The Trinity: Life of God, Hope for Humanity:
Towards a Theology of Communion. By Thomas
J. Norris (Hyde Park, New York, New City Press,
2009)
Thomas Norris is a priest of the Diocese of
Ossory (Ireland) and professor in systematic
theology at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. A
member of the International Theological
Commission, he has authored ten books and
numerous articles. In The Trinity: Life of
God, Hope for Humanity, Father Norris
confronts the first of the mysteries of faith, a
mystery that, tragically, speaks least to many
believers. Hans Urs von Balthasar once observed
that the greatest tragedy in the history of
theology was the separation of theology from
spirituality. Thomas Norris has in this work
helped to heal that fatal separation. Here one
finds a theology and spirituality of communion.
Professor Norris shows how the Christian
spiritual way of communion is well represented
today especially by the remarkable Chiara Lubich,
the founder of the Focolare Movement, one of the
great Catholic movements of spiritual reform
today. The anti-individualist spirituality of
communion is, as this work shows, central to
Christianity and indeed to being an authentic
human being. Communion unites persons one to the
other in a cause greater than themselves. It is
difficult to conceive how any considerate person
will not be aided by this theologically
thoughtful and spiritually moving book. (From
the Foreword by David C. Tracy Professor
Emeritus University of Chicago Divinity School.)
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