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A
Love for Life
by Dennis Di Mauro
Dennis
DiMauro is a board member of the National Pro-Life Religious
Council (NPRC), headed by Fr. Frank Pavone. The NPRC educates
the public on the historic, Biblical Christian teaching on the
sanctity of life. A Love for Life is the result of the NPRC's
decision to update Christians about the historic and current
positions of various denominations on abortion.
The
following review comes from ChristianBookReviews.net:
The recent pronouncements of such political figures as House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator (now Vice-President-Elect)
Joseph Biden on theological matters concerning abortion have
focused attention on the historic claims of the Church
concerning whether the “termination of a pregnancy” is
inherently sinful. One might wonder why those of the political
elite would care about theological history but Pelosi and
Biden, both Catholic, were at pains to defend themselves
against charges of being “bad Catholics” in an election year.
In view of suggestions by many Catholic bishops that
supporting abortion rights was a communion-breaking offense,
both attempted to present the history of Catholicism as much
more nuanced on the issue.
Of course, no one has ever
confused either with an expert on Church history. Indeed,
their claims are totally absurd. But it is one thing to state
their absurdity and another to demonstrate it. Dennis DiMauro
has ably done the latter in A Love for Life as he examines the
history of the Church regarding its view on the abortion
issue. By the end of the book, he has convincingly demolished
the claims of those whose wishful thinking would allow them to
promote abortion as an issue where the Church has been
historically divided.
Beginning with the most ancient
sources, DiMauro mines both Scripture and Christian tradition
to bring together all the elements of a view on life that
challenged the “culture of death” existing in the pagan Roman
Empire and triumphed over it. The author points out how the
pro-life position was the consistent Christian view throughout
the patristic, medieval, and Reformation periods among all
Christian traditions and only weakened in recent times as some
within the Church have forsaken the historic morality of
Christendom for one more amenable to the newly emerging
“culture of death” of our own times.
The author also
points out that the division among Christians on this issue is
much overplayed. Most of the “pro-choice” support is within
the rapidly disappearing “mainline” churches of the West. It
is elsewhere that Christendom is on the rise and there the
pro-life position is dominant. Given the mainline churches
retreat on a whole host of issues, it can be effectively
argued that they merely represent the lapsed faith of dying
churches.
It might be helpful if every pro-choice
politician read A Love for Life before commenting on the
“diversity of opinions” within Christianity on the abortion
issue. It will probably not change their minds – their views
are clearly formed without any Christian source – but it might
give them pause before they make clearly insupportable claims.
Whatever may be their reasons for supporting abortion, they
cannot blame it on Christ.
Paperback: 178 pages
Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Publishers (June 2008)
ISBN-10: 1556358288; ISBN-13:
978-1556358289
A Love for Life is available for
purchase from Amazon.com. For more information, click on the
following link:
www.amazon.com/dp/1556358288
Holy Abortion?
Michael J. Gorman and Ann Loar Brooks
The National Pro-life Religious Council has commissioned a
study on the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a
group which says abortion and Christianity are compatible. The
results of the study comprise a book called "Holy
Abortion?" This book makes clear that what RCRC says is
quite different from the position that its member groups take
individually -- and quite different from what Christianity
itself has always said. Click
here to read excerpts from the book. To read the full
text, click here.
Below you may listen to the audio book in MP3 format:
Holy Abortion:
Forward
Holy Abortion:
Chapter 1
Holy Abortion: Chapter 2 - [Part
1] -- [Part
2]
Holy Abortion:
Chapter 3
Holy Abortion:
Chapter 4
Holy Abortion:
Chapter 5
Holy Abortion:
Afterward
Thinking Theologically about Abortion
Edited by Paul T. Stallsworth
In 1998, the National Pro-life Religious Council held an
ecumenical conference for pastors on the topic "Building
a Ministry for Life." This book contains the texts of
four of the presentations made that day.
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The Right Choice
Edited by Paul T. Stallsworth
This collection of sermons and talks brings together an
outstanding array of advocates for the pro-life position from
many denominations. It will help pastors who want to preach
about abortion bur don't know how to begin. The editor and a
number of the contributors belong to the National Pro-life
Religious Council.
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