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December 1999

 

 

 

Recovering Nature : Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny.
Edited by Ralph McInerny & al..
Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame, 1999.

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Against the Idols of the Age.
By David Stove.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Pub., 1999.

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Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics.
By Christopher Norris .
London: Routledge, 1999.

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  • clarifies the debates about quantum physics
  • shows that quantum-based anti-realism is self-refuting
  • argues for a realist interpretation maintaining the  scientific principles of causal reasoning and inference to the best explanation

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Cosmology: The Science of the Universe.
By Edward R. Harrison.
2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1999.

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The Reasonableness of Christianity.
By John Locke.
Edited with an intr. by J. C. Higgins-Biddle.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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  • The text of this famous Christian classic is accompanied by abundant information

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True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment .
By J. Budziszewski.
Transaction, 1992.
(paperback: Dec. 1999)

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  • analysis and refutation of relativism disguised as tolerance
  • shows that tolerance requires moral absolutes and that real neutrality is logically impossible
  • deals much with virtue theory

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November 1999

 

 

 

On Illustrious Men.
By St. Jerome.
Trans. & ed. by Thomas P. Halton.
Washington D. C.: Catholic U. of America, 1999.

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  • A indispensable text for patrology, as important as Eusebius 'Ecclesiastical History
  • with extensive footnotes, biographical data, etc.

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Natural Law and Practical Reason : A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy.
By Martin Rhonheimer.
Tr. by  Gerald Malsbary.
New York: Fordham University, 1999.

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The Pilgrim's Guide; C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness.
Edited by David Mills.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation.
By Kenneth L. Gentry.
Amer. pub, 1999.

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  • argues that the book was written before 70 AD
  • preterist

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The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology : Theology Without Weapons.
By Gary J. Dorrien.
John Knox, 1999

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Intelligent Design.
By William A. Dembski.
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 1999.

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  • a collection of essays on the most interesting recent development in the natural sciences
  • also deals with natural theology

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Earth Report 2000 : Revisiting the True State of the Planet .
Edited by Ronald Bailey
McGraw-Hill, 1999.

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  • an up-to-date book by a panel of researcher, exposing the truth hidden or distorted by the flood of environmentalist & New Age propaganda

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October 1999

 

 

 

Christendom Awake : On Re-Energizing the Church in Culture.
By Aidan Nichols.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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  • written for Catholics, this book covers many areas that may be relevant for all Christians (liturgy, theology, philosophy, aesthetics, family, economics, politics...)
  • use many rare and foreign words, not an easy read, but truly for the Christian intellectuals

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A Refutation of Moral Relativism : Interviews With an Absolutist .
By Peter Kreeft.
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

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Faith of the Fatherless : The Psychology of Atheism.
By Paul C. Vitz.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

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  • psychological explanation of atheism as the Defective Father Hypothesis
  • pschological analyses the different kinds of atheism, which are exemplified by the life of the major atheist thinkers; also some studies of theist thinkers

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Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity : A History of New Testament Times .
By Paul Barnett.
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 1999.

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  • places these events in their context
  • interacts with liberal scholarship and shows that Jesus' resurrection in the flesh 

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Is the Bible True? How Modern Debates and Discoveries Affirm the Essence of the Scriptures.
By Jeffery L. Sheler.
San Francisco: Harper, 1999.

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The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
By Josh McDowell.
 Nashville: Nelson, 1999.

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Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism : A Primer for  Suspicious Protestants.
By Daniel H. Williams.
Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1999.

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Timeline Charts of the Western Church.
By .Susan L. Peterson
Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1999.

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Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture--And Destruction of Planet Earth.
By Grace Halsell.
Crossroads, 1999.

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  • "Halsell exposes Falwell's Christian tours as having only one purpose: to raise money for Falwell and Israel, under the guise of preparing the pilgrims for the approaching Armageddon"
  • "explores the danger of a new religious doctrine sweeping America. Adherents to this doctrine are said to constitute the fastest growing movement in Christianity today. Its leaders proclaim that God wants--even demands--that Planet Earth be destroyed in our generation."

