You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
None
None
None
None
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. What is wrong with America? It has often called itself a Christian nation, yet its social and moral problems are legion. The increasing rates of crime, juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancy, sexual promiscuity, and divorce are frequently linked to the declining importance of religious belief. But is there more than a presumed link between the strength of personal religiousness and moral behavior? Yes, says Guenter Lewy, and the large quantity of empirical data in existence which establishes that link ought to move people -- Christians and non-Christians alike -- to sit up and take note. In this trenchant analysis of the moral...
Matters of Faith and Morals brings together a number of original essays on ethics and on relationships between ethics and other disciplines pertaining to religion and social sceicnes. They are not expositions of recognized positions within established schools of thought, but exploratory and controversial. They are intended not to transmit a traditional body of doctrine, but to foster discussion and encourage argument in the interest of intellectual progress.
(Peeters 1992)
None