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The Clash of Orthodoxies
In this lecture, the eighth in the Manhattan Forum series, Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those of their morally conservative opponents reflect an irrational religious faith. George shows that this supposition is wrong on both counts. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to secular liberal alternatives.
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Conflict and Accommodation
Matteo Ricci was among the earliest and most influential of the missionaries to China. In addition to leading many people to the Catholic faith with the use of reasoned arguments and a great understanding of (and deep appreciation for) Chinese culture, he also introduced mathematical and scientific innovations to China from the Western World. Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D., delivers a lecture on this important figure to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Riccis death.
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Defense of Life: Prevailing by Argument
With the topic of abortion, emotions and faulty assumptions frequently cloud clear thinking. Most arguments supporting abortion rights beg the question, assuming what the arguer is trying to prove--namely, that the unborn individual is not a person. So what is the real question? Is abortion unjustified homicide? Yes, if the fetus is a human person; no, if the fetus is not a human person. But what if "no one knows when life begins"? In this lecture, Dr. Francis Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, examines this issue in terms of both medical science and philosophy.
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Christian Conscience and the Issues of the Day
Since signing the Manhattan Declaration is a public act of Christian conscience, a clearer understanding of what Christian conscience is and is not is necessary for an intelligent engagement in the Manhattan Declaration. In seeking to grasp the essential shape of Christian conscience, His Excellency Allen H. Vigneron, Archbishop of Detroit, pursues the strategy of Pope John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis splendor, in which the martyr's conscience is identified as the paradigm for all of Christ's disciples.
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Marriage - Without Adjectives
This talk by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, President and Founder of the Ruth Institute, focuses on what marriage is and why it is needed by society; how same-sex marriage is not just an expansion of an existing institution to more people but rather creates a whole new definition of marriage; how the redefinition of marriage is also a redefinition of parenthood; how same-sex marriage threatens religious liberty; and what same-sex couples can do to solve their practical problems without redefining marriage.
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