God, Christ and Us [Paperback]

Herbert McCabe (Author), Brian Davies (Editor), Rowan Williams (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2004

This collection is of Herbert McCabe's sermons and spiritual addresses. Never platitudinous or short of ideas, these chapters are filled with questions, arguments and solid intellectual content. The major influence on McCabe was the Bible but he was also a devoted admirer of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, whose ideas saturated his public speaking. From the Bible, McCabe derived the notion of God leading us to happiness through the work of grace and through the life and teachings of Jesus. From Aquinas, McCabe derived a hatred of idolatry, a powerful sense of the incomprehensibility of God and a recognition that we depend on God's gracious revelation of himself rather that what we can work out on the basis of our limited understanding. A presiding theme in this book is that we are saved because of the life of someone fully human.

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'An irresistibly direct, earthy no-nonsense refresher course in Christian Faith as such...A brilliantly unususal guide to Christian and (in the fullest sense) Catholic reality, accessible to practically an reader.' Archbishop Rowan Williams (Blurb from reviewer ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Herbert McCabe was a Dominican Friar and theologian of outstanding originality who died in 2001. He was deeply influential on philosophers such as Anthony Kenny and Alasdair MacIntyre and poets and writers like Terry Eagleton and Seamus Heaney. > --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826472796
• ISBN-13: 978-0826472793
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,385,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to Christian theology, May 9, 2004

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This review is from: God, Christ and Us (Paperback)

The general thrust of these sermons is against idolatry in thought and action - thinking of God as the kind of God we would choose to be if it were up to us to be divine, for whatever lofty reason, and then worshipping our hideous creation as if it were in fact the true and living God. The main focus of these sermons is on Jesus of Nazareth - and on how his life with us and his cruel death at our hands reveal to us the interior life of God the Trinity. The enduring lesson of these sermons is that, as we are freely redeemed by his death and resurrection, our lives with each other, here and in the world to come, are no longer a distorted image of God's own life. Indeed, the point is that we come to share in God' own boundless life and that grace somehow obliterates the difference between his life and ours. McCabe considers a number of traditional Christian themes in the light of these basic insights, and his wonderfully dry wit effectively punctures the seriousness with which we take our own fixations on gods made in our image. This is theology of a rare depth - enlivened by the best thinking in the Christian tradition, rooted in the circumstances of oral delivery and accessible to everyone with an open mind.