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Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.
By Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky.
Stylus, 1999.

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Engaging the Closed Minded : Presenting Your Faith to the Confirmed Unbeliever.
By Dan Story.
 Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999.

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The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man.
By J. Budziszewski.
Dallas: TX: Spence, 1999.

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  • analyzing the effects of original sin, shows how the corruption of conscience (through the illusion of moral neutrality vs good /evil) leads to nihilism
  • exposes the pitfalls of secular political views (communitarianism, liberalism and conservatism)
  • sees hope in Christianity and in stirring up people's suppressed memory of natural law

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From Irenaeus to Grotius : A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625.
Ed. by Oliver O'Donovan & Joan L. O'Donovan
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1999.

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Shows About Nothing : Nihilism in Popular Culture from the Exorcist to Seinfeld.
By Thomas S. Hibbs.
Dallas: TX: Spence, 1999.

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  • analysis of Holliwood's philosophy, exposing its nihilist attacks on traditional, Republican values
  • many movies analyzed
  • follows the trajectory of evil in American film and television, linking it to the spread of nihilism

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The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
By Thomas Sowell.
New York: Free PRess, 1999.

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  • shows the bankrupcy of leftist concepts of justice (affirmative action, "redistribution", "social" justice)

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Beyond Gay.
By David Morrison.
Our Sunday Visitor, 1999.

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The End of Privacy.
By Charles J. Sykes.
St Martins, 1999.

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  • a cultural analysis of the loss of privacy (secrecy about personal data)

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September 1999

 

 

 

Philosophy After Objectivity : Making Sense in Perspective.
By Paul K. Moser .
Oxford, 1999.

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  • shows that postmodern philosophy is not objective

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The Rationality of Theism.
By Godehard Bruntrup & Ronald K. Tacelli.
Kluwer, 1999.

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C.S. Lewis' Miracles.
By Terry L. Miethe.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.

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Theos, Anthropos, Christos : A Compendium of Modern Philosophical Theology.
Edited by Roy Abraham Varghese.
New York: Lang, 1999.

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The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Doctrine of the Trinity.
Edited by Stephen T. Davis; Daniel Kendall, & Gerald O' Collins.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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How Now Shall We Live?.
By Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey.
Tyndale, 1999.

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Finite and Infinite Goods: a Framework for Ethics.
By Robert M. Adams.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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  • a theistically-based framework

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Ambrose : Church and Society in the Late Roman World.
By John Moorhead.
London: Longman, 1999.

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The Politics of Myth : A Study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell.
By Robert S. Ellwood.

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Invitation to the Apocrypha .
By Daniel J. Harrington .
Grtand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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  • The new authority on the subject, superseding Bruce Metzger's works (from the 50's)

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Many Religions, One Covenant : Israel, the Church, and the World.
By Cardinal Ratzinger & Scott Hahn..
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

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Yves R. Simon : Real World Democracy.
Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers
By Vukan Kuic.
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

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The Rise and Decline of the State.
By Martin van Creveld.
Cambridge U.

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The Challenge of Carl Schmitt.
Ed. by Chantal Mouffe.
1999

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The Desire of the Nations : Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology.
By Oliver O'Donovan.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1996.
(Paperback 1999)

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August 1999

 

 

 

Metaphysics and Its Task : The Search for the Categorical Foundation of Knowledge.
By Jorge J. E. Gracia.
New York: State U. of New York, 1999.

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Against the Idols of the Age.
By Roger Kimball & David Stove.
Transaction, 1999

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  • An anthology of texts of the Australian philosopher David Stove (against postmodernism, Darwinism, idealism, etc.)

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The Ever Illuminating Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.
By Peter Kreeft, Ralph McInerny & al.
San Francisco: Ignastius, 1999.

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July 1999

 

 

 

Faith on Trial.
By Pamela B. Ewen.
Broadman & Holman, 1999.

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What Sort of Human Nature? : Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology
(Aquinas Lecture, 1999) 
By Marilyn McCord Adams.
Milwaukee: Marquette Univ , 1999.

