In Defense of Purity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

Publisher:

Hildebrand Project

, 2017

Overview

In Defense of Purity offers a fundamental view of the very essence and meaning of purity. Hildebrand’s insights on love, marriage, virginity, and sexuality offer fresh wisdom to people in any stage of life, from first dates, to religious vows, to golden anniversaries.

Product Details

• Title: In Defense of Purity: An Analysis of the Catholic Ideals of Purity and Virginity
• Author: Dietrich von Hildebrand
• Publisher: Hildebrand Project
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 148
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Sex › Religious aspects--Catholic Church; Virginity › Religious aspects--Catholic Church
• ISBNs: 9781939773036, 1939773032
• Resource ID: LLS:DEFENSEPURITY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:34:54Z

About Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand (October 12, 1889 – January 26, 1977) was a German Catholic philosopher and theologian who was called (informally) by Pope Pius XII “the 20th Century Doctor of the Church. ” Pope John Paul II greatly admired the work of von Hildebrand, remarking once to von Hildebrand’s widow, Alice von Hildebrand, “Your husband is one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century.