Brown seriously questioned the historical validity of various aspects of Christianity, such as the Virgin Birth. There's another benchmark I use. If the National Catholic Reporter(a heterodox "Catholic" weekly) falls over over themselves with praise for a theologian, as they do Brown, I avoid that person's writings and thought like the plague. Trust me, he was no centrist.
For me, it's orthodoxy or nothing. I trust "centrist" theologians about as far as I can throw them. (Well, with your bad knee Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody.)
I've have read some of Sheed's Theology and Sanity and was quite impressed and I know the same caliber can be expected of Sheen and Guardini. Those will definitely be put on the wish list at Amazon.
What I'm looking for are more indepth, historical, and technical treatments of Christology. Something at the college or seminary level.
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I have a friend who refers to it as the National Arian Reporter.
What I'm looking for are more indepth, historical, and technical treatments of Christology. Something at the college or seminary level.
If I think of anything, I'll ping you. I'm sure you already have Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, as well as Aquinas.