Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students

by J. Budziszewski

Publisher:

NavPress

, 2014

Overview

The college years are full of life-defining questions and concerns. Dr Budziszewski (aka Professor Theophilus) offers his expert opinion to help students achieve personal insight about the most controversial and confusing topics they may face.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The meaning of the natural. Our nature is how God designed us, so what’s natural for human beings isn’t whatever you can find some animal doing; it’s whatever fulfills our design.” (source)

“Love is a commitment of the will to the true good of the other person.’” (source)

“That’s what sin does—it destroys us. Yours destroys you; mine destroys me. And so the Lover doesn’t accept it; He hates it with an inexorable hatred. To cut the cancer out of us, He will do whatever it takes—like a surgeon. No, more than like a surgeon. If you let Him, He will even take the cancer upon Himself and die in your place.’” (source)

“He would loathe and detest whatever destroyed the beloved’s good—no matter how much the beloved desired it.” (source)

“ main point of Christian sexual morality is that human nature is designed.” (source)

Product Details

• Title : Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students
• Author: Budziszewski, J.
• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication Date: 2014
• ISBN: 9781615214747

About J. Budziszewski

J. Budziszewski (born 1952) is professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two fields with religion and theology. Budziszewski has written widely, in both scholarly and popular venues, about a variety of moral and political issues including abortion, marriage, sexuality, capital punishment, and the role of judges in a constitutional republic.