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The Evidential Force of Religious Experience.
By Caroline F. Davis.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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Religion : The Classical Theories .
By James Thrower.
 Washington D. C.: Georgetown U., 1999.

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Chosen but Free.
By Norman L. Geisler.
Minneapolis, MN: Bethany, 1999

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  • a refutation of extreme calvinism and extreme armenianism, mostly with Biblical arguments, but also with consideration of inconsistency and church history
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Contingency and Fortune in Aquina's Ethics.
By John R. Bowlin.
Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought, 6
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1999.

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  • explains Aquinas'ethics in the light of his understanding of the problem of fortune and contingency
  • situate Aquinas in relation to Aristotle, St. Augustine and the Stoics
  • in particular levels several critics against the exponents of the new natural law theory 

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Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity.
Edited by Polymnia Athanassiadi & Michael Frede.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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Springtime of Evangelization.
By Pope John Paul II.
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

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The Desecularization of the World : Resurgent Religion and World Politics.
Edited by Peter L. Berger & al.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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June 1999

 

 

 

The metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa contra Gentiles, vol. 2.
By Norman Kretzmann.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism .
By Jacques Maritain .
Trans. by J. G. Andison.
Notre Dame: Notre Dame U., 1999.

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Apologetics in the Roman Empire : Pagans, Jews, and Christians.
Edited by M. J. Edwards, Martin Goodman and S. R.
F. Price.
Oxford: Oxford U., 1999

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  • essays covering the apologetics exchanges between Christians, Jews and Pagans from the NT until the 4th century AD
  • does not cover the apologetics against heresies (gnosticism, montanism...)
  • much attention is given to the literary genres of the different types of apologetics (not so much to the arguments and their value)
  • the chapter "The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic text" by L. Alexander may be interesting for many of those interested in the NT 

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Spiritworks : Contemporary Views on the Gifts of the Spirit and the Bible .
By Jerry Vines.
Nashville, TN : Broadman & Holman, 1999.

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Bioethics : A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age.
By  Scott B. Rae, Paul Cox.
Critical Issues in Bioethics
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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May 1999

 

 

 

Metaphysics and the Idea of God.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg.
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

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Anthropology in Theological Perspective.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg .
Trans. by M. J. O Connell
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

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Introduction to Systematic Theology.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg .
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

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Understanding Spiritual Gifts : A Verse-By-Verse Study of 1 Corinthians 12-14.
By Robert L. Thomas.
2nd ed.
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999.

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  • A sound exegesis, at a time where the Bible is misused to justify occult experiences.
  • this new edition answers recent charismatic books (by Carson, Grudem...)

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Aquinas's Moral Theory : Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann.
Edited by Norman Kretzmann et al.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U., 1999.

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  • explores Aquinas' ethics in relation to his metaphysics, his philosophy of language, his philosophical psychology, etc.

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Aquinas's Moral Theory : Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann.
Edited by Norman Kretzmann et al.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U., 1999.

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  • explores Aquinas' ethics in relation to his metaphysics, his philosophy of language, his philosophical psychology, etc.

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The American Myth of Religious Freedom.
By Kenneth R. Craycraft.
Dallas, Tx.: Spence, 1999.

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  • a critic of the deist view of subordinating religion to politics, which is shown to hinder religion
  • proposes an alternative based on the Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae personae

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Other Losses : The Shocking Truth Behind the Mass Deaths of Disarmed German Soldiers and Civilians Under General Eisenhower's Command.
By James Bacque.
Little Brown, 1999.

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April 1999

 

 

The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism.
Edited by Brendan Sweetman
Washington, D.C.: Catholic U. of America, 1999.

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  • a wide-ranging contemporary critique of modernism, from epistemology to ethics and politics
  • many  contributors make use of the classical or thomistic thought

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God, Religion and Reality : The Case of Christian Theism.
By Stephen R. L. Clark.
SPCK, 1999.

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  • also engages with people like Dawkins

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A Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima.
By St. Thomas Aquinas.
Intr., ed., annot. and trans. by Robert Passau.
New Haven: Yale U., 1999.

