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No bridges blown
A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War IIWhen William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer had cinematic visions of blood-and-guts heroics, of leading the French Maquis resistance forces in da...
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Jean bethke elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the first attempt to evaluate Elshtain’s entire published body of work and to give shape to a wide-ranging scholarly career.
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The difference nothing makes
This book explores the doctrinal, social, and spiritual significance of a central yet insufficiently understood tenet in Christian theology: creation “from nothing.”In this original study, Brian D. Robinette offers an extended meditation on the idea of creation out of nothing as it applies not on...
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Five biblical portraits
Nobel Peace Prize–winner Elie Wiesel brings ancient religious leaders to literary life, framing his commentary with pressing and enduring questions as a survivor and witness to the Holocaust.Five Biblical Portraits represents an old-new approach to Jewish textual commentary. This sequel to Elie W...
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Between prison and freedom
This thrilling memoir documents the early life of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek as he and other dissidents fearlessly fought against the Soviet Union.Between Prison and Freedom chronicles Alexander Podrabinek’s deeply personal recollections of his early life fe...
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Shari´a, citizenship, and identity in aceh
Shari`a, Citizenship, and identity in Aceh presents both an ethnographic and a sociohistorical account of identity making among both the Muslim majority population and different minority groups in Aceh, Indonesia.Diverging from previous studies on majority-minority group relations in a predominan...
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Chosen among women
Historical analysis combines with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi`ite Islam.
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Colin powell
This biography of Colin Powell explores his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of American military and political power.
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Conservatism in a divided america
Although conservatives have for years complained of identity politics on the left, recent years have seen an increase in right-wing identity politics. This has been most pronounced in the rise of the so-called Alt-Right, a recent iteration of the American white nationalist movement. What accounts...
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Furious dusk
Furious Dusk is a collection of poetry that traces a son’s efforts to fulfill his father’s expectations and reflect on what it means to be a man.
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Aquinas on being and essence
In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On Being and Essence. He foregrounds the meaning of the important distinction between first and second intentions, the differing uses of the ter...
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A first glance at st. thomas aquinas
Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this informally discursive introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny shows how this basic assumption contrasts with dominan...
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The boys of st. columb's
The Boys of St. Columb's chronicles the schooldays of eight illustrious alumni of St. Columb's College in Derry, Northern Ireland, and the political consequences of their education. A companion to a BBC/RTÉ documentary film, The Boys of St. Columb’s (2010), this book traces the first generation o...
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Married priests in the catholic church
These essays offer a historically rigorous dismantling of Western claims about the superiority of celibate priests.Although celibacy is often seen as a distinctive feature of the Catholic priesthood, both Catholic and Orthodox Churches in fact have rich and diverse traditions of married priests. ...
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Godsends
Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology.For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformat...
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The eucharistic form of god
This study presents Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Eucharist and shows its significance for contemporary sacramental theology.Anyone who seeks to offer a systematic account of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Eucharist and the liturgy is confronted with at least two obstacles. F...
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Evil and exile
A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Michaël de Saint Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for...
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Thick and thin
Thick and Thin frames Michael Walzer’s ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past three decades.
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The philosophy of drama
The Philosophy of Drama provides an in-depth and erudite exploration of human existence as a dramatic existence, interpreted in terms of encounter, dialogue, reciprocity, erring, temptation, condemnation, and justification.In this magnum opus, Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner offers a philosop...
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The whole mystery of christ
A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessor’s singular theological vision through the prism of Christ’s cosmic and historical Incarnation.Jordan Daniel Wood changes the trajectory of patristic scholarship with this comprehensive historical and systematic study of one of the most creative and...
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Long road from quito
The incredible story of David Gaus, who has dedicated his life to bringing modern health care and medicine to rural communities in Ecuador.
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Sin
This book brings clarification to our understanding of the nature of sin and will be of interest to nonphilosophers as well as philosophers.Most of the scholarly literature on sin has focused on theological issues, making book-length philosophical treatments of the topic hard to find. Sin, the ne...
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Dante's "vita nova"
This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante’s Vita nova, exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text.This groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh way of reading Dante’s Vita n...
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The priority of the person
In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that “person” is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. The present vo...
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Magnificent errors
Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope.In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of refe...
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Truthfulness and tragedy
In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate, or should operate, to form and direct lives. In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christia...
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Queen of heaven
Grindlay's study of the Virgin Mary affords an insight into England's religious pluralism and how images of Mary became sources of resistance and controversy during the Reformation.
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The saint's life and the senses of scripture
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies.Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, i...
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The inheritance of exile
“This story collection paints a portrait of four Arab-American women, the daughters of Palestinian immigrants living in South Philadelphia. Each woman struggles to reconcile her ethnic identity with her American one.” —Wellesley Townsman
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Complicity and moral accountability
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each k...
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Fifty years with father hesburgh
Schmuhl provides a portrait of the life and career of Father Hesburgh.
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The other pascals
The Other Pascals explores the overlooked philosophical impact of the Pascal women on education, feminism, and theology.
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Summa contra gentiles
Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God's freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man.The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas ha...
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Conscience
Conscience offers a detailed historical survey of the concept of conscience from ancient times, through the Middle Ages, and up to more modern philosophers.
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On being free
With extraordinary elegance and philosophic power, Frithjof Bergmann presents a genuine rethinking of freedom. By changing the focus from outside to inside the person, Bergmann shows how freedom can be a reality in self-growth, parenting, education, and in shaping a society that stimulates rather...
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A history of medieval philosophy
In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought from the ancient world to the late medieval period. A History of Medieval Philosophy is an invaluable general introduction that also includes longer t...
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Beyond high courts
Beyond High Courts provides a theoretically and conceptually rich analysis of legal systems in Latin America and reveals their impact on democracy and the rule of law.
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Boccaccio’s corpus
Boccaccio's writing about women and sexuality, in contrast to much of medieval literature, highlights the symbolic utility of erotic literatures to carry meaning and promote cultures associated with women.
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A community of character
Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century.Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly...
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Being before god
Being before God offers a thorough account of Cornelio Fabro’s Thomistic reading of Søren Kierkegaard’s theology, speaking both to systematic theology and Kierkegaard studies.Italian Stigmatine priest and Thomist philosopher Cornelio Fabro is well known for his work on the metaphysics of Thomas A...
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Eucharist
Eucharist is a detailed history of the Christian Eucharistic formularies. Bouyer gives a thorough analysis of the Jewish meal prayers, the berakoth, to which he traces the origins of the eucharistic rite, and ends with the recent addition of new eucharistic prayers to the Roman rite. He also incl...
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The preferential option for the poor beyond theology
The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore how to practice a commitment to the preferential option for the poor.
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Catalogue of irish manuscripts in houghton library, harvard university
The first full account of North America’s largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts.Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage o...
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Setting aside all authority
Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific, not religious, arguments against the Copernican heliocentric system.
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