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Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War Paperback – January 1, 1996
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Aware of the deep theological differences of these monotheistic faiths, Kreeft calls for a moratorium on our polemics against each other so that we can form an alliance to fight together to save western civilization. He cites numerous examples of today's Protestants, Jews, Catholics and Muslims working together to solve moral and spiritual problems. God is calling for this unity, Kreeft says, and if we respond, God will do something wonderful.
- Print length172 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIgnatius Pr
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1996
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100898705797
- ISBN-13978-0898705799
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- Publisher : Ignatius Pr; First Edition (January 1, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 172 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0898705797
- ISBN-13 : 978-0898705799
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
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The case for American decadence is put forth in this summary from Chapter 7:
Before the 20th century is over, the world will sink so spectacularly into decadence that blasphemy and pornography the likes of which you would not have imagined will be protected by law and the most innocent and inoffensive public pieties will be forbidden, such as prayer in public schools. The Ten Commandments will be torn down from all public places, and in their place will be put homoerotic and sadomasochistic art more blatant than your darkest youth conceived. The law will forbid the display of Christ in a Christmas creche but will protect the display of Christ in a jar of an artist’s urine – I cannot even speak the blasphemous title of this abomination. Millions of mothers will be persuaded to slaughter their unborn sons and daughters every year. One-third of all babies conceived will be aborted. The law will remove all protection from these holy innocents, and the media will cooperate by lies, censorship, and brainwashing. The most dreaded sexually transmitted disease, as viewed by the liberal media, will be children. Half of all marriages will fail. In the large cities, most children will be illegitimate. Virginity will become a stigma and a rarity, and fornication will become the norm. Public schools will confiscate Bibles and distribute condoms. Propaganda for fornication, contraception, abortion, and sodomy will be disguised as “sex education” and forced upon little children.
Among the many solutions Peter Kreeft proposes is that America should adopt these statements about morality:
1. Morality is necessary for society to survive. The alternative is barbarism, decadence and chaos.
2. Morality is not restricted to religions or partisan political parties. Morality is universally known and universally binding. We all know in our hearts what good and evil are, and we are all responsible for living the way we know we ought to live.
3. Morality is natural, or based on human nature. There is a natural moral law which is discovered, and not invented. It is not man-made, arbitrary or changeable. Its laws are intrinsic to human nature.
4. Morality is liberating, not repressive. Morality is a set of directions for how to make our human natures flourish and let us reach our full potential.
5. Morality takes effort. Like love, morality is work, not feeling. It is a fight against the forces of evil in all of us. Today it has become a fight against forces in our culture.
6. Morality gives meaning and purpose and direction to life. It is road map to the good life.
7. Morality gives human beings dignity. Its basis is the intrinsic value of the human person. It commands us to love people and use things, not use people and love things. People are ends, and things are means to ends.
8. Morality is reasonable. It is intelligent and it is based on truth. Morality sees a real difference between good and bad actions and lifestyles.
9. Morality is not simply about “freedoms” and “rights”, but about duties and responsibilities.
10. Morality is not legalistic. Its essence is not a set of rules but a vision of the good life and the good person; not only moral laws but character. No set of rules will work without personal virtues.
Ecumenical Jihad is an important book that is clearly written with compelling wit and style.
Kreeft does not advocate surrendering principles; most believers simply are not going to do so. Catholics are not going to abandon the real presence in the Eucharist; Protestants will continue to reject the infallibility of the Pope. Muslims won't abandon Mohammed. Jews are not likely to accept Christ as Messiah. But yet there remain good reasons for these faiths to unite--in an alliance, while retaining their beliefs--against the common enemy that destroys our culture, that consumes decency and morality and faith, that kills the unborn.
No, this is not a book for the weak of heart or mind (or most liberals). Kreeft pulls no punches, and isn't afraid to call a spade a spade, to say things that will no doubt garner him the "fundamentalist" or "fanatic" or "extremist" label. But this, at root, is a work of hope, of a cautious optimism, of facing adversity with a smile. With the smile of assurance only faith can offer.
Uncompromising, unflinching, sometimes infuriating, Peter Kreeft brings it all back home with an alchemy that is well backed by articulate scholarship.
"In non-essentials diversity, in the essentials unity, and in all things charity." (St. Augustine)
