Christian Heritage : Problems And Prospects

Foreword
Martin E. Marty
Prologue

1. The Triumph Of Christianity

2. Beowulf (521-800?)

3. Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204)

4. Thomas Aquinas ( 1224 – 1274)

5. Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

6. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375)

7. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – 1400)

8. Thomas More (1478 – 1535)

9. Martin Luther (1483 – 1548)

10. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533 – 1592)

11. Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)

12. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

13. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

14. Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)

15. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

16. Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)

17. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

18. The Modern Greek Character And Islam

19. A Memo To Prostestants

20. Public Funds And Church-sponsored Schools

21. Reason Versus Revelation Reconsidered

22. Morality And The Law Of Abortion

23. Animal Sacrifices And The Sacrifice Of Morality

24. On Physician-assisted Suicide

25. Mortality And Happiness

26. The Case For Israel

Epilogue

Appendices: Further Thoughts On The Moral Challenges Of Our Time

A. European Jews, Their “Christian” Neighbors, And The Holocaust (2000)

B. On The Right To Live As A Beggar: Reflections By Moonlight (2001-2002)

C. On Knowing Oneself: Projections And Introspection (2003)

D. On Facts And Theories: Lessons For Law Students From Ptolemy’s Astronomy (2004)

E. Christmas Stories (2004)

F. Still Another Look At Taoism (2005)

G. On The Apparent Knowability Of The Good (2005)

H. On Properly Knowing Oneself (2006)

I. Come, All Ye Faithful: St. John Chrysostom And The Meaning Of Christmas (2006)

J. An Academic Autobiography, By Way Of St. Thomas And St. Ignatius (2008)

K. Struggles For The Soul Of Christendom (2008)

L. On Truly Knowing What One Is Trying To Do: The Mystery Of Evil (2008)

M. Glimpses Of Leo Strauss, Jacob Klein, And St. John’s College (2009)

Additional Info
The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects delves into the history of the western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and by the western classics, have been stimulated by the very success of the way of life that is promoted, a way of life that is somehow responsible for the emergence of modern science with its revolutionary technology.

The reader is encouraged to reconsider authors prominent in the religious tradition of the West. Guidance is provided for examinations of the fundamental assumptions and the enduring questions by which Western Civilization has been guided and challenged for millennia. The enduring texts that we in the West repeatedly encounter, especially the most challenging of them, are apt to draw upon, and to illuminate the fundamental assumptions and the enduring questions by which Western Civilization has been guided and challenged for millennia. Vital to Western Civilization has long been the Christian Heritage. That Heritage has been taken for granted in our general education, in something as prosaic as the everyday operations of our legal system, and perhaps even in our economic and other social arrangements.