To Light a Fire on the Earth
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age
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4.8 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith
As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith is.
In this compelling new book—drawn from conversations with and narrated by award-winning Vatican journalist John L. Allen, Jr.—Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, proclaims in vivid language the goodness and truth of the Catholic tradition. Through Barron’s smart, practical, artistic, and theological observations as well as personal anecdotes—from engaging atheists on YouTube to discussing his days as a young diehard baseball fan from Chicago—To Light a Fire on the Earth covers prodigious ground.
Touching on everything from Jesus to prayer, science, movies, atheism, the spiritual life, the fate of Church in modern times, beauty, art, and social media, Barron reveals why the Church matters today and how Catholics can intelligently engage a skeptical world.
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Barron, the auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and host of the PBS documentary Catholicism, passionately proclaims the beauty, joy, and truth of the Catholic faith in these wide-ranging and illuminating conversations with journalist Allen (The Global War on Christians). Convinced that if people can grasp the beauty of Catholicism they will convert, Barron advocates a new evangelization. He's opposed to what he calls a "beige Catholicism," a bland and watered-down faith that he says becomes virtually indistinguishable from the "beige" versions of other religions. He firmly believes that if people are attracted by the beauty of Catholicism or by the goodness of the lives of its saints, they'll begin to look for the truths that underlie this beauty and goodness. Allen and Barron also cover debates about the relationship between religion and science and how Catholicism must confront a sexualized culture. They demonstrate the ways that the beauty, goodness, and truth of the faith fit in with modern science, but take a predictably conservative approach to dealing with sexual impulses. These illuminating, easy-to-read, and genial conversations reveal Barron's passion for his faith and zeal for introducing it to others.