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  • uses an improved latin text (1984)

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Great Thinkers on Great Questions.
Edited by Roy Abraham Varghese.
Oneworkd, 1999.

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  • collects the views of some mainline contemporary protestant and catholic philosophers on some basic philosophical issues

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How to Stay Christian in College : An Interactive Guide to Keeping the Faith.
By J. Budziszewski.
Colorado Spring, Col.: Navpress, 1999.

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The Routledge Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology .
Edited by Peter Coles.
London: Routledge, 1999.

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God Crucified : Monotheism and the Christology in the New Testament.
By Richard Bauckhan.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999.

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  • clarifies Judaism's monotheistic concept of God
  • shows that the highest christology was central to the earliest church, from the very beginnings
  • this short work (79 p.) anounces Bauckham's  coming more academic treatment (tentative title: Jesus and the Identity of God: Jewish Monotheism and New Testament Christology.)

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The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality.
By Marion Montgomery.
Dallas, Tx.: Spence, 1999.

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  • shows that the deep roots of the educational crisis are not so recent, but were laid down in the 14th century in a flight from realism
  • covers many disciplines, in particular literary theory

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The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education.
Edited by Daniel McInerny.
Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of america, 1999.

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  • critics contemporary education, esp. its too common limitation to the useful
  • defends a return to an emphasis towards the basic truths that transcends cultures and utility

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The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley .
Edited by David Wienir & Marc Berley.
Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition, 1999.

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  • essays by students about the intellectual tyranny of the political correctness program of the leftist now running the public  universities

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Augustine's City of God: a Reader's Guide.
By Gerald O'Daly.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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March 1999

 

 

The Devil Knows Latin : Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.
By E. Christian Kopff.
Intercollegiate Studies Inst, 1999.

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  • a plea for reintroducing the study of the classical language

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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Edited by Thomas S. Hibbs.
Hackett, 1999.

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  • compilation of texts by Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Edited by Stephen F. Brown.
Hackett, 1999.

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  • compilation of texts by Aquinas

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Three Views on Creation and Evolution .
Edited by James P. Moreland , John Mark Reynolds and Paul Nelson.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999

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  • exposition of 3 Christian views on origins by their proponents, each presentation being followed by a critic by the four commentators (each times the same four)
  • does not so much deal with the natural sciences but rather with the theological and philosophical sciences
  • nothing really new, but mostly interesting for revealing the paradigms: one specific interpretation of Genesis for Young Earth Creationism, theism for Old Earth Creationism. and deism (!) for "Theistic" Evolution

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Speaking in Tongues and Public Worship : First Corinthians 14 .
(Exegetical Commentary Series)
By Spiros Zodhiates.
Reprint.
Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 1999.

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The New World Religion..
By Gary H. Kah.
Hope Intl, 1999

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Carl Schmitt.
By William E. Scheuerman
Rowman & Littlefield.

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  • over the Catholic philosopher Schmitt and his influence on American political theorists

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Send In The Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 .
By Vin Suprynowicz 
Mountain Media, 1999.

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  • exposes the growing goverment hypocrisy and tiranny under the Clinton administration

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February 1999

 

 

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Baker Dictionary of Christian Apologetics
By Norman L. Geisler.
Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999.

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  • entirely written by the leading apologist, this work represents the culmination of the American protestant apologetic revival at the end of the 20th century

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The DNA of God.
By Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.

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  • explains why radiocarbondating is not reliable for the shroud and other ancient similar textiles (Mayan, etc.)
  • reveal new clues about the shroud...

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Iberian Fathers : Pacian of Barcelona and Orosius of Braga : Writings
Edited by Craig L. Hanson.
The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 99.
Catholic Univ. of America, 1999

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In Defense of Natural Law.
By Robert. P. George.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

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  • not only a defense of natural law but also a refutation of some regnant liberal beliefs (about abortion, sexuality, religion, etc.)

