Table of Contents

Introduction - William E May and Kenneth D Whitehead 1. Catholic Faith and Intrinsically Evil Acts (1978) - Germain Grisez 2. Catholic Theology, Catholic Morality, Catholic Conscience (1978) - Rev Msgr William Smith 3. The Bitter Pill the Catholic Community Swallowed (1978)- Rev Msgr George Kelly 4. God as Prisoner of Our Own Choosing: Critical-historical Study of the Bible (1979) - Rev Dennis J McCarthy 5. Transendental Truth and Cultural Reletavism: A Historian's View (1979) - Glenn W. Olsen 6. Christian Moral Values and Dominant Pshychological Theories: The Case of Kohlberg (1980) - Paul C Vitz 7. Toward a Hermeneutic of Sexuality (1980)- Rev Donald J Keefe SJ 8. Freedom, Christain Values, and Secular Values (1980) - Joseph M Boyle 9. Freedom and the Catholic University (1981) - Rev Richard R Roach 10. Personalism in the Thought of John Paul II (1982) - Rev Roanald Lawler OFM 11. The Fundemental Themes of John Paul II's 'Laborem Exercens'(1982) - John M Finnis 12. Americanism: The "Phantom Heresy" Revisited (1983) - James Hitchcock 13. The Church of Christ and the Catholic Church (1983) - Rev James T O'Connor 14. Existentialism on Trial: Albert Camus's 'The Fall' (1984) - Maura A Daly 15. Derrida or Deity? Deconstruction in the Presence of the Word (1985) - R V Young 16. The Holy and the Good: Relationship beteen Religion and Morality in the Thought of Rudolf Otto and Josef Pieper (1986) - John Haas 17. Natural Law and the Common Good, and American Politics (1987) - Robert P George 18. To Be or Not to Be ... Female (1987) - Joyce A Little 19. The Church's Message to Artists and Scientists (1987) - Benedict M Ashley OP 20. Four Developments in Modern Physics that Subvert Scientific Materialism (1987) - Stephen M Barr 21. The Renewal of the Church: Toward the 21st Century (1987) - Thomas Weinandy OFM 22. Principles in Catholic Scholarship (1988) Patrick Lee 23. Human Life and the Primacy of Contemplation (1989) - Alice Ramos 24. A Historical Perspective on Evangelization in the United States (1990) - Rev Marvin R O'Connell 25. Life Issues in a Pluralistic Culture (1991) - Janet E Smith 26. How the Catholic Church Serves the Common Good (1991) - J Brian Benestead 27. Opening the Mystery of Christ in the Scriptures: Considerations of Approach for Preaching the Scriptures (1992) - Sister Joan Gormley SSMW 28. Catechetics and the Governance of the Church: 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church' (1992) - His Emminence John Cardinal O'Connor 29. The Scriptural Foundations of Natural Family Planning (1993) - Rev Paul Quay SJ 30. America's Catholic Institutions and the New Evangalization (1994) - Gerard V Bradley 31. Church Tradition and the Catholic University (Rev Robert Sololowski Notes

Reviews

"While the title of this formidable book sound old fashioned and woolly, the thirty-one essays or conferences of outstanding thinkers featured in it are not." - Basil Cole OP, 'New Blackfriars', Feb 2002 "This is indeed a fine book, and may even be essential reading for thoese who struggle against the intellectual darkness within and without." - David Stevens, 'Faith Magazine', Sep-Oct 2001