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  • Guns across America

    Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights

    by Robert Spitzer ...
    In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming. They have had great success in conflating unfettered gun ownership with the Founding Fathers, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Gun Control

    by Robert J. Spitzer ...
    Since its initial publication in 1995, this book has become the classic work on every important element of the tumultuous national gun debate in America. This new edition brings together the latest developments and research in gun politics, policy, law, history, and criminology to provide a comprehensive and accessible source widely used by scholars, journalists, and in classrooms. In this era of ... Read more

    Was $51.99 USD Now $45.99 USD

  • New Proofs for the Existence of God

    Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

    by Robert J. Spitzer ...
    With the incredible popularity of recent books championing agnosticism or atheism, many people might never know that such books almost completely ignore the considerable evidence for theism uncovered in both physics and philosophy over the past four decades. New Proofs for the Existence of God responds to these glaring omissions.From universal space-time asymmetry to cosmic coincidences to the ... Read more

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  • Science, Reason, and Faith

    Discovering the Bible

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ ...
    Built into our very nature is a desire to know about the world around us. The big questions of human existence are inescapable: Who am I? Why am I here, and where am I going? Why is there evil in the world? What is the meaning of life?This yearning for truth ultimately leads us to our Creator. God knows the longings of the human heart, and he reveals himself to us through creation, through ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Gun Dilemma

    How History Is Against Expanded Gun Rights

    by Robert J. Spitzer ...
    An informed and sophisticated look at the current debate between gun laws and gun rights in America. Contemporary gun controversies are deeply rooted in our history, yet much of that history is unknown, ignored, or distorted. This is all the more important because a new gun rights movement is pressing to expand the definition of gun rights well beyond the standard set by the Supreme Court in its ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Soul's Upward Yearning

    Clues to Our Transcendent Nature from Experience and Reason

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    Since the early twentieth century, scientific materialism has so undermined our belief in the human capacity for transcendence that many people find it difficult to believe in God and the human soul. The materialist perspective has not only cast its spell on the natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, and literature, it has also enthralled popular culture, which offers very little to encourage ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Christ Versus. Satan in Our Daily Lives

    The Cosmic Struggle Between Good and Evil

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    Spiritual writer, theologian, and philosopher Jesuit Fr. Robert Spitzer tackles the topic of recognizing and overcoming spiritual evil. His focus is the human heart. His goal: our moral and spiritual transformation, which leads to true peace and genuine happiness.The book is divided into two main parts: the realities of God's goodness and of spiritual evil, and recognizing and overcoming ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Escape From Evil's Darkness

    The Light of Christ in the Church, Spiritual Conversion, and Moral Conversion

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    In this second volume of the Called Out of Darkness trilogy, Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., draws together some of the best advice given by Catholic spiritual masters across the ages and brings it into harmony with modern scientific research, offering practical ways to live out the gospel in our busy days. It is a roadmap to a deeper relationship with the Lord and to authentic transformation through ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ten Universal Principles

    A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    How do we make sense of life? How should we treat others? How should we reasonably be expected to be treated by others? When human life is at stake, are there reasonable principles we can rely on to guide our actions? How should our laws be framed to protect human life? What kind of society should be built?Many people rely on their religious beliefs to answer these questions. But not everyone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gun Law History

    How Three-Hundred Years of Weapons Laws Built the Nation

    by Robert J. Spitzer ...
    Gun Law History accomplishes two important purposes. First, it brings together the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands. No work has presented as comprehensive, coherent, and wide-ranging an account of historic American weapons laws from the 1600s through the start of the twentieth century as this one. In the process, it upends many standard assumptions about ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Finding True Happiness

    Satisfying Our Restless Hearts

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    One of the hottest topics in contemporary culture is happiness-so much so that the United Nations declared an International Happiness Day in response to the immense popularity of Pharrell Williamsಙ song ಜHappyಝ. The explanation for this current fixation seems to lie in the contrary phenomenon-unhappiness. Despite the fact that we have tremendous access to every imaginable form of entertainment, we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Moral Wisdom of the Catholic Church

    A Defense of Her Controversial Moral Teachings

    by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J ...
    Series series Called out of Darkness: Contending with Evil through the Church, Virtue, and Prayer
    Jesus said, "The truth will set you free." Father Spitzer lays bare the theological and philosophical roots of Catholic morality, and also uses secular statistical studies to demonstrate that these teachings, even from a scientific standpoint, help human beings to flourish.Gathering data from universities, general psychiatry, medical institutes, and general survey organizations such as Pew ... Read more

    $17.99 USD