God's Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love

God's Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love

The Cross of Christ has left a crater at the center of history, an inflection of sacrificial love toward which everything before and after this event is ordered and properly understood. That Christ is the Alpha and Omegaâ€”the logic, the meaning of creation itself, from whom the drama of salvation emanates and toward whom it movesâ€”is a central but often neglected doctrine of Catholic Christianity. Though it is a mystery that will ever elude rational explication, sufficient traces of it can be found. Drawing primarily on the insights of RenÃ© Girard and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Gil Bailieâ€™s new book is a work of reconnaissance, an effort to locate and explicate some of these traces. He presents a narrative of both rich and subtle texturesâ€”the story of Godâ€™s gamble in and on history.

â€œGodâ€™s Gamble is a vividly written, engaging account, at once personal and provocative, of manâ€™s search for meaning. Designed for a general audience, Bailieâ€™s unique telling of the story of Christian revelation invites the reader to a rich reflection on the meaning of the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and to deeper readings in the grand intellectual tradition of the Christian West.â€â€”+CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

â€œThis is a masterful synthesis of insights from Girard and Balthasar, among others, in an attempt to take seriously the proposition that Christ is the fulcrum upon which all of human history turns. Bailie accepts Balthasarâ€™s judgment that eschatology is the storm center of the theology of our times and carefully unpacks the issues of greatest pastoral relevance.â€â€”TRACEY ROWLAND, Dean, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne)

â€œThis remarkable book is both demanding and deeply penetrating, a Girardian tour de force plumbing the depths of the current postmodern malaise and presenting a rich Christology and a robust anthropology, both of which will challenge readers to see salvation history with new eyes.â€â€”CARL E. OLSON, author of Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? and co-editor of Called To Be the Children of God

â€œWith Godâ€™s Gamble, Gil Bailie has written his masterwork. He shares the fruits of a lifetime of patient reflection upon the innovative anthropological hypotheses of RenÃ© Girard and the fearless theological explorations of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The result is a breathtaking synthesis that meditates on all the most puzzling questions of human history. In a spirit of humility, Bailie investigates what we can know about both the origin and the destiny of humankind. It is a wondrous history that becomes all the more fascinating as we continue to learn more about it through evolutionary science, cultural anthropology, and theological contemplation.â€â€”CHRISTOPHER S. MORRISSEY, Seminary of Christ the King, British Columbia

â€œAs the civilization formed by Catholic Christianity renounces its own patrimony, many have forgotten what it means to be human. In Gil Bailie such lost souls have a guide to return to sanity, and a fearless one at that, willing to lead them, and us all, through the difficulties of violence, death, sin, sacrifice, resurrection, and hope. An outstanding book, and one Iâ€™m eager to read again.â€â€”R. J. SNELL, Director, Center on the University and Intellectual Life, Witherspoon Institute
Country USA
Manufacturer Angelico Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-11-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Angelico Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-11-01
Format	Kindle eBook

God's Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love

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