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Genesis Has the Answer to So Many of Our Present Cultural Missteps

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Author interview with theologian Monica Migliorino Miller, who says that ‘the primary crisis of our culture right now is a denial of natural law.’

St. Thomas Aquinas (echoing Aristotle) in De Ente et Essentia famously said, “a little error in the beginning leads to a great one in the end.” When considering the immensely important topic of theological anthropology, Aquinas’ words ring even truer today. Our present culture is rife with dangerous ideological anthropologies that seek to distort and deny the reality of the human person. To destabilize a Judeo-Christian anthropology is to undercut the foundation of human dignity and leads to the slippery slope of dehumanization.

Into this dangerous breech steps Monica Migliorino Miller and her new book, In the Beginning: Crucial Lessons for Our World from the First Three Chapters of Genesis. Miller, a theologian and well-known pro-life leader, sees in Genesis the answer to so many of our present anthropological missteps.

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