Description: How do Christians resolve the dissonance between the truth of Christ's life, death, and resurrection as the universal key to human meaning, and our increased consciousness of the diverse, pluralistic world in which we live? Robert Goizueta notes that this tension raises important questions about the ethical as well as the theological defensibility of any religious position - particularly when so much contemporary violence arises from religious rationales. Ultimately, Goizueta argues, the answer for Christians ""will only be discovered as we, through our everyday actions, respond to Christ's claim to be the Way, and the Truth, and the Life by embodying that claim in our actions.""
Brief description: Roberto S. Goizueta is the Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Boston College. A past-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, he is author of Caminemos con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment.
Review Quotes: "Theologians who have waited anxiously for Roberto S. Goizueta's latest volume will not be disappointed. Exploring a Christology that weaves together the insights of liberation theology and theological aesthetics, Christ Our Companion offers a challenge to Christians to live out the experience of Jesus as their Way, Truth, and Light. Focusing on the lived religious practices of everyday Latino/as, Goizueta's constructive Christology emphasizes the need for incarnational theology that is nourished by the Catholic sacramental unity of symbols and that which they symbolize. Goizueta's text demonstrates that an emphasis on the aesthetic does not diminish but instead informs liberation theologies. His ressourcement from the margins of Catholic tradition through Latino/a popular Catholicism is a vital contribution to contemporary contextual theologies."
- Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Scranton