Reimaging the Church in Troubled Times

Today, we are in new unchartered areas. We now possess the awesome power of having designer babies without sex and can rearrange DNA. We have invented useful, practical, versatile plastics that now lodge in fetal matter and human brains.

Science that gives us our miracles pumps out global pollution and the evisceration of, in the name of personal freedom, the communal glues of neighborhood, village, marriage, and faith. Artificial intelligence has gotten smarter than human intelligence. Experts are debating whether to attach moral rights to it. The big question concerning human beings today is precisely what makes us human?

The old Aristotelian and Thomistic categories of religion are not sufficient anymore. Just as we need a new political vision to deal with society, so for religion. We need a new apologetic that builds on the old but exceeds it with new vision and new tools. This book, an academic one, touches on areas that need a new look.

-- William J. Bausch