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December

 

 

 

Love and Knowledge in Modern Thomism.
By Eileen Grieco.
American University Studies. Series V, Philosophy ; Vol. 175
New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

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Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment? : A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann.
by Paul Copan (Editor), Ronald Tacelli (Editor
InterVarsity)

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Nobilitas.
By Alexander Jacob.
University Press of America

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  • Evaluation of the aristocratic tradition

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November

 

 

 

Naturalism : A Critical Analysis.
by William Lane Craig (Editor), J. P. Moreland (Editor)
Routledge

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Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity.
by William Lane Craig
Kluwer Academic

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The Tensed Theory of Time : A Critical Examination.
by William Lane Craig
Kluwer Academic

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October

 

 

 

The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt.
By Gopal Balakrishnan.
2000.

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Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus : A Re-Examination of the Evidence.
By Jonathan L. Reed.
Trinity, 2000

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Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment : A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann.
Edited by Ronald Tacelli & Paul Copan. 
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2000.

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Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate.
By John W. Cooper.
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans , 2000
(reprint of 1989 ed. with extended new introduction.)

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  •  defends the traditional dualist (body/soul)  Biblical interpretation
  • an antidote to the current use of Talmudic monist interpretation of the Old Testament, and the recent monist interpretation of St. Paul's anthropology

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The Case for Marriage : Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially .
By Linda Waite & Maggie Gallagher.
New York: Doubleday, 2000.

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September

 

 

 

God Wills It! : An Illustrated History of the Crusades.
by W. B. Bartlett

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Naturalism : A Critical Analysis.
Edited by William L. Craig & James P. Moreland.
London: Routledge, 2000.

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Morality : The Catholic View.
By Servais Pinckaers.
Tr. by M. Sherwin. 
St. Augustine, 2000.

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Intelligence : A New Look.
By Hans J. Eysenck.
Transaction, 2000.

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August 

 

 

Judaism's Strange Gods.
By Michael A. Hoffman.
Independent History, 2000

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  • a necessary apologetics work for clearing up the major confusion that judaïsm is the prolongation of Old Testament religion and should the less be used to interpret it and the less to judaïcize christianity
  • shows that (rabbinic) Judaism is Babylonian phariseanism and has an unbiblical worldview (talmudic, esoteric - Kabbalah. etc.)

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July

 

 

 

Religious Commitment and Secular Reason.
By Robert Audi.
Cambridge : Cambridge U., 2000.

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Sartor Resartus.
By Thomas Carlyle
Ed. by K. McSweeney & P. Sabor.
Oxford World's Classics
Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000.

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The Saviour of Science.
By Stanley L. Jaki.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000
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  • shows that modern experimental science could only be born within Christendom

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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.
By Norman G. Finkelstein.
Verso, 2000.

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  • A Jewish scholar honestly explains how many  Jewish war claims are invented or exagerated to serve international extortion racket

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June 

 

 

Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God.
By Marilyn McCord Adams.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell U., 2000.

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  • not analytical, but original, dealing with those evils that really seem meaningless like extreme cases of suffering and that are not answered with usual theodicees (free will, souil-making)
  • try to make sense of suffering not only as a global good, but also in the narrow perspective of the individual
  • uses Christian insights such as Chalcedonian christology

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The Day and the Hour :Christianity's Perennial Fascination with Predicting the End of the World.
By Francis X. Gumerlock, James Talmage.
Amer Vision P, 2000.

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  • about the failure and danger of sectarian, fundamentalist futurist predictions throughout the ages

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May

 

 

 

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent : Selected Essays.
By Lionel Trilling.
Ed. by L. Wieseltier
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000.

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Legality and Legitimacy : Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar.
By David Dyzenhaus
Oxford Univ Press, 2000..

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Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity.
By Carol Harrison.
Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.

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God and Goodness.
By Hugh A. L. Rice.
Oxford: Oxford U., 2000

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  • argues fdr the rationality of God's existence

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Those Terrible Middle Ages : Debunking the Myths.
By Regine Pernoud.
Tr. by A. E. Nash.
San Francisco :  Ignatius, 2000.

