(3) The Pillars of Unbelief - Karl Marx
Among the many opponents of the Christian faith, Marxism is certainly not the most important, imposing or impressive philosophy in history.
Among the many opponents of the Christian faith, Marxism is certainly not the most important, imposing or impressive philosophy in history.
Father de Torre explains how it is the Judeo-Christian tradition with its distinctive philosophy which has given the edge to the Western world in science and technology, economics, political institutions, and the creative arts.
"A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue" by Wendy Shalit, is a bombshell.
There is a vast body of commentary on the modern spiritual plight, all of which assumes that the experience of doubt, moral relativism, and despair is distinctively modern and, in some sense, the product of mankind's "maturity."
I'm going to talk about contemporary psychology. Frankly, psychology has not been a very reliable friend of the faith.
Thomas Cahill outlines ten of the more profound contributions Judaism has given humanity.
Father de Torre shows how democracy, in its fully developed modern sense, is a result of the final political flowering of Gospel values.
We need to talk about "enemies" of the faith because the life of faith is a real war. So say all the prophets, Apostles, martyrs and our Lord Himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche called himself "the Anti-Christ," and wrote a book by that title.
Paul Vitz, in this concluding chapter, outlines both a political and a religious response to the crisis of the family. Vitz begins by reviewing evidence from the social sciences of the tragic social and economic costs which large numbers of single-parent and divorced families have wrought, concluding that the state's self-interest should push it to support strong traditional families.