Table of Contents
Biography and Foreword by the Rev. Dr. Richard Conrad, OP
Introduction: Hope and Patience in the Truth
Three Kinds of Published Work
Chapter One: The Background: Preliminary Remarks: What is a Real Beginning?; The Blessed Trinity and Beginnings; The Personal Nature of the Gift of Human Personhood; The human embryo in Scripture: golmi; The Mystery of Marriage and the Presence of Christ
Chapter Two: Two Theories: The First One: Form and Matter: Two Theories: Immediate Ensoulment or From the Fusion of Nuclei; The Fusion of the Nuclei and Form and Matter; The Contribution of the Documents: “Keys to Bioethics”; and The Latin and English Texts of Donum vitae, The Gift of Life; In View of This Discussion, There Have Arisen Three Objections to This Type of Delayed Animation
Chapter Three: Two Theories: The Second One: A New Way of Conceiving Conception: Literally: A First Instant of Ensoulment; The Human Embryonic Person; Let Us Now Consider Some Theological Reflections; There Is, However, One Further Type of Argument which Arises out of the Nature of the Catholic Church and Her Sacraments; ‘The Visible Rites by which the Sacraments are Celebrated Signify and Make Present the Graces Proper to each Sacrament’ (CCC: 1131); The Eucharist as the Mystery with which to Compare Human Conception
Conclusion: Why Does it Matter What the First Instant of Human Personhood Is?
Lest We Forget: The Passion of the Unborn