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Gospel of Life: Evangelium Vitae
[Buy it!] | Pope John Paul II | USD 3.99
(Tue Jun 4 13:12:10 2024) | Abebooks | B. Rossi, Bindlestiff Books | ISBN10: 0812926714, ISBN13: 9780812926712, [publisher: Times Books] Softcover Trade paperback. (ISBN 0-8129-2671-4) Some underlining and marginalia, good copy, good wrappers. The Encyclical Letter on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty in today's world. Issued in the seventeenth year of his papacy in March 1995, "The Gospel of Life" is one of the most important messages yet delivered by His Holiness John Paul II. "The Gospel of Life" contains the complete text of the Pontiff's encyclical letter on the sanctity of life in the modern world. It gives the Vatican's authoritative position regarding abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, ecology, and biological engineering. "The Gospel of Life" grapples with what the Pope calls the dramatic struggle now taking place at the close of the twentieth century between the "culture pf life " and the "culture of death." The values of Christianity, the Pope argues, are unalterably opposed to the modern secular culture of choice. Rooting his many arguments in the original precepts of the Gospel, Pope John Paul I urges us to honor the sacred value and inviolability of human life, and refuse forms of permissiveness that trample human rights, and which, if left unopposed, would destroy values that are fundamental not only for the lives of individuals and families, but for society itself. Religion. *
[Altoona, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995] |
