Recommending Books
Over at phatmass, a website for Catholic young adults, which is generally pretty kickin', there is included a section of book recommendations. I generally like phatmass, and approve of a lot of the things they do, which is really about getting us all invested in the Catholic culture, to appreciate our history and our future, and to "rep the pope," as it were. However, browsing the book recommendations, I noticed a trend. I posted about it on their phorum, to little response. Here's my post in it's entirety.
Ok...I was looking at the book recommendations in the "shop" section, and, is it just me, or is there a very, very heavy emphasis on apologetics? #1 is a Karl Keating Klassic....oh, KKK, thats not good :-P....Four books on apologetics, and one on the interior life, and that one has a disclaimer to let you know it's not about apologetics. Because that was my concern.I'd appreciate all of your thoughts on the matter. Especially all those wacky phatmassers out there (ah, I love you all).
I have to say I'm a little bothered by this. Ive spent a lot of time doing apologetics in my life, a lot of time, but, and maybe this is just me, I found when I devoted most of my Christian activity to that aim - when I read the bible looking for evidence, when I read tons of apologetics books, when I endlessly debated and debated (and let me tell you, I'm a ferocious debater), it hurt me spiritually. I essentially neglected my interior life, my prayer, my relationship with God, my spiritual formation for three years. And then, like it did for so many, The Passion of the Christ changed everything.
I was pretty much the head of the Catholic community on Zboard, but two weeks after seeing the movie, I resigned. I stopped apologetics work altogether. I realized that, underneath two-thousand years of sophistication and clarification and thought, there was quite simply the most extraordinary thing ever to happen to a person this world has ever seen, something so wiry and intense, so steeped in sand, blood, sweat, wood, clay, and voices that I had to step back and ask myself "why is the location of the comma so important? What does it matter what the definition of "all" is? What does it matter at all?"
Maybe it's just me. I don't know. But there is so, so much more to our faith than arguing with protestants. I think we disrespect God when we reduce it so far.
So, I offer to you a book recommendation. Maybe place it at number six, or give it a mention in a sidebar. It's called Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel, and it will change how you see everything. It doesn't talk about doctrine - doctrine isn't really its concern - and instead, it really revels in the sacramental configuration of the whole world, it wonders at the mystery of God. Nothing is meaningless, Christ tells us. Nothing is pointless. Nothing, nothing at all, is in vain. Consider it my gift to the pham.
posted by Seatbelt Blue @ 7:32 AM
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I suspect that Keating himself would defer to Weigel or other devotional books. Romano Guardini's The Lord or Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ anyone?
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