Additional information
| Imprint | |
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| Publisher | |
| Language | English |
| Book Dimensions | 153 × 229 mm |
| Format Detail | Paperback |
| Publication Date | 20201001 |
| Editor | Alexander F. C. Webster, Alfred K. Siewers, David C. Ford |
| Pages | 207 |
| Format | BC |
Description
Western societies today are coming unmoored in the face of an
earth-shaking ethical and cultural paradigm shift. At its core is the question
of what it means to be human and how we are meant to live. The old answers are
no longer accepted; a dizzying array of options are offered in their stead.
Underpinning this smorgasbord of lifestyles is a thicket of unquestioned
assumptions, such as the separation of gender from biological sex, which not so
long ago would have been universally rejected as radical
notions.
In the spring of 2019,
a group of Orthodox Christian scholars drawn from a wide variety of academic
disciplines met together to offer responses to the moral crisis our generation
faces, elaborating upon its various forms and facilitating a fuller
understanding of some of its theological and philosophical foundations. In doing
so they offer support to all those who question the claims that are so
forcefully insisted upon today – a clarity that will aid them in standing up and
resisting trends that have already shown to be the cause of great suffering and
unhappiness.
Among the contributors
to this volume are NY Times bestselling author Rod Dreher, Frederica
Matthewes-Green, Dr David Bradshaw, Fr Chad Hatfield, and Fr Peter Heers.
Collectively, these scholars remind us that it is only through our participation
in the life of Christ, God who became man, that we can find the healing of our
humanity through the restoration in us of His image, in which we were formed at
the beginning of time.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Part One – Diagnoses: Chastity, Purity,
Integrity
The Beauty of
Chastity, Prof.
David Bradshaw
The Splendor of
Purity, Frederica
Mathewes-Green
The Gnosticism of
Modernity and the Quest for Radical Autonomy, Prof. Bruce Seraphim
Foltz
Gnosis,
Techne, Hedone (Erudition, Technology, Pleasure): Contemporary Secular
Anthropological Assumptions, Dr. Gaelan Gilbert
Orthodox Christian
Bioethics vs. Secular Bioethics: A Conceptual Geography, Prof. Mark Cherry
Hierarchy, Inequality,
and the Mystery of Male and Female, Prof. Mary Ford
The Mystery of Male and
Female, Masculine and Feminine: Whys, Wherefores, and
Warnings, Prof.
Edith M. Humphrey
Part Two – Remedies: Moral, Pastoral, and
Social
Acquiring an Orthodox
Ethos, Archpriest
Peter Heers
ICXC
NIKA: The Liberty of Theosis, Prof. Alfred Kentigern
Siewers
Twenty-Six Foundations
for Centering the Lives of our Youth in Purity, Chastity, and Integrity, Prof.
David C. Ford
Restoring Young Men to
Manhood, Fr.
Johannes Jacobse
The Eucharist as
Antidote to Secularism: Insights from a Twentieth-Century American Orthodox
Perspective, Archpriest Chad Hatfield
“Radechesis”: A Return
to Radical Catechesis, Archpriest John Parker
“The Benedict Option”
and Orthodox Anthropology: A Summary, Rod Dreher
“Benedict,”
“Constantine,” and “Prophecy”—Three Options in the Coming
Storm, Archpriest
Alexander Webster
