![]() ![]() Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Author, Jacob s Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth If I were a pastor, I would make this book required reading for engaged couples in all my marriage classes. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From this foundation of happiness Kaczor explores the nature of marriage, and the love they promise to each other, which is agape, a self ![]() But what exactly is happiness? And how can we find it? The saints and psychologists agree: there can be no real happiness without authentic love-erotic love, friendship love, and self-giving love (agape). ![]() ![]() Every day, in whatever we do, we seek this goal. The foundation of Kaczor's approach is happiness. It aims to show to skeptical readers that what the Catholic Church teaches about controversial issues is rationally justified by considering evidence from psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The book's interdisciplinary approach, following the precedent of Thomas Aquinas, looks to human happiness and fulfillment, properly understood, in seeking the answers to questions about how to live. Appealing to reason rather than religious authority, the book tackles the most controversial and talked about positions of the Catholic Church - on contraception, on marriage, on reproductive technologies, on cohabitation, and on divorce - arguing for the reasonableness of the Church's views on these issues. This work explores some of the most interesting and vexing problems in contemporary life. ![]()
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