Inseparable: Five Perspectives on Sex, Life, and Love in Defense of Humanae Vitae - Softcover

Joseph C Atkinson; Allan Carlson PhD; Paul Gondreau; Mark S Latkovic; Shaun And Jessica McAfee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 168357091X ISBN 13: 9781683570912

Publisher: Catholic Answers Press, 2018

Synopsis

As the Church and the world remember this milestone anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Catholic Answers Press has published an important new multi-contributor exposition of that prophetic encyclical - Inseparable: Five Perspectives on Sex, Life, and Love in Defense of Humanae Vitae. Given the richness of Catholic teaching on the transmission of human life and the different ways due to their temperaments, habits of mind, and life circumstances that people respond to it, we asked our contributors to reflect on and defend that teaching from five perspectives: each of them compelling, all of them together forming a mosaic of truth. Biblical foundations of conjugal love, Nature Law, Personalism and the language of the body, Historical lessons from contraceptive culture, and a couple's witness of lived experience Contributors include some of the most knowledgeable and incisive writers on these subjects today: Joseph Atkinson- associate professor of Sacred Scripture, John Paul II Institute, Washington, D.C.: Paul Gondreau- professor of theology, Providence College: Mark Latkovic- professor of moral and systematic theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary: Allan Carlson-distinguished visiting professor of history and politics, Hillsdale College, author, Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control: and Shaun and Jessica McAfee- founder of Epic Pew and author of Reform Yourself! Together they contributed to Surprised by Life. All share a joyful conviction in the truth of Humanae Vitae and a desire to promote and defend it. His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke contributes the foreword.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Phelan is vice president of family initiatives for the St. John Paul II Foundation in Houston, where he oversees the foundation s Together in Holiness conference and education efforts. After earning his M.A. in Philosophy at Franciscan University, he served as director of communications for Human Life International for nine years. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Katy, Texas with their three children. Todd Aglialoro is the director of publishing for Catholic Answers. He holds a Master's degree from the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family. He and his wife have seven children and reside in the San Diego area.

Review:

I highly recommend this work. It s terrific! Inseparable provides a compelling argument for the genius of Bl. Paul VI s landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae, as timely today as when originally published. The biblical, philosophical, historical, personalist, and real-life perspectives offered in these essays form a solid defense of the Church s prophetic wisdom, bearing witness to the liberating truth of Humanae Vitae. --The Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley Archbishop of Oklahoma City

...Not just a magnificent tribute to the soon to be Pope St. Paul VI, but it is most readable and accessible to anyone who seeks to know and understand the Truth. This ought to be mandatory reading in every seminary, rectory, chancery, and most especially, every family home. Catholic Answers has provided a real gift to our culture, so much in need of the Light of Truth who is Christ Jesus. --The Most Reverend David Kagan Bishop of Bismarck

This collection of reflections from leaders in Sacred Scripture, sociology, philosophy, and history, as well as the compelling testimony of a young couple, is a welcome revisitation..of the truth of Humanae Vitae. This volume reminds us again that the truth sets us free, free really to love. --Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted Bishop of Phoenix

About this edition

• Publisher: Catholic Answers Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 168357091X
• ISBN 13: 9781683570912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201
• Editor: Todd Aglialoro, Stephen Phelan