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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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