Addenda
A monthly e-mail newsletter from MARS HILL AUDIO
May 15, 2005 v Number 15
"The Church exists to be the light of the world, and if it fulfils its function, the world istransformed in spite of all the obstacles that human powers place in the way. A secularist
culture can only exist, so to speak, in the dark. It is a prison in which the human spirit
confines itself when it is shut out of the wider world of reality."
Christopher Dawson, "Religion and the Totalitarian State The Criterion, October 1934
New on our desks
"A Faithful Journey through the Bible and Homosexuality?"
On Volume 68 of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, professor Robert Gagnon discussed the biblical texts concerning homosexual relations and various arguments that obscure the meaning of those texts. In a recent article "A Faithful Journey through the Bible and Homosexuality?" he again deconstructs poorly reasoned arguments that subvert the meaning of the biblical text regarding sexual behavior, this time focusing on two books commissioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [Read more]
"The Caregiving Society"
The Spring 2005 issue of The New Atlantis includes an article by Peter Augustine Lawler, a guest on volumes 56 and 71 of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal. In "The Caregiving Society," Lawler takes the possibility of Social Security reform as an occasion to explore society's attitudes towards aging, the young and old, freedom, independence, care-giving and care-receiving, and families and individuals. [Read more]
Resource update: George Bernarnos
Subscribers who enjoyed the Volume 55 interview with J. C. Whitehouse on Georges Bernanos can now learn more about the French Catholic writer by visiting the MARS HILL AUDIO Georges Bernanos web page.
Children's Literature and Newbery Medal Winners
One of Ken Myers' guests on Volume 73 is Patricia
Owen, who discusses children's literature in general, and more
specifically, how winners of the prestigious Newbery Medal have changed over
the years. For your interest and review we have posted online a list of
Patricia Owens' favorite Newbery Medal
winners. Also available online is a list of books on topics such as reading
aloud to children and how to choose good children's books. This list
was compiled by Scott Bucko of the
Updated Audio Resources on Bioethics
Over the years, in addition to interviews on the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, we have produced additional resources intended to help you understand and respond to the bioethical dilemmas we face. Among these are Bioethics: A Primer for Christians by Gilbert Meilaender, and MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations featuring Leon Kass, Richard John Neuhaus, Russell Hittinger, and others.
If you have not yet listened to any of these programs, we encourage you to do so. And to help you out, we have arranged all of these items on one convenient webpage, on which you may read descriptions of each item and place an order.
We have also made some of our older cassette-only selections available in updated formats. The following are now available on CD:
* Edge of Life, Edge of Death, a Conversation with Richard Doerflinger and Richard John Neuhaus
* The Supreme Court and Abortion, a Conversation with Russell Hittinger
And these are now available on MP3-CD (though not on standard audio CD):
* Bioethics: A Primer for Christians by Gilbert Meilaender
* The Ethics of Human Cloning, an Anthology featuring essays by Leon Kass, Gilbert Meilaender, and Abigail Rian Evans
To purchase any of these items, use our secure online ordering page, call us at 1.800.331.6407, download a printable (PDF) order form, or use the brochure included with Volume 73 of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal.
MARS HILL AUDIO Monograph now online: "The Politics of the Kingdom"
In this biblical-theological
essay, Dr. Edmund Clowney
discusses how the Church must resist the temptation to become subservient to
earthly political powers and programs. This essay was originally published in
the late 1980s as a rebuke to liberation theology and to certain less coherent
but no less enthusiastic Christian political movements on the right. Dr. Clowney was for many years the president of Westminster
Theological Seminary in
Other available MARS HILL AUDIO Monographs available in print include "Is There a Natural Law?" by Francis Turretin and "Signs of the Times: The Table Talk Columns of Ken Myers." "Christianity & Culture" by J. Gresham Machen is available for free online.
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