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 Architects
of the Culture of Death
Authors: Donald De Marco & Benjamin Wiker
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Judie Brown
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. THE WILL WORSHIPPERS
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
2. THE EUGENIC EVOLUTIONISTS
Charles Darwin
Francis Galton
Ernst Haeckel
3. THE SECULAR UTOPIANISTS
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte
Judith Jarvis Thomson
4. THE ATHEISTIC EXISTENTIALISTS
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Elisabeth Badinter
5. THE PLEASURE SEEKERS
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Reich
Helen Gurley Brown
6. THE SEX PLANNERS
Margaret Mead
Alfred Kinsey
Margaret Sanger
Clarence Gamble
Alan Guttmacher
7. THE DEATH PEDDLERS
Derek Humphrey
Jack Kevorkian
Peter Singer
Conclusion: Personalism and the Culture of Life
Architects
of the Culture of Death
Authors: Donald De Marco & Benjamin Wiker
Length: 410 pages
Edition: Paperback
Your Price: $16.95
The “Culture of Death” has become a popular phrase, and is much
bandied about in academic circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains
vague and remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death high
definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed its roots by introducing
its “architects.” In a scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation
of the mindsets of twenty-three influential thinkers, such as Ayn Rand,
Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger,
Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer, they make clear the aberrant thought and
malevolent intentions that have shaped the Culture of Death.
Still, this is not a book without hope. If the Culture of Death rests on
a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God, hope for the “Culture
of Life” rests on an understanding and restoration of the human being
as a person, and the rediscovery of a benevolent God. The “Personalism”
of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects,
serving as a hopeful antidote.
“An action-packed, riveting and educational exposé
that reveals little-known facts that are shocking and incredible. You
will not want to put this book down...”
—Judie Brown, President, Americal Life League
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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