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Andrew Dean Swafford

John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again

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Have you ever struggled to explain the basics of a Christian worldview, particularly as it concerns God's existence and his relation to the natural order, the basics of morality, even sexual ethics? Utilizing the thought of the late Pope John Paul II and the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, Dr. Andrew Swafford has done just this.

This book explains the philosophical underpinnings of a Christian worldview--in a way that is accessible to the general reader--discussing God's existence, faith and reason, a tour through a virtue-ethics which leads to authentic happiness (and discussing the seven deadly sins along the way), as well as John Paul II's teaching on the “language” of the body and the meaning of the human vocation to make a gift of one's self. The reader will come away with a deep understanding of the philosophical foundations for the Christian life.
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107 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • ennkeybeautyhas quoted4 years ago
    But when we see our lives as part of the great story of salvation—begun in the Garden and continuing way beyond the death of the last Apostle—our lives are then seen in light of the great tapestry of divine providence; a story in which we all have our own part to play—young or old—and a part that perhaps won’t be played unless we answer the call
  • ennkeybeautyhas quoted4 years ago
    All truth is anchored in the real and all reality participates in God, because God is the One who gives it being; and God has revealed in the fullness of time that his Son is the Logos, the Word, and so all truth takes on a Christo-centric dimension, whether natural or revealed
  • ennkeybeautyhas quoted4 years ago
    This is why martyrdom has been seen by the Christian tradition as the completion of discipleship—imitation of Christ has always been the first principle of Christian spirituality.120 But for most of us, this “martyrdom” likely won’t entail blood; however, it will entail the daily death to ourselves—to our desires/wants, to the “me-centered” part of us all—that part of us so often preoccupied by the seven deadly sins.
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