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The new absolutes / William D. Watkins.
- Title
- The new absolutes / William D. Watkins.
- Author
- Watkins, William D.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers, c1996.
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Details
- Description
- 319 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Argues that professed attitudes of tolerance and relativism are actually a new form of absolutism that is eroding American society by forcing people to accept beliefs that are opposed to traditional values, and offers examples from the areas of religion, marriage, medical ethics, sexual freedom, and others.
- Subject
- Watkins, William D
- 1900-1999
- Liberalism > Moral and ethical aspects
- Political correctness > United States
- Social ethics > United States
- Moral conditions
- Ethical absolutism
- Toleration > Moral and ethical aspects
- Civilization, Modern > 20th century
- Multiculturalism > United States
- Christianity and justice > United States
- Christianity and culture
- Apologetics
- Skepticism
- Relativity
- United States > Church history > 20th century
- Note
- "How they are being imposed on us, how they are eroding our moral landscape"--Dust jacket cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-316) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "God" in Fresno -- The rule of relativism -- The betrayal of behavior -- Freedom from religion -- Death, what a beautiful choice -- Do, for now -- Family is who you come home to -- Love the one you're with -- Dial deviant for normal -- I am woman, hear me roar -- Race colors everything -- History in the remaking -- The politically correct life -- When worlds collide -- A plea for intolerance.
- ISBN
- 1556617216 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^^96045783^
- OCLC
- 35646577
- SCSB-10465946
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library