David M McCarthy – författare

Saving the World and Healing the Soul treats the heroic and redemptive trials of Jason Bourne, Bruce Wayne, Bella Swan, and Katniss Everdeen. The Bourne films, Christopher Nolan''s Batman trilogy, the Twilight saga, and the Hunger Games series offer us stories to live into, to make connection between our personal loves and trials and a good order of the world.

McCarthy is a masterful writer with an astute eye for the encapsulating anecdotes of our everyday lives. Digging in the garden of consumerist America, his spade roots out many economic and romantic assumptions, revealing the shallow but tenacious grip that many of those 'weeds' have on our lives. McCarthy invites us to cultivate a garden bearing real fruit, a fruit we often do not even realize we want, but when tasted, draws us on. --John Berkman, The Catholic University of AmericaWith style, warmth, and humor, David Matzko McCarthy challenges us to bring the gospel into our homes. His stories of spouse, children, neighbors, and friends help us remember that Christians can rise above personal foibles and social pressures to enjoy surprising generosity, love, and grace. --Lisa Cahill, Boston CollegeHow can we resist the empire's demand for our allegiance? This remains a fundamental question for Christian discipleship, and in 'The Good Life', McCarthy poses it afresh. But now the empire is not Rome but the market, and the arena of challenge is not the coliseum but Wal-Mart. He offers challenging wisdom to those of us in minivans who are trying to discern what God's disruptive grace means for our friendships, our neighborhoods, and our consumer habits. --James K. A. Smith, Calvin CollegeA splendid theological analysis of everyday life for people who live ordinary, middle-class realities. McCarthy illumines everyday life with beautiful interpretations of scripture and the creed. He is clearly the best theologian today writing on the vocation of parenting and neighborly existence. --D. Stephen Long, Garrett-Evangelical Theological SeminaryDon't let the charm of his style or his mastery or the telling detail mislead you. McCarthy's 'The Good Life' is both a sustained critique of the consumerism that enslaves and a profound account of how God's graciousness can set us free. This is theology at its best. A 'how to' book about something that matters. --Elizabeth Newman, Baptist Theological Seminary at RichmondA wonderful book. Rooted in Scripture, informed by the Christian tradition, perceptive in its analysis of contemporary American culture, 'The Good Life' is full of practical wisdom for middle-class Christians seeking to live more faithfully in their relationships to people, places, and things. Take up and read!--Steve Bouma-Prediger, Hope College'The Good Life' provides middle-class Christians a rich resource for theological reflections. McCarthy writes like a pastor and has a gift for making resistance to mainstream American culture seem both necessary and possible. --Julie Hanlon Rubio, author of A Christian Theology of Marriage and Family

LoveVolume 1, Number 2, June 2012Edited by David Matzko McCarthy and Joshua P. HochschildLove: A Thomistic AnalysisDiane Fritz CatesMovements of Love: A Thomistic Perspective on Eros and AgapeWilliam C. Mattison IIILove and Poverty: Dorothy Day's Twofold DiakoniaMargaret R. PfeilWhat's Love Got to Do With It?Situating a Theological Virtue in the Practice of MedicineBrian E. VolckAdoption and the Goods of BirthHolly Taylor CoolmanNatural Law and the Language of LoveCharles Pinchas and David Matzko McCarthyReview Essay: Love and Recent Developments in Moral TheologyBernard V. Brady

TECHNOLOGYVolume 4, Number 1, June 2015Edited by James F. Caccamo and David M. McCarthyNatural Law in a Digital AgeNadia DelicataFaith in the Church of FacebookMatthew John Paul TanProgress and Progressio: Technology, Self-betterment, and Integral Human DevelopmentJoseph G. WolyniakContaining a "e;Pandora's"e; Box:The Importance of Labor Unions in the Digital AgePatrick FlanaganWe Do Not Know How to Love: Observations on Theology, Technology, and DisabilityJana M. BennettUnmanned: Autonomous Drones as a Problem of Theological AnthropologyKara N. SladeLearning With Digital Technologies:Privileging Persons Over MachinesMary E. HessWhat's in a Tech? Factors in Evaluating the Morality of Our Information and Communication PracticesJames F. Caccamo

Love, Redemption, Vocation, and the ChurchVolume 4, Number 2, June 2015Edited by David M. McCarthyRoman Catholic Teaching on International Debt: Toward a New Methodology for Catholic Social Ethics and Moral TheologyM. Therese LysaughtNarrative, Social Identity and Practical Reason: On Charles Taylor and Moral TheologyMark RyanHobbes Contra BellarmineMatthew RoseGrace Is the Emotion of the Love of GodEdward Collins VacekNo Woe to You Lawyers: A Virtue Ethics Approach To Happiness Within the Legal ProfessionJohn J. FitzgeraldDignity and the Body: Reclaiming What Autonomy IgnoresJoel J. Shuman and Brian VolckMore Than Self-Gift and Sex: The Role of Receptivity in Catholic Marital EthicsRobert RyanReview Essay on Catholic Higher Education: After Ex corde EcclesiaeJason King