the author or editor of over forty books and hundreds of articles. Several of his books have been translated. Recognition of his books include two Catholic Press Awards. He lives in central Pennsylvania and pastors the parish of Holy Spirit American National Catholic Church.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Part 1: This Christian Thing
- Philosopher Jesus
- In Defense of Religion
- Biblical Illiteracy
- Stiff-Necked Christians
- Christian Mosaic
- Stripping Down
- Meeting the Enemy
- God-Wired
- Slaves and Masters
- Wedding Joy
- Part 2: The Spiritual Life
- Loneliness
- Zombies
- Original Blessing
- Gorged But Starving
- Kissing God
- God's Need for Love
- Becoming Prayer
- Divine Nada
- We Are God's Wombs
- Grace-Mobbed
- Part 3: Being Good
- Nothing Is Permitted
- Capital Punishment Is a Sin
- Reclaiming Prudence
- Against Moral Relativism
- Getting Clear on Conscience
- Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Moral Imagination
- Rehabilitating Shame
- Doing What Thou Wilt
- Our Sex-Obsessed Prophets
- Part 4: Culture and Community
- Weathering a New Dark Age
- All Sheep, No Goats
- Breathing in Hiroshima
- When Darkness Descends
- Whitewashing the Faith
- The Jesus Line
- Golden Rule Justice
- Democratizing Evil
- Christian Nation Basics
- Moral Distribution of Wealth
- Part 5: All Saints
- Saint of the Gutter
- Serving Christ in Friends and Strangers
- In Praise of Erasmus
- Eye to Eye
- The Grand Experiment
- A Lesson from the Gulag
- He Got Christ Out of the Churches
- Oxford's Inklings
- The Dumb Ox
- A Sacrosanct Right
- Part 6: Behold the Beauty
- Gauguin's Questions
- The Sistine Gem
- Like Anemones
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Poetry is God's Language
- Naked Intent
- Luke's Icon
- The Real da Vinci Code
- Ragged Edges
- Starry Night, Golden Sun
- Part 7: Mosaic of Beliefs
- The Scandal of Scientific Illiteracy
- Denying Evolution
- Fool's Gold
- Heart Knowledge
- Pretend Believers
- Double Standard
- Unintelligent Design
- Big Bang Boogie
- Searching for Common Ground
- When Science Oversteps
- Part 8: To Everything There Is a Season
- Stretching Forward (Advent)
- The Great O's (Advent)
- They Who Are Wisest (Christmas)
- Yuletide Magic (Christmas)
- Rachel Weeping (Feast of the Holy Innocents)
- Soul Journey (Epiphany)
- Becoming Saints (Lent)
- The True Myth (Easter)
- Sign of the Phoenix (Easter)
- Light and Darkness (Feast of the Transfiguration)
