What does it mean to believe in God? This question still provokes a
recalcitrant world. In spite of the apparent disinterest of our
age, the religious question continues to task and to vex, sometimes
quietly, sometimes dramatically. When religious divisions occasion
civil strife, believers are faced with an even more radical
inquiry. Wherein lies the real truth about Christian doctrine and
its place in our lives? Can we appeal to any authority for belief?
How do we escape the suspicions of a skeptical age? In this book,
Romanus Cessario explores these questions and suggests responses
taken from the history of theology. He offers a readable account of
the accumulated wisdom of the Christian tradition concerning the
faith-question, citing as major authorities the saints, those who
have realized the will of God throughout the ages. Faith supplies
not only the assurance but also the substance of things hoped for.
The experience of Israel teaches that "God has foreseen something
better for us"; this "something better" resides in the Word of God
that takes flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Because it keeps
being born again in the heart of every believer, as St. Thomas
Aquinas reminds us, it leads us to the blessedness of eternal life.
Since the end of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, authors have
dealt mainly with the existential dimensions of Christian life.
This volume, the fruit of more than two decades of contemplation on
the virtues of Christian life, complements these as well as
historical studies about faith. It presents a coherent meditation
on faith's principal concerns: its acts of belief and confession,
and its character as a virtue in the Christian life. Father
Cessario explains how the mysteries of faith--what the Christian
believer professes each Sunday in the Creed--transform our lives
and make us living images of the Triune God. Consequently, this
book will meet a wide range of needs by answering the questions of
the informed reader, animating study groups and parish seminars,
and stimulating the ordinary believer to appropriate "the depth of
the riches and the wisdom and knowledge of God." ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Romanus Cessario, O.P., is professor of systematic theology at St.
John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. Before assuming this
post in the fall of 1995, Father Cessario taught at the Dominican
House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He served there as Academic
Dean from 1979 to 1987. He is the author of numerous works,
including The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, Le Virtu, and
Perpetual Angelus: As the Saints Pray the Rosary, and presently
serves on the editorial boards of The Thomist, the French journal
Pierre d'Angle, and the National Catholic Register.
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