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Marriage & Christian Morals
Thomas D’Andrea defends the Catholic view of the philosophy of marriage.
It was with some incredulity that I read recently, in a past issue of Philosophy Now (Autumn ’95), Bob Sharpe’s ‘Marriage: How the Churches Corrupt’. This article shows an ignorance on the part of a British philosophy professor of a nearly two millennia-old set of religious-cumphilosophical teachings that is quite frankly shocking – all the more shocking in that our professor has taken the trouble to make his ignorance public in the hopes of enlightening the readership of Philosophy Now. While perfectly willing to grant that the best of intentions lie behind Prof. Sharpe’s efforts, I find his, a professional academic’s, publicised ignorance in these matters morally blameworthy (I am a bit more hesitant to throw around the term ‘evil’ than Sharpe seems to be): blameworthy to the point that I think he owes his readers a retraction, and that he owes his intelligent Christian, especially Roman Catholic, readers whom he has cavalierly and unqualifiedly branded ‘evil’, an apology. I write this response not with polemical intent, but in the same desire to get at the truth of the matter that I believe motivates Sharpe.
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