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Homosexuality and American Public Life.
Edited by Christopher Wolfe.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

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  • an integrated study of homosexuality by biologists, psychologists, philosophers, etc.

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Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen.
By James Bovard .
St Martin, 1999.

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  • against the excesses of statism and bureaucracy leading to totalitarism

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The Degrees of Knowledge.
By Jacques Maritain.
Edited by Ralph McInerny.
The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain.
Notre Dame, Ind.: U. of Notre Dame, 1999.

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Redirecting Philosophy : Reflections on the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan.
By Hugo A. Meynell .
Univ of Toronto, 1999

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Means to Message; a Treatise on Truth.
By Stanley L. Jaki.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

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  • sound philosophy (mostly metaphysics, but also mind, ethics, etc.) by a gifted historian and philosopher of natural science

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Selected Writings.
By St. Thomas Aquinas.
Ed. by Ralph McInerny
New York: Penguin, 1999.

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  • 880 pages, edited by a leading thomist

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Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
Intr., ed. and comm. by Patrick G. Walsh.
Oxford: Oxford U., 1999.

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  • a new translation, with explanatory notes

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Philosophy of Religion: a Contemporary Introduction.
By Keith E. Yandell.
London: Routledge, 1999.

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  • strong analytical style, making it a more difficult read than the other volumes in the Routledge serie of Introductions to Philosophy
  • instead of having references to Christianity like other books dealing with phil. of religion, considers monotheism (classical theism), Advaita Vedanta (Hinduism), Jainism and Theravada Buddhism

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A Companion to Philosophy of Religion.
Edited by Philip L. Quinn & Charles Taliaferro.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

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  • many short introductory essays, covering most issues in a systematic way.

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Philosophy of Religion : A Guide to the Subject.
Edited by Brian Davies.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown U., 1999.

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  • some good essays
  • but also some essays are not so good, and the errors there could have been avoided if the thomistic papers (on Reformed Epistemology, or on Transcendental thomism..) and more resources had been consulted.

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God Is: From Question to Proof to Embracing the Truth.
By Joseph H. Casey.
University of America, 1999.

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  • very accessible and still with contents of very high quality; also very clear (chapter conclusions) and excellent annoted bibliography
  • complete approach to the problem (cultural, historical, personal-experimental and philosophical)
  • Casey, a prof. a philo. who was a student a Flew and is well acquainted with the works of prominent atheists (Mackie, Martin, ...) answers with a powerful thomist argumentation
  • although written without any sophistication, this book may be  the best one among those recently published on this subject

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Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy.
Ed. by Michael Beaty et al.
Mercer U., 1999.

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Narrative and the Natural Law : An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics .
By Pamela M. Hall.
Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame, 1999.

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Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that changed History.
By Walter C. Piltman and William B. F.Ryan.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

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  • A new theory according to which Noah's flood was the flooding of the Black Sea
  • an alternative to the theory of the Mesopotamian flooding

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Quantum Measurement : Beyond Paradox.
Edited by Richard A. Healey & al.
U. of Minnesota, 1999

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Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.
By Wendy Shalit.
New York: Free Press, 1999

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  • a surprising bestseller, by a modern 23 year old girl rejecting the sexual decadence of the 60ies and pleading for a return to feminine virtue and respect.

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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us : Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman.
By Danielle Crittenden.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

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  • Another women book revelatory of the new female trend (rejection and arguments against feminism; realization of the importance of family values and motherhood and the fulfillment that comes therewith)

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Heterophobia : Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism.
By Daphne Patai.
American Intellectual Culture.
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

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  • although written by a feminist, denouces how the feminist movement has become totalitarian and very dangerous for society

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The Church Impotent : The Feminization of Christianity.
By Leon J. Podles.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

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  • An analysis on the very low proportion of male church attendance & involvement.

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The Gothic Age: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting.
Edited by Rolf Toman.
Cologne: Könemann, 1999.

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  • huge book with many gorgious pictures at a unexpected low price
  • focusses on architecture & sculpture, but covers also paintings,  stained glass, miniatures, jewelry, etc.
  • many quality articles, mostly by German scholars

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