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How our founding principles and a bitter pill undo the assimilation of us catholics g. Strangers in a strange land sometimes feels a bit academic and disjointedit is really a series of essays, and within each essay, sometimes it lacks adequate focus. Chaput s work, however, is far from a tale of defeat. He writes at length about the sea change in sexual ethics, from the. Strangers in a strange land had me archbishop chaput has a very good knack for packaging complex realities into ways that are easy to understand. Living the catholic faith in a postchristian world, 2017. Living the catholic faith in a postchristian world, comes at a strange moment in that struggle. Strangers in a strange land the archbishop of philadelphia delivers the 2014 erasmus lecture by charles j. And yet, there are many of us who feel exactly like the title of archbishop chaput s new book. Chaput, author of living the catholic faith and render unto caesar comes strangers in a strange land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of catholicism and christianity in the united states. Lewis, the human person is a kind of amphibiana creature made by god for both this world and the next, a fusion of spirit and flesh that gives the body special dignity.
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