Love Unveiled

Love Unveiled: The Catholic Faith Explained by Edward Sri, 278 pages

Oftentimes in modern society, religion is viewed primarily in terms of limits - "thou-shalt-nots" - and perhaps no religion is more identified in the popular imagination with arbitrary rules than Catholicism.  In Love Unveiled, Edward Sri, host of the multimedia Symbolon series, attempts to demonstrate that what the Church proclaims is really a set of positive propositions and the conclusions that follow naturally from them, the logic of the revelation of the love of God for man and man's response.

The obvious comparison for an affirmative presentation of the Catholic faith tied to a multimedia series is Bishop Robert Barron's excellent Catholicism, but where that book resembled a set of university lectures, Sri's work has a more personal style.  Even when addressing the most controversial topics, Sri never loses his gentle tone.  Even when dealing with fairly straightforward apologetics, he never lapses into didacticism, but treats his subjects as the unfolding of greater truths.  Most compellingly, the whole work forms a unity in which each section seems to follow naturally from the last, as conclusion follows premise.