Could you recommend books/websites for arguing following subjects?

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For arguing against a secular/atheist, so how these issues are Biblical is irrelevant. Only philosophical and statistical arguments would work.

**Objective morality **(as opposed to moral relativism)
Euthanasia
Husband’s headship (headship of the family versus feminism)
Suicide
Artificial contraceptions
LGBT unions (please no ultraconservative bigotry or reversion therapy)
Just War
Political correctness
 
I’d recommend some of Lisa Sowle Cahill’s books. She is a professor of Theological Ethics at Boston College. Three of her books in particular might be of particular interest.

Theological Bioethics
Love Your Enemies
Family

If you really want to study any of the subjects in deep detail, you would generally want to balance these books out. For example, William May’s Bioethics book. But Cahill’s presentation is particularly well suited for explaining Catholic/Christian perspective to a secular audience.
 
50 Questions on the Natural Law, What It Is And Why We Need It, by Charles Rice
 
SoCalRC said:
I’d recommend some of Lisa Sowle Cahill’s books. She is a professor of Theological Ethics at Boston College. Three of her books in particular might be of particular interest.

Theological Bioethics
Love Your Enemies
Family

If you really want to study any of the subjects in deep detail, you would generally want to balance these books out. For example, William May’s Bioethics book. But Cahill’s presentation is particularly well suited for explaining Catholic/Christian perspective to a secular audience.
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I took a course in ethics taught by Cahill some years ago. Her teachings did not seem to me to be in line with Church teaching. I would not trust her judgment as a theologian.
 
Ron_Conte said:
I took a course in ethics taught by Cahill some years ago. Her teachings did not seem to me to be in line with Church teaching. I would not trust her judgment as a theologian.
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FWIW, it was the Dean of Academics at a seminary who first introduced a friend and I to her work. Her writings and research are also often cited in other Catholic Theologian’s work.

She does have her own take on “Natural Law”, but lays a very sound foundation for her view from Thomistic tradition. And she has always utterly rejected the moral relativism of some feminists.

As I said, on any subject one would do well to read a range of theological thought in addition to closely studying Church documents for themselves. But Cahill presents her theology from the perspective of the common good of the human person. This makes it more explainable to secular listeners, for whom, ‘God says so…’ does not carry much weight.
 
www.questia.com cause the books that I have seen so far have been based on a rationality even when based within a theistic framework.

I just joined it last week and it seems good so far.

alternatively.

www.newadvent.org.
www.vatican.va

are ALWAYS good! especially newadvent cause the whole of the summa is there and ya can search it so much easier than a paper copy!
 
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