Rekindle your Christic imagination.
Every true period of renewal in the Church has been marked by a re-discovery of the person of Jesus Christ. The Second Vatican Council inaugurated such a re-discovery. It asked Christians to âreturn to the sourcesââespecially the New Testament and those early theologian-bishops known as âthe fathers of the Churchââas a way of envisioning anew their faith in Jesus.
A half-century later, Father Robert Imbelli (Ph.D., Yale University) pilots you through this mental safari into the unmapped regions of your imagination. An award-winning theologian at Boston College, Fr. Imbelli leads you back to the Source (with a capital âSâ)âthe clear waters of your faithâwhere your unclouded image of Jesus rests and, like a river rock, receives polish.
Fr. Imbelliâs studies in Rome overlapped with the Second Vatican Council; he brings his personal intersection with that historical episode of the Churchâs lifetime to bear in this audio course by returning to the helpful distinction of the objective and subjective: âTransfigured Christ/Transfigured Christiansââthe Church, and you.
The term âChristic,â as Fr. Imbelli uses it, is meant to call forth various dimensions of the Mystery of Jesus. In 9 lectures, you will stretch your imagination, drag the lake of your own experience, and take His Mystery as âthe Mystery of a Personal Presenceâ that is pervasive and life-giving, and finds its fullest sacramental reality in the Eucharist.
Be transfigured.