The Incarnation: Keeping God in the Flesh

Father Ron Rolheiser, a Catholic priest who is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, as well as a columnist and author, continues his series of retreat-style lectures with this two-part presentation, based primarily on Scripture and such authoritative figures as Augustine, concerning the meaning and implications of the doctrine asserting that the faithful constitute the so-called Mystical Body of Christ. Like earlier releases in his series—Sacred Fire: An Anthropology and Spirituality of Sexuality (VL-3/11) and Dark Nights and Doubts in Our Lives: A Failure of Faith—Or Imagination? (VL-3/12)—The Incarnation is very simply produced, with Rolheiser standing at a podium to deliver the lectures (backed only by superimposed pictures of quoted writers). Rolheiser is an amiable, knowledgeable, and articulate theologian, who analyzes the meaning of Christian community in terms comprehensible to the average layperson. His main subject also leads him into a discussion of other issues, including how prayer and reconciliation should be understood within the communal context. Recommended. [Note: Ron Rolheiser's Keeping Incarnate: The Paschal Mystery is also newly available.] Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek)