Books
What’s Inside?
Foreword – Cardinal Thomas Collins
Acknowledgments – Matthew Nelson
Introduction – Matthew Nelson
PART I – NEW AUDIENCES
1 – Nones Are Not “Nothings” – Stephen Bullivant
2 – Awakening the Indifferent – Bobby Angel
3 – Why Catholics Fall Away: A Priest’s Perspective – Fr. Blake Britton
4 – The Reason and the Remedy: Bringing the Lapsed Christian Home
– Tod Worner
5 – Moral Relativism: Arguments For and Against – Francis J. Beckwith
6 – Countering Scientific Materialism – Stephen Barr
PART II – NEW APPROACHES
7 – Digital Apologetics: Defending the Faith Online – Brandon Vogt
8 – New Epiphanies of Beauty – Michael Stevens
9 – Sowing “Seeds of the Word” – Andrew Petiprin
10 – The Heart of Affirmative Orthodoxy – John L. Allen Jr.
11 – Truth, Meaning, and the Christian Imagination – Holly Ordway
PART III – NEW MODELS
12 – Socrates – Trent Horn
13 – St. Augustine – Matthew Levering
14 – St.Thomas Aquinas – John DeRosa
15 – Blaise Pascal – Peter Kreeft
16 – G.K. Chesterton – Dale Ahlquist
17 – C.S. Lewis – Fr. Michael Ward
18 – Flannery O’Connor – Matthew Becklo
19 – René Girard – Grant Kaplan
20 – Joseph Ratzinger – Richard DeClue
PART IV – NEW ISSUES
Science and Faith
21 – Theology and Science: How and Why – Christopher Baglow
22 – Defending a Historical Adam and Eve in an Evolving Creation
– Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP
23 – Free Will and Its Challenges from Neuroscience – Daniel De Haan
24 – The Quantum Revolution and the Reconciliation of Science and Humanism – Robert C. Koons
25 – Creation and the Cosmos – Jonathan Lunine
26 – Artificial Intelligence: Religion of Technology – Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP
Psychology and Anthropology
27 – Psychology and Religion – Christopher Kaczor
28 – Happiness and the Meaning of Life – Jennifer Frey
29 – Matters of Life and Death – Stephanie Gray Connors
30 – Anthropological Fallacies – Ryan T. Anderson
31 – The “Fourth Age” of Human Communications – Jimmy Akin
Theology and Philosophy
32 – The Threefold Way – Fr. James Dominic Brent, OP
33 – New Challenges to Natural Theology – Edward Feser
34 – Doubt and Certainty – Tyler Dalton McNabb
35 – The Existence of the Immortal Soul – Turner C. Nevitt
36 – Dark Passages of the Bible – Matthew J. Ramage
37 – Resurrection and the Future – David Baird
38 – Ecumenical Apologetics – Archbishop Donald Bolen
Atheism and Culture
39 – The Mirror of Evil – Eleonore Stump
40 – The Argument from Divine Hiddenness – Fr. Gregory Pine, OP
41 – Wokeness and Social Justice – Matthew R. Petrusek
Afterword – Bishop Robert Barron
Recommended Resources
Contributors
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
What difference does it make?
Catholic Apologist Matt Nelson says religious indifference is the great spiritual sickness of our age—a product of the relativism that dominates modern culture. The consequences of this mentality are all around us: a neglect of truth, apathy towards the important questions in the universe, and—since we’re designed to be fulfilled by God, not idle pleasures—widespread unhappiness.
In Just Whatever, Matt takes down the building blocks of religious indifference one by one. He looks at the three different kinds you tend to encounter in your friends and family members—and maybe in yourself!—to see where they come from and why they’re seductive.
In their place he offers a compelling vision of a world in which it matters what you believe, who you worship, and where authentic truth and authority reside. And he helps you present that vision to others with clarity and love.
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