Edward Sri, founder of a fellowship for Catholic university students and professor of theology at the Augustine Institute, has written Into His Likeness (Ignatius Press, 160pp, £13). It is a frank, personal and challenging short book, inviting readers to “Be transformed as a disciple of Christ” (his subtitle).
Addressing all those people who fulfil their Sunday obligation as a matter of course but do not realise this is the least they are called by Christ to do, Sri emphasises that “Being a Catholic is not a stagnant reality.” We are not born to be “a normal Christian”. Rather, we are called personally and just as dramatically as St Matthew in the Gospel, as imagined by Caravaggio in his famously haunting depiction.
