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Thinking Things Through : Essays on Philosophy and Christian Faith.
Andrew Murray is a Marist Father and Senior Lecturer in Phi- losophy at Catholic Institute of Sydney. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University of America. His interests are in the history of philosophy, political philosophy, rhetoric and knowledge. Between 1996 and 2001 he wrote a c...
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Hindmarsh :
ATF Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; ETHICS AND SPIRITUALITY; What Constitutes a Happy Life?; What is Moral Reasoning?; Excellence Rather Than Prohibition; Ethics in Journalism; Pro-life Means Pro Life; Euthanasia: A Question?; Protecting Choice: Against the Legalisation of Euthanasia; A Spirituality for Ageing; Ethics and Heroin Addiction; A Consistent Ethic of Life; Can Virtue be Taught?; For Parents of Homosexual Children; Blessed are the Gentle; Understanding our own Behaviour; LITURGY AND SACRAMENTS; Christmas and Meaning; A Feast for Strangers; A Time for Reconciliation.
- Christmas: Essentials and Non-EssentialsWho Needs More Than a Stable?; Speaking at a Funeral; What Can we Make of Lent?; How Shall we Pray?; On enjoying a pilgrimage; Why did Jesus come into the world?; Thoughts on the Baptism of Jesus; A Lenten Reminder of Limitation; FAITH AND THE GOSPEL; Fides et Ratio: An Encouragement to Scholarship; Is God Good?; At the Heart of Being Christian; Sin, Reconciliation and New Life; Marist Project Continues Mary's Work; Church Unity: An Imperative for Today; Whatever Happened to Hell?; A Significant Step Towards Unity; Do we Know What the Church Teaches?
- Abandonment to the Will of GodLiving in a Diminishing Church; Symbols, Rituals and Roles in Church Life; Symbols, Rituals and Roles in the Eucharist; Fundamentalism in the Catholic Church; What Jesus Would Have us Do; Why Do we Thank God?; A Church Seeking Purification; Glad to be a Marist; Why Bother About Salvation?; How Shall we Show them Salvation?; The Question of Salvation Remains; And So, Into the New Millennium; A Short Response to Bishop Spong; Why Catholic Teaching Must Change; At the Heart of the Christian Life; An Opportunity for Faith; Questions Requiring Religious Answers.
- Marriage for the KingdomPHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION; The Banality of Evil; Literacy in Higher Education; Dealing with Absence; Ways in which Words Fail; The Romantic Belief in Progress; From Progress to Disillusionment; The Doom and Gloom of Science; What Kind of Argument?; Stages in Argumentation; Rules of Argument; Becoming all Things; These Can Be Shared Without Being Lost; Where Do Words Come From?; What is it to Be?; Embracing Postmodernism; Can we Trust Reason and Argument?; Is Pleasure Something Wholly Bad?; Opinions One Cannot Have; Spare a Little Sympathy for Pilate.
- This Strange Thing, 'Intelligence'What is Philosophy About?; Problems with the Pursuit of Evil; Truth Seeking and Truth Telling; MEANING AND LIFE; Learning to Die; Understanding why Things Happen; Thoughts on Marriage and Anniversaries; A Little Understanding will Help; Ought one to Get Married?; Making Time to Enjoy the Jubilee; Let's not Forget our Stories; Letter to a Friend in America; Making Time for Conversation; Wise Men Talking About Big Questions; Life is Generally Hard; It is our Stories that Hold us Together; Compassion Can be our Strength; The Importance of Luck.