The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path
The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path
Couldn't load pickup availability
In the modern world, Christianity has come to be seen by many as an unintellectual, uninspiring, and unthreatening worldview. But the classical tradition of mystics and scholars reveals something quite different: the most engaging, surprising, and strange of all the religious paths.
The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path is an instructive guide through the breathtaking reality of what it means to be a Christian. Bishop Barron not only lays out his famous three paths to holiness—finding the center, knowing you’re a sinner, and realizing your life is not about you—but also concretizes them with practical actions. Drawing on both literary and spiritual masters, Bishop Barron invites readers to intimacy with God through imitation of his own self-gift in Christ.
More Info
More Info
Share
What People are Saying
“What a wonderful book! Drawing on a wide variety of sources, theological and literary, Robert Barron helps us find a way through the darkness of our imaginations. What a gift!”
—Stanley Hauerwas, Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Duke University Divinity School
“Bishop Barron has the rare talent of making ancient, timeless truths applicable to our twenty-first-century worldview, then taking that worldview and helping us reshape it into the mold of that immutable wisdom. As a convert from a lifetime of being Protestant, I appreciate his winsome ways of leading us to beauty, then goodness, and finally truth. These were no small stepping stones on my journey to a deeper faith. And this is what he does with The Strangest Way, reminding us that the hope of Christ is hope for the whole world, even though it’s so antithetical to our culture steeped in modernism; in fact, this is precisely why it’s the hope. We urgently need this message more than ever.”
—Tsh Oxenreider, author of At Home in the World, Shadow & Light, and Bitter & Sweet
“Bishop Barron once again shows that he has a special gift for revealing the general and complex truths of philosophy and theology in the vitality and color of the particular: through art, through the lives of exemplary Christians, and in our everyday experiences. This book is a timely reminder that Christianity is not beige, bland, or reflective of the status quo, but strange, mysterious, beautiful, and profoundly life-altering. More importantly, Barron urges us here not just simply to have orthodoxy (right belief), but orthopraxy (right practice)—and he is helpfully specific about the practices we need to adopt in order to walk the strange path of Christianity with more purpose, direction, and attention.”
—Jennifer A. Frey, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the Sacred and Profane Love podcast