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A boccaccian renaissance
A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together internationally recognized scholars to reveal Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe.
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Studies in the age of chaucer
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later me...
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Plato's literary garden
Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not vi...
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Passover and easter
Passover and Easter constitute for Jews and Christians respectively the most important festivals of the year. Although sharing a common root, the feasts have developed in quite distinct ways in the two traditions, in part independently of one another and in part in reaction against the other. Fol...
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On having a heart attack
Notre Dame English professor emeritus William O'Rourke recounts his heart attack and the experiences he had during recuperation. From the resulting heightened awareness of his mortality, O'Rourke asks us to change behaviors and to pay attention to our health.
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Ireland's revolutionary diplomat
Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat offers new insight into Leopold Kearney's political impact and involvement in major events and conflicts of the twentieth century.
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Juana inés de la cruz and the theology of beauty
With Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty, George H. Tavard presents the first thorough investigation of the theology of the greatest Latin American poet before our own time. HIs program is all the more important because she was the first woman of this continent to assert the right of...
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Beyond individualism
The seven provocative essays that comprise Beyond Individualism reflect on the American religious tradition in order to discover in it an ethical alternative to the ideology of individualism.The contributors include Donald L. Gelpi, Stephen C. Rowntree, Drew Christiansen, Frank M. Oppenheim, John...
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Reading in christian communities
The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A. Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections between textual interpretation and the formation of religious identity. A diverse and prestigious group of bi...
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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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Meditations on first philosophy/ meditationes de prima philosophia
This bilingual edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is aimed both specifically at serious students and professors of philosophy, and generally at anyone motivated by a strong philosophical interest.
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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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Sheets of scattered sand
Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs.In the context of the transpacific region between ...
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Opening the qur'an
Walter H. Wagner describes the content and intent of the Qur'an for fellow Christians with the intention of fostering understanding of Islam and its practices.
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Erich przywara, s.j.
This work highlights Erich Przywara contribution to Catholic thought in Germany between the two world wars.
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Beautiful ugliness
This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, ...
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The medieval islamic republic of letters
This book offers a study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period, arguing that its cultural production arose due to a body of readers across Islamic lands.
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The community of the renewed covenant
The thirteen Qumran scholars present recent overviews and syntheses in various areas of scrolls study, making The Community of the Renewed Covenant the broadest, most authoritative, and up-to-date book available on the Dead Sea Scrolls. These essays provide descriptions of the major areas of rese...
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Evelyn underhill
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Living most of her life in England, Underhill used writing as a vehicle to express her passionate search for the infinite life. Her philosophy transcends generations and her legacy as a pivotal figure...
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Shakespeare and religion
Shakespeare and Religion examines the topic of religion in Shakespearean drama from two points of view: the historical, and that of postmodern philosophy and theology.
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Four hasidic masters and their struggle against melancholy
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, studies four different rebbes in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, delving into their lives, their work, and their impact on the Hasidic movement and beyond.In Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against Melancholy, Jewish author, philosopher, an...
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The past and future of medieval studies
Confronted with severe challenges for funding, for justifying a focus on Western Europe in an increasingly pluralistic society, and for maintaining that their domain can be known and taught in some substantive manner beyond the strickly interpretive and subjective, scholars of the humanities have...
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What is ethically demanded?
This collection of essays considers central themes in the ethics of Lutheran theologian and philosopher Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981).
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Beyond the new morality
First published in 1974, with a second, revised edition in 1980, Beyond the New Morality, third edition, retains the best elements of the earlier versions, including the authors' clear, straightforward presentation and use of nontechnical language. Although the basic approach, content, and organi...
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Nietzsche and the drama of historiobiography
Tracing the shifts within Nietzsche’s understanding of the human condition, Alejandro offers an original interpretation of his philosophy, arguing that it was a philosophy of reconciliation.
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American compass
American Compass, Bill Meissner’s fourth book of poetry, is a collection that steers the reader on a varied, memorable journey down the American highway. Like the four points of a compass, each of the book's four sections has a distinct direction. "First Corners" features poems about childhood an...
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Beyond political liberalism
Dostert offers a critical examination of political liberalism, the approach to liberal political theory advanced most forcefully in the later work of John Rawls. Dostert argues that there is a steep price to be paid for this conception of politics, for what results is a political vision character...
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Medieval crossover
Newman highlights the ways in which the premodern reader understood sacred and secular not as opposing points but as a state of double judgment.
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A new birth of marriage
A New Birth of Marriage provides a history of the changes to marriage throughout the American experience and a theoretical argument for the goodness of the traditional American family in fostering private happiness and the public good.A New Birth of Marriage argues that the American Founders plac...
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Constructing civility
Park develops a framework for universally applicable public civility in multi-faith and multicultural contexts by combining concepts of Roman Catholicism and Islam.
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The grand option
In The Grand Option, renowned author Beatrice Bruteau advances her healing vision for humankind. This collection of beautifully written essays encourages readers to seek personal transformation based on heightened consciousness and Christian spirituality. Bruteau contends that this transformation...
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Scandal work
This study explores the intersection of newspaper journalism and literary production, particularly Joyce’s Ulysses, in Ireland at the end of the 19th century.
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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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Augustine and the cure of souls
Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions, offering a fresh reading of his writings.
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Hellenism in the land of israel
Israeli Jews’ response to and appropriation of Greek culture is the subject of the essays in this rich volume. Contributors provide evidence of Greek cultural influence in Judea and Galilee, from before the Maccabean revolt into the rabbinic period. They also probe the limits of that influence, t...
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Image and word in the theology of john calvin
In his groundbreaking new study of the Swiss reformer, Randall C. Zachman reveals and analyzes John Calvin’s understanding of image and word both comprehensively and chronologically, with attention to the way that each theme develops in Calvin’s theology. Most scholars allege that John Calvin (15...
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The challenge of pluralism
The politics of pluralism has long been an intractable characteristic of American public education. Today, perhaps more so than ever, educators grapple with an awareness of the fact that liberal societies cannot promote a particular vision of the moral life and still respect and uphold the multi-...
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On faith
A new translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's classic treatise provides a clear and accessible exploration of the theological virtue of faith.
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Marxism and christianity
Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it ha...
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Counterpoints
The central, driving theme of this volume is democracy, its vicissitudes and its possibilities in Latin America. Guillermo O’Donnell considers the pattern of political and social alliances that have shaped Argentina’s agitated history, and focuses on the tensions and intrinsic weaknesses of burea...
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Black and catholic
Black and Catholic documents the exclusion, erasure, and systematic racism faced by Black Catholics, filling an essential gap in both Catholic and Black history.In the storied history of the U.S. Catholic community, there is a long-standing myth held by Catholics and non-Catholics alike that ther...
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