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For the joy set before us
Age-old debates over self-love and self-denial continue in the Christian community. Many regard self-love as incompatible with the self-sacrifice of Christ. Others, especially feminists and liberation theologians, contest the notion that self-sacrifice is the test of authentic Christian love. The...
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Community and alienation
Douglas Sturm, a major ethical thinker, here presents ten intriguing essays that lay the groundwork for a communitarian political theory. Drawing on the work of Alfred North Whitehead and Bernard E. Meland, Sturm brings the implications of process thought, especially its principle of internal rel...
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Private histories
Private Histories is a complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. Ron Ebest offers a fresh perspective on familiar novelists, dramatists, and poets, introduces readers to a number of important writers who are often overlooked, and reveals rarel...
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The existence and nature of god
These original essays offer evidence that a growing number of Anglo-American philosophers are finding in the classical discussion of God's existence and nature fertile sources for the critical reflection on issues in the philosophy of religion.Nelson Pike challenges Aquinas' claim that God is not...
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Spiritual guides
Dallmayr turns to spiritual guides like Pope Francis, Paul Tillich, and Thomas Merton to escape Nietzsche's growing "desert" of consumerism and greed in modern culture.
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Salvation and sin
Salvation and Sin explores various modes of displaying the relationship between divine and human agency and the consequences of sin in fourteenth-century literature.
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Religion, scholarship, and higher education
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of...
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The writings of charles de koninck
Present the first English editions of collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906–1965).
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The way to the dwelling of light
And the Lord spoke to Job out of the whirlwind: Do you know the way to the dwelling of light?Was God merely reprimanding Job for his presumption? Or was He also issuing an invitation to explore? In The Way to the Dwelling of Light, Guy J. Consolmagno, S. J., shows us how our religious experience ...
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Hans urs von balthasar's theology of representation
This penetrating study makes a case for the centrality of the concept of representation (Stellvertretung) in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theological project.How is it possible for Christ to act in the place of humanity? In Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Representation, Jacob Lett broaches this...
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The bible and the liturgy
The Bible and the Liturgy illuminates the vital and meaningful bond between Bible and liturgy, connecting Church past and present.In the modern day, Christians accept Church rituals as sacred but baffling heirlooms from the Church’s past. But these rituals are so much more than that. Father Danié...
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The kingdom of man
Remi Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western society has rejected traditional theophilosphical ideas in favor of human authority and autonomy, ultimately causing the erasure of divinely ordered humanity.
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Rethinking the purpose of business
Rethinking the Purpose of Business challenges reigning shareholder and stakeholder management theories using philosophical and theological dimensions of the Catholic social tradition. In this useful book, the contributors, including management theorists, moral theologians, economists, ethicists, ...
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Swift's landscape
Swift’s Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape by emphasizing the influence of th...
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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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Ethics as grammar
Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with aporias—linguistic puzzles—as a means of countering modern philosophical confusions over the nature of language without replicating the same confusions in his own writings...
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Peace talks—who will listen?
In his Complaint of Peace, the great sixteenth-century humanist Erasmus allows "Peace" to talk. Peace speaks as a plaintiff, protesting her shabby treatment at the hands of humankind and our ever-ready inclination to launch wars. Against this lure of warfare, Erasmus pits the higher task of peace...
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Transformations in biblical literary traditions
These essays not only acknowledge and clarify Jeffrey’s achievement but also extend it in their attention to literary, philosophical, and religious works of the West.
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Christ’s fulfillment of torah and temple
Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple is a concise introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In this cogent study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of which corresponds to an individual chapter in ...
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Rope and faggot
In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light compl...
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Engaging the madrasa
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these qu...
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Christianity in the united states
Wills places the history of Christianity in the United States in the larger context of the globalization of the Christian religion with broad interpretation
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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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Fifteen sermons preached before the university of oxford between a.d. 1826 and 1843
These remarkable sermons by John Henry Newman (1801-1890) were first published at Oxford in 1843, two years before he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Published here in its entirety is the third edition of 1872 for which Newman added an additional sermon, bracketed notes, and, importa...
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The pocket-size god
This book is a collection of essays Robert F. Griffin, C.S.C., wrote for Notre Dame Magazine in which he considers many of the challenges that beset church and campus.
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Orthodox christian perspectives on war
This work examines the Orthodox Christian tradition's relationship with war, keeping in mind contemporary relevance, and approaching the meaning and causes of war through an interdisciplinary reflection.
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The philosophy of medicine reborn
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of...
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God at the crossroads of worldviews
Chung uses the ideas of theologians like Alasdair MacIntyre and Thomas Aquinas to discuss different worldviews and traditions about the existence of God.
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Voices of democracy
It is a mistake to take democracy for granted. It was nearly destroyed by the onslaught of totalitarianism and human perversity in the twentieth century. And there are many who echo Plato’s critique that most people can’t really make rational judgments about how to order their own lives, much les...
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Óscar romero and catholic social teaching
This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. Óscar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justice and human development.Many historians, theologians, and scholars point to St. Óscar Romero as one of the most perceptive, creative, and challenging ...
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Love of self and love of god in thirteenth-century ethics
In this book, Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., covers an important, but often neglected, aspect of medieval ethics, namely the controversy over whether or not it is possible to love God more than oneself through natural powers alone. In debating this topic, thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians ...
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Solzhenitsyn and american culture
These essays will interest readers familiar with the work of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and are a great starting point for those eager for an introduction to the great Russian’s work.When people think of Russia today, they tend to gravitate toward images of Soviet domination or, mo...
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A short history of ethics
A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book “thirty years on” and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for ...
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Priest, parish, and people
From the perspective of historical sociology, this book traces the role of religion in the lives and communities of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia from the 1850s to the early 1930s.
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Medicine and shariah
Medicine and Shariah brings together experts from various fields, including clinicians, Islamic studies experts, and Muslim theologians, to analyze the interaction of the doctors and jurists who are forging the field of Islamic bioethics.Although much ink has been spilled in generating Islamic re...
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Working in america
Caught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today’s labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued. Robert Sessions and Jack Wortman have compiled this selection of humanities readings to explore the many ways that work shapes and de...
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Origen and the emergence of divine simplicity before nicaea
This book establishes how the doctrine of divine simplicity was interwoven with the formation of a Christian Trinitarian understanding of God before Nicaea.For centuries, Christian theology affirmed God as simple (haplous) and Triune. But the doctrine of the simple Trinity has been challenged by ...
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Faith and violence
Merton’s classic Faith and Violence makes a powerful case for a theology of resistance that speaks with enduring urgency.Violence in the modern world is a complex matter. The majority of the world’s most egregious acts of violence are not perpetrated at the level of the individual—rather, they oc...
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Catherine mcauley and the tradition of mercy
Catherine McAuley was born into a wealthy Dublin family in 1778. By the time she reached adulthood, she had witnessed the death of both parents and experienced considerable personal poverty. She then worked for twenty years as a companion for an elderly couple and, upon their deaths, received an ...
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