Theology and SanityVatican II issued an urgent call for the laity to take a more active role in the life of the Church. What should the life of the Christian believer be like? How are average lay Christians called to help save the world? How does theology fit into the picture? One of Frank Sheed's most popular books, this ideal volume for the layman shows the practical aspects of theology in the life of a Christian believer. Logic, clarity, and simplicity permeate this eminently readable book. Drawing from his fifty years of street-corner preaching, as well as his long career as an author, lecturer and publisher, Sheed understands and communicates better than anyone the importance of theology and its relationship to living sanely in today's world. A brilliant synthesis of the Catholic view of life. |
Contents
The Mind Works on Infinity | |
Redemption | |
The Redeemer | |
The Redeeming Sacrifice | |
The Kingdom | |
Dispensing the Gifts | |
The Mystical Body of Christ | |
Life in the Body | |
Life after Death | |
God Tells | |
Three Persons in One Nature | |
Father Son and Holy Spirit | |
Some Further Precisions | |
Concluding This Part | |
CREATION | |
God as Creator 11 The Created Universe | |
Angels Matter | |
The Testing of Angels and | |
The Fall of | |
Between the Fall and the Redemption | |
The Mission of Christ | |
The End of the World | |
ONESELF | |
Habituation to Reality | |
Habituation to | |
The Insufficiency of | |
Sufficiency in the Church | |
The Life of Grace | |
The Landscape of Reality | |
Idyll and Fact | |
NOTES | |