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Winner of a second-place award in the church professional category from the Catholic Media Association.
The mere mention of “truth” will often start arguments, even among the best of friends and the closest of family members. To avoid conflict, Church leaders often side-step the topic altogether. In Let’s Talk about Truth, Ann M. Garrido shares practical ways that preachers and others charged with moral and spiritual leadership in the Church can stop backing away from the topic and instead help Catholics recover the practice of truth as a way of life.
In Let’s Talk about Truth, award-winning author and associate professor of homiletics Ann M. Garrido shows Catholic preachers, teachers, and other leaders ways to approach the contentious topic of truth with confidence that the Church’s intellectual and pastoral traditions are squarely on their side. She explores truth as a multifaceted reality that serves four foundational roles in the Christian life. Truth:
equips us to see the world as it actually isinforms our opinions and assists us with making judgmentsshapes the way we communicate with each otherenables us to build long-lasting relationships with one another
Garrido’s clarity and conviction inspire confidence and the practical homiletic tools she offers are readily applicable to teaching and other forms of Church leadership. Sample preaching texts illustrate key points and show readers how to understand truth as a way of life that the Christian must pursue. Each chapter includes a summary of key insights, a list of practical takeaways, and probing questions for self-reflection or group dialogue. Garrido also provides a five-point assessment tool for preachers in a brief appendix to facilitate their willingness and growth toward better preaching about the practice of truth in the Christian life.
From the Publisher
This Book Helps You Talk About Truth
The word “truth” appears in the Bible more than 200 times. It is also a frequent theme in the stories of saints and writings of recent popes. But many believe that we find ourselves in a “post-truth” society today. In Let’s Talk about Truth, Ann M. Garrido—associate professor of homiletics at the Aquinas Institute of Theology—argues that truth is such a central theme in Christianity that it is the duty of preachers to talk about it, to know the Catholic tradition’s wisdom on it, and to share it in a way that can be understood and remembered. Garrido will help you to stop backing away from the topic and instead help Catholics recover the practice of truth as a way of life.
Parts of the Book Include:
Truth as a Way of Seeing the World
Truth means having a mental picture in your head that is aligned with reality: You don’t want to be seeing things that aren’t really there. You do want to be able to see accurately the things that are there.
Truth as a Way of Forming Good Judgments
Doing truth, at the most foundational level, is about making sure that you have the best grasp possible of what would widely be referred to as “the facts.” Different circumstances factor into the way that a person makes meaning of and judges the world, making truth claims of this nature often more difficult to adjudicate than truth claims related to facts.
Truth as a Way of Communicating with Others
When emphasizing the importance of truthfulness in the current context, the message may be critiqued as political, but truthfulness is a fundamental faith issue. Christianity, too, stakes its survival on the ability of words to communicate. You cannot avoid the topic for fear of ruffling feathers.
Truth as a Way of Being in a Relationship
Sometimes your congregation will contrast truth with mercy. They will feel pulled between being faithful to a friend and telling them the truth. Your job is to help hearers understand that the contrasts they pose are two sides of the same coin. Living mercy will sometimes require offering the mercy of truth. And living truth will sometimes require hanging in there in relationships, even if you don’t feel like it.
Truth, Next Steps
Preaching and teaching about truth are never for the faint of heart. But truth is a central theme in our Christian faith. We may talk about it. It is a source of great confusion and tension for our current hearers. We should talk about it. After working your way to the end of this book, you will feel a greater confidence that you can talk about it. So only one question remains: Will you talk about truth?
Publisher : Ave Maria Press (March 6, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1594719616
ISBN-13 : 978-1594719615
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.9 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches