Description
“This book is an initial attempt to arrive inductively at the truths embedded in the moral teaching of the Church through the lived experience of faithful men and women, rendered intelligible in conceptual terms. While attending to one’s own experience is certainly one step in coming to understand oneself, it provides but a glimpse – a partial clue – into the mystery of who one is and is meant to be. Indeed, experience is not alienated from human cognition but integral to it. Wisdom is the fruit of both experience and reason. But, contrary to claims of those who would give primacy to subjective personal experience over and against the conclusions of right reason, it is only possible to arrive at the full truth about oneself if the intellect is allowed to pursue its proper end, not mere knowledge but understanding. We hope to persuade the reader that a proper grasp of the place of lived experience in the search for truth reveals that the Catholic understanding of the human person and human sexuality provide the only sure route to human happiness.”
Part One: Philosophical and Theological Foundations
Ch 1: “When the Starting Place is Lived Experience: The Pastoral and Therapeutic Implications of Pope St. John Paul II’s Account of the Person” by Deborah Savage
Ch 2: “Why Subjectivity Reveals Man as Person” by John Crosby
Ch 3: “The Universality of Natural Law and the Irreducibility of Personalism” by Janet E. Smith
Ch 4: “Ethics in Search of Its Experiential Point of Departure: The Philosophical Ethics and Moral Theology of Margaret A. Farley and Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II” by Eduardo Echeverria
Ch 5: “Meaning and the Theology of Body” by Michele M. Schumacher
Part Two: Reflections on the Revolution
Ch 6: “The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims: The Church was Right All Along” by Jennifer Roback Morse
Ch 7: “The Sexual Revolution: Four Facts We Can’t Pretend Not to Know” by Mary Eberstadt
Ch 8: “The Existential Contradictions of the Sexual Revolution” by Carl R.. Trueman
Ch 9: “Transsexualism as Transhumanism” by J. Budziszewski
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Ch 10: “Rethinking Humanae Vitae: Living Through the Sexual Revolution” by Deborah Savage
Ch 11: “Married Experience and the Gospel of Life” by Richard Doerflinger
Ch 12: “Male Chastity according to Pope St John Paul II” by Adrian Reimers
Ch 13: “The Design of God’s Love: The Gift of Children Through Adoption” by Elizabeth Kirk
Ch 14: “Motherhood and the Power of Vulnerability” by Carrie Gress
Ch 15: “Fathers in the Image of God the Father” by David Deavel
Ch 16: “Reverent Curiosity: Why the Church Needs to Listen to Gender Dysphoria” by Jason Evert
Ch 17: “Integrating the Experience of Homosexuality into the Quest for Wholeness” by Marco Casanova
Ch 18: “My Father Gives Me Bread: Same-Sex Attraction and My Journey toward Wholeness” by Amy E. Hamilton
Ch 19: “Dispatches from the Front Lines: Teaching the Victims of the Sexual Revolution” by Anne E. Maloney
Part Four: The Science of Love
Ch 20: “The Relationship between Theology and the Social Sciences” by Fr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz
Ch 21: “Hormonal Contraception and the Physiology of Human Sexuality” by Angela Lanfranchi, MD FACS
Ch 22: “Catholic Wisdom on the Origin of Human Life and its Link to Human Relationships” by Peter J. Colosi
Part Five: Global Challenges and Policy Considerations
Ch 23: “The Globalist Challenge to Authentic Human Love” by Stefano Gennarini
Ch 24: “A Catholic Response to DEI Policies: Formation in True Love Through ‘Imago DEI’ Programs” by Jane F. Adolphe
Ch 25: “The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement?” by Jennifer Bilek
