Fr. Barron’s New Book Plumbs Pop Culture in Search of the Divine

Fr. Barron’s New Book Plumbs Pop Culture in Search of the Divine May 3, 2015

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Over at Aleteia, there’s a nice article about something that is very close to the heart of Love Among the Ruins. Here’s a taste:

Seeds of the Word, a new release from Word on Fire, gathers Fr. Barron’s commentary on film, books, politics, and culture into a wide-ranging collection of essays. The first section, “Imago Dei” – easily the most fun to peruse – retraces the wry wisdom of Woody Allen (“Kierkegaard, Woody Allen, and the Secret to Lasting Joy”), the bleak, violent landscapes of the Coen Brothers (“True Grit and the Everlasting Arms”), and the human dramas of big budget blockbusters (“Spider-Man, Iron Man, Superman, and the God-Man”), uncovering elements of theological truth throughout.

“Take and Read” dissects books as different as The Hobbit and The Audacity of Hope, while “City on a Hill” offers a fresh realignment of the Catholic perspective on politics, lauding “the great both/and of Catholic social teaching” and lamenting the “breakdown of moral argument.” The book ends with the cultural smörgåsbord of “Rays of Truth,” where baseball, the vampire craze, and even the new atheism are all revealed to be “charged with the grandeur of God.”

Read the rest here.


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