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ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL E
Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
Mary Eberstadt
Secular 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 ground-breaking book by noted essayist
and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual
freedom has paradoxically produced widespread
discontent. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim
Sorokin, Carle Zimmerman, and others; philosopher
G.E.M. Anscombe and novelist Tom Wolfe;
and a host of feminists, food writers, musicians,
and other voices from across today’s popular culture,
Eberstadt 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.
Adam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book
has before the seismic social changes caused by the
sexual revolution. In examining human behavior in
the post-liberation world, Eberstadt provocatively
asks: Is food the new sex? Is pornography the new
tobacco?
Adam and Eve after the Pill will change the way
readers view the paradoxical impact of the sexual
revolution on ideas, morals, and humanity itself.
“A compelling and provocative look at why an
about-face is needed now to save Western Civilization
from a cultural Doomsday.”
— JOHNETTE S. BENKOVIC,
Founder of Women of Grace ®
“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
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SAINTS ARE NOT SAD E
Short Biographies of Joyful Saints
Assembled by Frank Sheed
he only tragedy is not to be a saint”, wrote
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the French novelist Léon Bloy. And St.
Francis de Sales said that “A sad saint would be
a sorry saint.” But what is a saint? One way to
answer is to analyze sanctity, theologically and
psychologically. Another way, which is the path
Frank Sheed chose in creating this volume, is to
show you a saint-or rather, since no two saints are
alike-to show you a number of saints. In this book,
you are shown forty saints.
The saints Sheed chose for this collection are
from various time periods: six before A.D. 500, seventeen
from then to the Reformation, and seventeen
from the Reformation to the middle of the twentieth
century. Many are well known, like St. Anthony,
Francis, Augustine, Patrick and Bernadette, while
others are lesser known, for example, Columcille
and Malachy.
The same can be said for the various authors
of these short biographies. Among them are the
famous like Hilaire Belloc, Alban Goodier and
G.K. Chesterton, as well as priests and laymen
whose names may no longer be familiar but whose
writing still brings to life men and women whose
closeness to God gave them purpose, strength, and
yes, joy.
Frank Sheed and his wife, Maise Ward, founded the
well-known London publishing house Sheed and
Ward in 1926. Together they published some of the
finest Catholic literature of the first half of the twentieth
century. Known for his sharp mind and clarity
of expression, Sheed became a famous Catholic
apologist, writing several books including Theology
and Sanity, A Map of Life, and To Know Christ Jesus.
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