Contents
Foreword - Cardinal Thomas Collins
Acknowledgments - Matthew Nelson
Introduction - Matthew Nelson
PART I – NEW AUDIENCES
1 - Nones Are Not “Nothings” – Stephen Bullivant
2 - Awakening the Indifferent – Bobby Angel
3 - Why Catholics Fall Away: A Priest’s Perspective – Fr. Blake Britton
4 - The Reason and the Remedy: Bringing the Lapsed Christian Home
– Tod Worner
5 - Moral Relativism: Arguments For and Against – Francis J. Beckwith
6 - Countering Scientific Materialism – Stephen Barr
PART II – NEW APPROACHES
7 - Digital Apologetics: Defending the Faith Online – Brandon Vogt
8 - New Epiphanies of Beauty – Michael Stevens
9 - Sowing “Seeds of the Word” – Andrew Petiprin
10 - The Heart of Affirmative Orthodoxy – John L. Allen Jr.
11 - Truth, Meaning, and the Christian Imagination – Holly Ordway
PART III – NEW MODELS
12 - Socrates – Trent Horn
13 - St. Augustine – Matthew Levering
14 - St.Thomas Aquinas – John DeRosa
15 - Blaise Pascal – Peter Kreeft
16 - G.K. Chesterton – Dale Ahlquist
17 - C.S. Lewis – Fr. Michael Ward
18 - Flannery O’Connor – Matthew Becklo
19 - René Girard – Grant Kaplan
20 - Joseph Ratzinger – Richard DeClue
PART IV – NEW ISSUES
Science and Faith
21 - Theology and Science: How and Why – Christopher Baglow
22 - Defending a Historical Adam and Eve in an Evolving Creation
- Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP
23 - Free Will and Its Challenges from Neuroscience – Daniel De Haan
24 - The Quantum Revolution and the Reconciliation of Science and Humanism - Robert C. Koons
25 - Creation and the Cosmos – Jonathan Lunine
26 - Artificial Intelligence: Religion of Technology – Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP
Psychology and Anthropology
27 - Psychology and Religion – Christopher Kaczor
28 - Happiness and the Meaning of Life – Jennifer Frey
29 - Matters of Life and Death – Stephanie Gray Connors
30 - Anthropological Fallacies – Ryan T. Anderson
31 - The “Fourth Age” of Human Communications – Jimmy Akin
Theology and Philosophy
32 - The Threefold Way – Fr. James Dominic Brent, OP
33 - New Challenges to Natural Theology – Edward Feser
34 - Doubt and Certainty – Tyler Dalton McNabb
35 - The Existence of the Immortal Soul – Turner C. Nevitt
36 - Dark Passages of the Bible – Matthew J. Ramage
37 - Resurrection and the Future – David Baird
38 - Ecumenical Apologetics – Archbishop Donald Bolen
Atheism and Culture
39 - The Mirror of Evil – Eleonore Stump
40 - The Argument from Divine Hiddenness – Fr. Gregory Pine, OP
41 - Wokeness and Social Justice – Matthew R. Petrusek
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