A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion
by Peter Kreeft
Is abortion a woman's right?
When does human life begin?
Should we legislate morality?
What would happen if the Socrates of old suddenly appeared in modern Athens? Peter Kreeft imagines the dialog that might ensue with three worthy opponents--a doctor, a philosopher and a psychologist--about the arguments surrounding abortion. Kreeft uses Socratic technique to strip away the ...
A Conversation About Truth, Morality, Culture a Few Other Things That Matter
by Paul Chamberlain
Physician-assisted suicide. Racism. Genetic engineering. Abortion. Poverty. Capital punishment.
Our culture is beset by a host of vexing ethical questions. Are there any foundational moral principles to guide us? If so, where do they come from?
Christians say that we can--and should--be guided by principles derived from a right understanding of God. But skeptics and those with differing religious ...
What is the nature of addiction? Neither of the two dominant models (disease or choice) adequately accounts for the experience of those who are addicted or of those who are seeking to help them.
In this interdisciplinary work, Kent Dunnington brings the neglected resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem of addiction. Drawing on the insights of Aristotle and Thomas ...
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength." This, Jesus tells us, is the greatest commandment. Implicit in it is the message that propels us out to the ends of the earth, news as simple as it is good: God so loves the world that he gave his only Son as a sacrifice for our sins, and he invites us into a saving relationship with ...
Edited by David J. Atkinson, David F. Field, Arthur F. Holmes, and Oliver O'Donovan
Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year
Especially in today's complicated world, moral practice and decision-making raise many hard questions. Dealing with those questions often requires wide-ranging understanding--in areas such as systematic and practical theology, psychology, economics, sociology and philosophy. For the first time, ...
What should we do or not do? What attitudes, behavior and qualities are good? Can we be good without God? What is the highest good, the purpose of human existence? These are the questions the study of ethics seeks to answer.
Unlike many approaches to ethics, this book foundationally turns to Scripture, going only as far as Scripture itself goes. The result is an overview of biblical ethics that ...
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