{"product_id":"the-way-of-heaven-and-earth-from-eitheror-to-the-catholic-bothand-9781685781064","title":"The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either\/Or to the Catholic Both\/And","description":"A crisis of polarization more and more threatens the future of civilization. Whether it's philosophy, theology, politics, or culture, we find ourselves falling into stark either\/or dilemmas: Religion or science? Conservative or liberal? Faith or works? We can't help but choose one idea at the expense of the other, falling into zero-sum games, mutual extremes, and the endless division of human life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Heaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Becklo offers a way of interpreting this crisis: Christ and \"the Catholic both\/and.\" Framing our greatest dilemmas as \"heaven-earth dilemmas\"--choices between God or man, God's place or man's place, the spiritual or the physical, or the spirit or the flesh--Becklo shows that our greatest hope for overcoming our divisions is in Christ, who is \"the Way of heaven and earth,\" and the Catholic Church, which is the fullness of the Way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the help of Scripture, Catholic teaching, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and various philosophers, theologians, and artists, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Heaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e finds new hope in this forgotten Way, which calls us into the paradoxes of the human journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Becklo is a husband and father, writer and editor, and the Publishing Director for Bishop Robert Barron's Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His writing is featured at Word on Fire, Aleteia, and Catholic World Report, and has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eInside the Vatican\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and the \u003ci\u003eEvangelization \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e journal, and online at First Things, RealClear Religion, the Catholic Thing, and the Catholic Herald. He has also contributed essays for \u003ci\u003eWisdom and Wonder: How Peter Kreeft Shaped the Next Generation of Catholics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited multiple books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Hour: Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor Collection\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York with his wife, Elizabeth, and their four children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Word on Fire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183697789202,"sku":"9781685781064","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28aa39eb-7789-4c14-9fde-a3ac69edce05.jpg?v=1744478115","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-way-of-heaven-and-earth-from-eitheror-to-the-catholic-bothand-9781685781064","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}