Let's Talk about Truth: A Guide for Preachers, Teachers, and Other Catholic Leaders in a World of Doubt and Discord

by Ann M. Garrido

Publisher:

Ave Maria Press

, 2020

Overview

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 is
• informs our opinions and assists us with making judgments
• shapes the way we communicate with each other
• enables 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.

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Key Features

• provides a five-point assessment tool for preachers
• Offers practical homiletic tools that are readily applicable to teaching and other forms of Church leadership.
• Includes a summary of key insights, a list of practical takeaways, and probing questions for self-reflection or group dialogue

Contents

• Truth as a Way of Seeing the World
• Truth as a Way of Forming Good udgments
• Truth as a Way of Communicating with Others
• Truth as a Way of Being in Relationship
• Truth, Next Steps

Endorsements

Ann Garrido, a remarkably entrepreneurial theologian, writes of truth as seeing the world, forming good judgments, communicating with others, and being in relationship. In four concise chapters, she shows us what each looks like in the particularities of preaching, teaching, and other types of Church leadership. Garrido dares to look truth in the face, and to preach about it!

Rev. Gregory Heille, O.P., Professor of Preaching and Evangelization, Director, Doctor of Ministry in Preaching, Aquinas Institute of Theology

Ann Garrido has done it again: taken an old topic that might seem abstract or well-worn and injected it with new life. Garrido takes the reader on an adventure which shows us that ‘truth’ contains some exciting inner dynamics for the preacher and hearer to explore together. In our post-truth milieu, this is a timely, needed, and fresh approach to a mainstay of Christian faith.

Rev.Michael Connors, C.S.C., Director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics, University of Notre Dame

An essential read for any minister who is trying to reclaim truth as a fundamental human and explicitly Christian value. Garrido challenges preachers, teachers, and other Christian leaders to see the world as it is, seek a sound basis for judgments, speak honestly, and be faithful in relationships.

Sr. Theresa Rickard, O.P., President of RENEW International

Product Details

• Title: Let’s Talk about Truth: A Guide for Preachers, Teachers, and Other Catholic Leaders in a World of Doubt and Discord
• Author: Ann M. Garrido
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 179
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Catholic Church › Doctrines--Study and teaching; Truth › Religious aspects--Christianity--Study and teaching
• ISBNs: 9781594719622, 1594719624
• Resource ID: LLS:LTSTLKTDBTDSCRD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-05T22:39:02Z