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An Eye for an Eye.
By John Sack.
John Sack, 2000.

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  • A Jewish book over Over the Jewish-run post-war extermination camps for German civilians

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Red Mafiya : How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America.
By Robert I. Friedman.
Little Brown, 2000.

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  • A new cultural plague : the Russian Maffia

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats are trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
By Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton .
Prima

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Choosing a World-View and Value-System : An Ecumenical Apologetics .
By Benedict M. Ashley.
Alba, 2000.

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April

 

 

 

Truth Decay : Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism.
By Douglas R. Groothuis
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2000.

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  • Some good points, but unfortunately uses a weak  apologetics method (presuppositionalism)

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Body & Soul : Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics.
By James P. Moreland & Scott B. Rae.
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2000.

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  • an up-to-date reflection on personhood and defense of substance dualism (the existence of the soul)
  • applies these conclusionuses to solve the current ethical crisis (abortion, fetal experimentations, cloning, euthanasy...)

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After Progress.
By Anthony O'Hear .
Bloomsbury, 2000.

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Jesus outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence .
By Robert E. Van Voorst.
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 2000

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  • supersedes all preceeding works
  • contains very interesting discussions (e. .g about Josephus' testimony)

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Eusebius of Caesarea against Paganism.
By Aryeh Kofsky.
Leiden: Brill, 2000. 

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Crusade Propaganda and Ideology : Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross.
by Christoph T. Maier (Editor)

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  •  bilingual Latin/English

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March

 

 

The Unaccommodated Calvin : Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition.
By Richard A. Muller.
Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.

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Christian America? : What Evangelicals Really Want.
By Christian Smith.
Univ California, 2000.

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  • a sociological study of evangelicals, destroying prejudices (that evangelicals would be extremists of intolerant...)

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Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief.
By Joseph Pearce.
San Francisco :  Ignatius, 2000.
1st pub London: Harper Collins, 1999.

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  • study of the numerous conversions to Christianity of English-speaking intellectuals during the 1st half of the 20th century, as well as their intellectual milieu, their ideas, etc.

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A New History of Christianity.
By Vivian H. H. Green & Robert Runcie.
Chrion, 1997.
(paperback 2000)

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Different by Design : God's Master Plan for Harmony Between Men and Women in Marriage .
By H. Dale Burke.
Chicago: Moody, 2000.

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  • on the differences between men and women, drawing from psychology and the Bible

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The Christian Imagination : G.K. Chesterton on the Arts.
By Thomas C. Peters.
San Francisco :  Ignatius, 2000.

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February

 

 

 

Trinity and Truth.
By Bruce D. Marshall.
Cambridge: Cambridge, 2000.

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  • tackles difficult philosophical problems of contemporary analytic philosophy about truth and succeeds in solving them by using Aquinas's Trinitarian theology

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Does God Suffer : A Christian Theology of God and Suffering.
By Thomas G. Weinandy.
Notre Dame, Ind.: U. of Notre Dame, 2000.

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Modernity : Christianity's Estranged Child Reconstructed.
By John Thornhill.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

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  • a cultural critic of postmodernism and a plea for an alliance between Christianity and modernity

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Common Truths : New Perspectives on Natural Law.
Ed. by Edward. B. McLean & a.
ISI, 2000

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Natural and Divine Law : Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics.
By Jean Porter.
Grand Rapids, Mich. :  Eerdmans, 2000

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January

 

 

 

Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta.
By Michael V. Wedin.
Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.

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On Inoculating Moral Philosophy Against God.
(Aquinas Lecture, 2000)
By John M. Rist
Marquette, 2000.

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Postmodernism and the New Enlightenment.
By Hugo A. Meynell.
Washington D. C.: Catholic U. of America, 2000.

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The Charismatic Gift of Prophecy.
By Kenneth L. Gentry.
Wipf & Stock, 2000.

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  • a preterist view

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