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God and human dignity
Although countless books have been devoted to the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., few, if any, have focused on King's appropriation of, and contribution to, the intellectual tradition of personalism. Emerging as a philosophical movement in the early 1900s, personalism is a type of philo...
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The practice of human development and dignity
Although deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this...
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Memoirs on pauperism and other writings
The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir, a letter fragment considering pauperism in Normandy, and the ‘‘Pauperism in America’’ index to the Penitentiary Report.Alexis de Tocqueville was one ...
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Theological hermeneutics and the book of numbers as christian scripture
Using the book of Numbers as an example, Briggs argues that the Christian practice of reading scripture requires engagement with broad theological concerns.
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The coming of the celts, ad 1860
The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860 examines nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925 to determine what it means to be Celtic.
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Making immigrants in modern argentina
In Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina, Julia Albarracín argues that modern Argentina's selection of immigrants lies at the intersection of state decision-making processes and various economic, cultural, and international factors. Immediately after independence, Argentina designed a national pr...
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You are gods
David Bentley Hart offers an intense and thorough reflection upon the issue of the supernatural in Christian theology and doctrine.In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentl...
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Liturgy and biblical interpretation
What happens to the Bible when it is used in worship? What does music, choreography, the stringing together of texts, and the architectural setting itself, do to our sense of what the Bible means—and how does that influence our reading of it outside of worship? In Liturgy and Biblical Interpretat...
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The case of galileo
The Case of Galileo presents the scientific, philosophical, and theological factors that impacted Galileo’s trial, all set within the historical progression of Galileo’s writing and personal interactions with his contemporaries.
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With all your mind
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to t...
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Versions of election
Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas t...
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Monk's tale
In Monk’s Tale: Way Stations on the Journey, Father Edward Malloy narrates his professional life from 1974 to his election as president of Notre Dame.
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Untangling twinning
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The f...
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Burdened agency
Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life.Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through Christian theology and ethics. In previous ce...
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Personalism
This volume, first published a year before Mounier’s death, is his final definition of personalism. It is an eloquent and lucid statement of a perspective in which “man’s supreme adventure is to fight injustice wherever it is found and whatever the consequences” (from the Foreword).
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The catholic church and democracy in chile and peru
Recent changes imposed by the Vatican may redefine the Chilean and Peruvian Church's involvement in politics and social issues. Fleet and Smith argue that the Vatican has been moving to restrict the Chilean and Peruvian Church's social and political activities. Fleet and Smith have gathered docum...
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The controversial thomas more
The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII.Thomas More is known for refusing the oath of succession and remaining silent about his reasons for doing so. His prison literature, however, tells a dif...
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The ethical demand
Knud Ejler Løgstrup’s The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in English translation. Originally published in 1956, it has again become the subject of widespread i...
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Leadership
Leadership, second edition—a completely up-to-date anthology of key writings by well-known contributors—meets the need for a textbook that encompasses the major theories in the field of leadership.
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Latinos in new york
Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a thi...
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Varieties of monastic experience in byzantium, 800-1453
Talbot surveys the forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire, highlighting distinctions for men and women and comparing Byzantine monasticism with its Western medieval counterpart.
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Culture of enlightening
Burson examines Yvon’s work in order to explore broader trends in the diverse ways eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society.
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Dante's "other works"
Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante’s “other works.”Rather than speak of Dante’s “minor works,” according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to the eighte...
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Sounding the word of god
Between 800 and 900 a new convention entered musical practice: by the end of the century the recording of musical sound using newly-invented music scripts had become standard, the meanings of those scripts familiar to many. In the history of European music this was a momentous transformation, off...
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Wisdom's journey
Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences.For many, Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into German has come to define the spirit of the Protestant Reformation. But th...
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Doubting thomas
Doubting Thomas presents a deep analysis of four key debates between Aquinas and his contemporaries, offering a fresh perspective on behalf of the saint’s major critics.While Thomas Aquinas remains by far the most influential philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages, many of his contemporari...
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Hans urs von balthasar and the critical appropriation of russian religious thought
Book offers the first systematic treatment and evaluation of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's complex relation to modern speculative religious philosophy.
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Translingual catholics
Translingual Catholics explores the life experiences and theological writings of twentieth-century Chinese Catholic intellectuals and their impact on global Catholic theology.Weaving together archival resources in Chinese, French, and English, Translingual Catholics examines the preconciliar theo...
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Medieval holy women and the desire for death
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.For medieval Christians, only death could offer complete union with God. For medieval women in particular, death was figured as a desi...
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April 1917
April 1917, Book 1, captures the division and helplessness of Russia’s first Revolutionary rulers, paving the way for the victory of the ruthless Bolsheviks later that year.One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic w...
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The price of the common good
The Price of the Common Good offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests.There is more at stake in market economies than self-interest or making money. Lying just below the surface, there are shared projects answering the deepest political q...
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Icons and the liturgy, east and west
Icons and the Liturgy, East and West offers a critical assessment of the status of liturgical arts in postmodern Catholicism and Orthodoxy and an analysis of the continuity with tradition in creatively engaging the creation of sacred art and icons.
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Mary's bodily assumption
In Mary’s Bodily Assumption, Matthew Levering presents a contemporary explanation and defense of the Catholic doctrine of Mary’s bodily Assumption.
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Ethics, politics, and natural law
A rigorous but accessible overview of the new natural law account of ethics and political philosophy.The foundational principles of ethics and politics are principles that guide us to respect and promote human flourishing. In Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law Melissa Moschella provides an accessi...
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Cardinal owen mccann
A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann.Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann’s personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907–1994), a pivotal yet o...
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Regret
“This book is a stimulating and, as far as I can see, original examination of regret . . . the overall argument of the book is that if regret is focused so much on remorse that it results in an over scrupulous and excessive examination of past mistakes then it can bring about no positive result; ...
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Treatise on the virtues
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the ...
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The history and culture of iran and central asia
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic a...
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Transforming work
Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor.
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Abandoned tracks
Abandoned Tracks examines the regional variation and the mythology of the Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
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Realizing the distinctive university
In Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture, Mark William Roche changes the terms of the debate about American higher education. A former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, Roche argues for the importance of an institution...
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Global 1968
Global 1968 is a unique study of the similarities and differences in the 1968 cultural revolutions in Europe and Latin America.The late 1960s was a time of revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Yet so much was in flux during these years that it is often difficult to make sense of the period...
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Reverence for the relations of life
A provocative look at Josiah Royce's relations with the ‘big three’ American pragmatists: Charles Pierce, William James, and John Dewey
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Dreams for lesotho
Aerni-Flessner studies the emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced development after colonialism in Africa.
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