The death of metaphysics; the death of culture

Section I. Metaphysics and epistemology: the foundations of culture and morality

1. A ccepting God's Offer of Personal Communion in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church
Patrick Lee

2. Whose Nature? Natural Law in a Pluralistic World
Kevin Wm. Wildes

3. Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of A Christian Epistemology
W. Jay Wood

4. God Manifested in God's Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition
Randall C. Zachman

5. Holy Knowing: A Wesleyan Epistemology
James R. Thobaben

Section II. Cultural variations and moral casuistry

6. Subversive Natural Law: MacIntyre and African-American Thought
Thomas S. Hibbs

7. Is there a Distinctive American Version of Natural Law?
Griffin Trotter

8. Why did the Principle of Double Effect Appear in the West?
William J. Zanardi

Section III. Applications and criticisms

9. How much Guidance can a Secular Natural Law Ethic Offer? A Study of Basic Human Goods in Ethical Decision-Making
James M. Dubois

10. On Women's Health Care: In Search of Nature and Norms
Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

11. Toward an Inclusive Epistemology
Anthony E. Giampietro

Section IV. A moral culture without metaphysics is empty

12. Using Natural Law to Guide Public Morality: The Blind Leading the Deaf
Nicholas Capaldi

13. Ethical Life and the Natural Law: Hegel and the Limits of Morality
Peter Wake

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