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The Counsel of Trent

#743 - The False Christ of Fr. Richard Rohr

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent examines the book The Universal Christ by Fr. Richard Rohr and how he distorts the true identity of Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:06.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic Answers

0:10.6

Apologist Trent Horn. And today we're talking about Father Richard Roar, a frustrating

0:15.7

Franciscan friar, a literation's always nice, whose book The Universal Christ can be found

0:21.6

at retreat centers all over the country, even though the Jesus you find in it is a counterfeit

0:28.0

Christ. Before I get into that though, please like this video, subscribe to our channel,

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0:39.8

You get access to my confirmation in New Testament study series, fancy mugs, great stuff, check

0:45.2

it out at trendhornpodcast.com. All right, so Father Roar wrote the book The Universal

0:50.4

Christ a few years ago. That's what I'm going to focus on in today's episode. Even though

0:55.3

I know he has all their kinds of wacky stuff out there, I will save that probably for

1:00.2

a future episode. And yeah, I'm frustrated that the bishops have not been more forthright

1:05.4

with Father Roar. Thankfully though, at least what I saw in my kindle copy of the book,

1:10.9

Universal Christ does not have an impromotor or official approval from any bishop. And

1:16.2

that's good because in the Universal Christ there are some theological doosies, we can

1:21.8

call them, but let's get started. One of the central themes of Father Roar's book is

1:26.8

that people have lost sight of Christ and they have to distinguish Christ from Jesus in

1:32.8

order to fully connect with a personal and transcendent God. Father Roar puts it this way.

1:39.4

A merely personal God becomes tribal and sentimental. And a merely Universal God never leaves the

1:45.2

realm of abstract theory and philosophical principles. But when we learn to put them

1:50.1

together, Jesus and Christ give us a God who is both personal and universal. Now, if

1:58.2

you know basic theology, this should sound strange to you because Jesus is the name

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