Fr. NEIL O'DONOGHUE

Good Book, terrible reading

Revisado: 12-02-23

First of all, the book itself is quite good. Cessation has written a book on sacramental theology to counterbalance some literature in the field published over the last half century. He tends to over-rely on Trent and St. Thomas and could do with better engagement of the field of liturgical theology and modern theologians (even those he disagrees with).
However the narration is terrible. Theology is a science, this science has a specialist vocabulary and uses a lot of Latin terms. Both technical terms and Latin are mangled. There is hardly a sentence in the work that does not have a mispronounced word. He even manages to mispronounce common Catholic words such as "Diocese" or "Avila." Someone who understands theology should narrate. This narration almost useless (I did listen to it all, but I had to buy the print book to understand what the narrator was saying). This leads to a personal bugbear of mine. Theology should be treated seriously. Customers would not stand for a baseball book being mangled so badly and if a was a medical textbook was read so badly, it would put lives at risk! But because we are dealing with theology, we just ignore the problem. If Audible was serious about quality control, they would re-record this title using the services of a narrator that can pronounce the specialist vocabulary that the book uses.

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