SPRING 2013 - Ignatius Press

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What is Marriage Man and Woman: A Defense
Robert George, Sherif Girgis, Ryan Anderson
This book’s core argument has already been cited and debated
by scholars and activists throughout the world as the most formidable
defense of natural marriage ever written. It stands poised
to meet its moment as few books of this generation have. Rhodes
Scholar Sherif Girgis, Heritage Foundation Fellow Ryan Anderson,
and Princeton Professor Robert George offer a devastating critique
of the idea that equality requires redefining marriage. They show
why both sides must first answer the question of what marriage
really is. They defend the principle that marriage, as a comprehensive
union of mind and body ordered to family life, unites a man
and a woman as husband and wife, and they document the social
value of applying this principle in law.
Most compellingly, they show that those who embrace same-sex
civil marriage leave no firm ground—none—for not recognizing
every relationship describable in polite English, including polyamorous
sexual unions, and that enshrining their view would further
erode the norms of marriage, and hence the common good.
WIM-P . . . Quality Softcover, 155 pp, $15.95
Adam and Eve after the Pill E
Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
Mary Eberstadt
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ecular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one
of the most important milestones in human history. Perhaps
nothing has changed life for so many, so fast, as the severing of
sex and procreation. But what has been the result This groundbreaking
book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends
that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread
discontent. She makes her contrarian case with an impressive array
of evidence. Her chapters range across academic disciplines and
include supporting evidence from contemporary literature and
music, women’s studies, college memoirs, dietary guides, advertisements,
television shows, and films.
“Mary Eberstadt is our premier analyst of American cultural
foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate
just how strange the country’s moral culture has become.”
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
AEAP-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 175 pp, $15.95
The Reach of Roe Eugenics, Euthanasia, and
Other Assaults on the Dignity of Human Life
Edited by Anne Conlon
his new collection of essays from the Human Life Review is a
Tcompanion volume to The Debate Since Roe (2010), a primer
designed to convey the facts and arguments on abortion and to
chronicle the decades-long struggle of the pro-life movement to
keep the issue before the American public. In The Reach of Roe:
Eugenics, Euthanasia, and Other Assaults on the Dignity of Human
Life, the focus is on culture—specifically, how profoundly the
40-year-old Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on demand
has permeated our nation’s institutions: legal, medical, scientific,
religious, educational. While essays on euthanasia and physicianassisted
suicide—along with in vitro fertilization, cloning, and
embryonic stem-cell research—predominate, the reader will also
find considerations of subjects as seemingly diverse as pornography,
the U.S. Constitution, and the “inhumanity” that often attends
being fired from a job in corporate America today. John Noonan,
Lino Graglia, Harold O.J. Brown, Rita Marker, Francis Canavan,
Steven Mosher, John Muggeridge, Ellen Wilson Fielding, Maria
McFadden, Wesley J. Smith, John Finnis, and David Klinghoffer
are just some of the 34 committed pro-life writers whose important
work is featured here.
RROE-P . . . Quality Softcover, 296 pp, $14.95
Also available: The Debate Since Roe
DSR-P . . . Quality Softcover, 303 pp, $14.95
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