A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue-book review
"A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue" by Wendy Shalit, is a bombshell.
"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.
The dazzling accomplishments of Western science and modern capitalism have made us vastly richer with an unparalleled degree of personal and political liberty, yet the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization — the very achievements that underwrite our prosperity and give meaning and purpose to our liberty — are everywhere under attack.
The crucial issue and the book's great gift is Defoe's account of how a civilization is born. What transforms chaos into cosmos, survivalism into society, is obedience to God.