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Human nature and the freedom of public religious expression
Drawing on current research in science and religion, distinguished bioethicist Stephen G. Post provocatively argues that human beings are, by nature, inclined toward a presence in the universe that is higher than their own. In consequence, the institutions of everyday life, such as schools, the w...
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Bitter knowledge
Bitter Knowledge examines the Socratic method in three fundamental Platonic dialogues, Protagoras, Meno, and Theaetetus, contending that the method is really a cyclical one of disillusionment and renewal.
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The chicano experience
This revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience has captivated readers wit...
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The natural rights republic
In The Natural Rights Republic, renowned political theorist Michael P. Zuckert examines the natural rights philosophy as expressed in sources like the Declaration of Independence and aims to counter contemporary confusion by offering an insightful study of the concept that dominated the mindset o...
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The goddess natura in medieval literature
The concept of the goddess Natura–one of the most significant allegorical figures of medieval Latin and vernacular poetry–drew upon many strands of classical and Christian thought, from Plato’s Timaeus to Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy. In what is perhaps the best history of the goddess Nat...
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A rich bioethics
In this book Adam Briggle provides a sympathetic account of the President’s Council on Bioethics led by Dr. Leon Kass.
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy
Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy contains essays that address fundamental philosophical problems in the spirit of traditional metaphysics but updated with modern concerns.
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Conflicts of devotion
This book examines the role poetry played in England after religious reformation and shows that the liturgical character of poetry is essential to comprehending the shifts in English spiritual attitudes and practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Nazis in skokie
In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazi...
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Who are my people?
Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent that is often riddled with violence. The driving assumption behind the ...
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Color
A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity.
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Life cycles in jewish and christian worship
More than a series of rites of passage through the landmarks of growing up and growing old, Jewish and Christian life-cycle rituals give the members of each religious tradition theological and ritualized definitions of what a life should be. In this volume, the fourth in the acclaimed series Two ...
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Authentic witnesses
The central theme in any history of texts and books must be that of change and renewal: Parchment that is written on, in one set of circumstances in late antiquity, may in the Early Middle Ages be scraped clean and written on again, leaving evidence of a civilization in which blank parchment is m...
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The way
This is the first sustained study of Russian émigré theologians and other intellectuals in Paris who were associated with The Way.
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Adoration and annihilation
John J. Conley, S.J., brings to life, in amazing technicolor, the complex personalities of the long-overlooked and complicated Port-Royal Arnaud women philosophers.
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Beyond the inquisition
Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Caravale offers a fresh perspective on Italian religious history and the Counter-Reformation during the Renaissance.
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The unstoppable irish
Milner uses music to reveal the history and culture of Irish immigrants in New York, providing fresh insights into their beliefs and struggles.
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Victorian reformations
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein studies the Protestant Reformation as it is represented and continually rewritten in 19th-century and Victorian fiction.
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Why choose the liberal arts?
Roche argues for a strong liberal arts education through the value of learning, the cultivation of intellectual virtues, and the formation of character gained from liberal arts.
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(un)rule of law and the underprivileged in latin america
This thorough discussion of the idea of "democracies without citizenship" in Latin America considers overcoming political violence and discrimination and analyzes various avenues to institutional judicial reform. The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America, as the fourth part of ...
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The sword of the lord
The Sword of the Lord explores the development of the military chaplaincy across history and geography and shows the legacy of these devoted men.From the first to the twenty-first century, from Europe to North America, the military chaplaincy has existed in a recognizable form for more than 1,600...
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Lay sanctity, medieval and modern
Inspired by Vatican II, which attributed a special apostolate to the laity and affirmed their calling to holiness, this volume of original essays focuses on the shifting points of intersection between changing historical definitions of laity and sanctity. Ann W. Astell and ten other scholars exam...
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Rivalrous masculinities
This book represents an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to medieval masculinity, discussing gender studies, femininity, class, religion, and location.
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The embodied word
The Embodied Word expands on the topic of female spirituality to encompass broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization.
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Making difference in medieval and early modern iberia
A perspective on a medieval Iberia that sustained a fluid concept of identity and an acceptance of difference that extended even to the level of the deformed monstrous
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Abroad for her country
Jean M. Wilkowski shares the story of her extraordinary career in the U.S. Foreign Service during the last half of the twentieth century.
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Logic and philosophy
The dual purpose of this volume—to provide a distinctively philosophical introduction to logic, as well as a logic-oriented approach to philosophy—makes this book a unique and worthwhile primary text for logic and/or philosophy courses. Logic and Philosophy covers a variety of elementary formal a...
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Religious politics in latin america, pentecostal vs. catholic
Brian H. Smith's book surveys recent religious and political developments in Latin American Christianity, especially in the rapidly growing Pentecostal churches and in Catholicism. He finds that despite efforts by the Vatican to make the Latin American Church less involved in politics (in the wak...
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The portrait of beatrice
The Portrait of Beatrice examines how Dante Alighieri and D. G. Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating imaginary portraits.
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Knowing religiously
Focusing on the contemporary experience of cultural and religious pluralism, the authors in this volume work toward a reconception of the basic concepts in philosophy of religion—the idea of God and the religious ways of knowing that idea—as historically dynamic.Eliot Deutsch argues that aestheti...
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John lydgate
A range of essays on Lydgate and his work which challenge preconceived notions of the quality and nature of Lydgate's writing
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Catholics, slaveholders, and the dilemma of american evangelicalism, 1835-1860
W. Jason Wallace examines three antebellum groups and argues that the divisions among them stemmed from disagreements over the role that religious convictions played in a free society.
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Paisanos
Paisanos revisits the forgotten role of the Irish in the fight for South American independence, reanimating the ideals that built the New World and sowed the seeds of Ireland's revolutions to follow.
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Recovering nature
The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques Maritain Center, former director of the Medieval Institute, and author of numerous works in philos...
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Splinters are children of wood
The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, pose an increasingly desperate question about what it means to be a girl, the ways girls are shaped by the world, as well as the role myth play...
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The key to the brescia casket
The elusive rationale for the Brescia Casket, an ivory reliquary carved in northern Italy ca. 390, has long tantalized scholars. In The Key to the Brescia Casket, Dr. Catherine Brown Tkacz reveals that the secret to its meaning lies in exegetical typology-the interpretation of Old Testament peopl...
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Needs of the heart
Serbin examines the transformational role played by clergymen and seminarians in the Brazilian Church of the mid-nineteenth century as they left seminaries to establish greater contact with the people. This would form part of the early liberation theology movement.
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Laureates and heretics
Archambeau examines the influence of poet Yvor Winters ono his final generation of students at Stanford, dividing them into laureates and heretics based on their reception of Winters' poetics.
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Twilight of the american century
Bacevich examines the U.S. response to September 11th and how it has radically affected the way Americans see themselves and their nation’s place in the world.
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