- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company (April 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0824519515
- ISBN-13: 978-0824519513
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #549,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Trained as a physicist and a Roman Catholic priest, Albacete has written a fine book of short reflections on religion, its place in our world, its at-times troubled relationship to its own truth claims, the meaning of suffering, and the experience of pluralism and liberalism. Albacete cites the thought of John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger, to be sure, but he also engages with Germaine Greer, Federico Garc¡a Lorca, and Paul Ricoeur. Albacete's profound sense of the religious leads him not to dogma but to a series of sensitively framed, sincere questions that should catch the attention and empathy of many readers. Highly recommended for most collections.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Monsignor Albacete was a consultant to a PBS program on John Paul II and, after presenting it to TV critics at the Pasadena Ritz Carlton, was asked so many questions about faith that he felt as if he were God's spokesperson at the hotel. Hence the title of the ingratiating little book in which he puts his answers together formally. The roots of faith grow out of the human longing for infinity, for transcendence, he says, and are watered by wonder in the face of creation and acceptance, rather than rejection, of reality. Reason is the instrument for understanding the great mystery at the heart of creation, and this is the same reason science employs to discover the material workings of creation. From an absorbing discussion of reason, Albacete proceeds to suffering; sex, money, and politics; and religion. Each discussion is conducted in little chapters that agreeably break up into digestible portions what amounts to a thorough general--that is, not just Christian--theory of faith in God. Ray Olson
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Incredible,
This review is from: God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity A Priest Physicist Talks About Science, Sex, Politics, and Religion (Hardcover)
As a physics student, a catholic, and an inquiring human I highly recommend this book!! Albacete is witty, honest, and extremely insightful. He hides behind nothing. He makes it clear why we need religion just as much now as we ever did. You should be able to finihs the book in a few days too!
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If God went to cocktail parties...,
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This review is from: God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity A Priest Physicist Talks About Science, Sex, Politics, and Religion (Hardcover)
While advising on a film about John Paul II, the eccentrically brilliant Monsignor Albacete stayed at the Ritz in Hollywood and was accosted by all kinds of people who asked, on location and at poolside and everywhere else, incisive questions about God, religion, evil, hope, and other matters that really matter. This little book joins their questions and his responses in a winsome apologetic that might be categorized as pre-evangelization. However categorized, it is thinking of a high order set forth with literary grace and humor, and all in the service of understanding the irrepressible human aspiration toward the infinite. This is a First THings review.
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About the essence of life itself, its meaning, God's plan,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity A Priest Physicist Talks About Science, Sex, Politics, and Religion (Hardcover)
God At The Ritz: Attraction To Infinity is the candid discourse by Lorenzo Albacete (a Catholic priest and physicist with a degree in Space Science and Applied Physics), about the essence of life itself, its meaning, God's plan, and a great deal more. From surveying the balance between science and faith; to addressing the eternal questioning of why such suffering and horror exist in God's world; to the "big three" contemporary issues of sex, money, and politics; God At The Ritz is a refreshing, insightful, articulate, "reader friendly", and highly recommended attempt to make sense of the great mysteries of life, and to acknowledge that there are some concepts that can only be understood by God himself.
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