The Best of Kresta in the Afternoon
4:00 – What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
Until recently, no society had seen marriage as anything
other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. Prof. Robert George identifies and defends the reasons for this historic
consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable,
and contrary to the common good. He is here to offer a devastating critique of
the idea that equality requires redefining marriage.
5:00 – History of the
Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium
The
Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning
with the first Christians and continuing in our present day, the Church has
been planted in every nation on earth. The Catholic Church claims Jesus Christ
himself as her founder, and in spite of heresy from within and hostility from
without, she remains in the twenty-first century the steadfast guardian of
belief in his life, death, and resurrection. The teachings and redemptive works
of Jesus as told in the Gospels are expressed by the Church in a coherent and
consistent body of doctrine, the likes of which cannot be found in any other
Christian body. The history of the Catholic Church is long, complicated, and
fascinating, and historian James
Hitchcock is here to tell it.
I would enjoy hearing more from Prof. George on all this, but to date he sounds too legalistic and unromantic to be persuasive on the meaning of marriage.
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