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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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A breeze called the fremantle doctor
In three poem sequences that read like novellas, Sonia Gernes brings together the lyric intensity of her poetry and the narrative grip of the well-told tale. Each poem/tale is set in a real time and place, and each is documented with original photographs from scrapbooks and archives.In "The India...
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A church that can and cannot change
Noonan's analysis of the development in Catholic moral teaching on usury, contraception, religious freedom, slave-holding, and divorce.
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A common person and other stories
These prizewinning stories champion the everyday person who tries to do his or her best in demanding and even demeaning situations.The stories in A Common Person and Other Stories, R. M. Kinder’s third short-story collection and the winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, expose th...
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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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A critique of the new natural law theory
In this volume Russell Hittinger presents a comprehensive and critical treatment of the attempt to restate and defend a theory of natural law, particularly as proposed by Germain Grisez and John Finnis. A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory begins by examining the positions of various moral ph...
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A defense of dignity
A Defense of Dignity argues that all human beings should be treated with respect and considers how this belief should be applied in controversial cases.
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A defense of galileo
Despite extensive study of the Galileo affair in recent years, there are still some important documents relating to the case which have received little attention in the English-speaking world. In his translation of Thomas Campanella's Apologia pro Galileo, Richard J. Blackwell presents for the fi...
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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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A framework for the good
This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure.
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A gathering of leaves
A lively and wide-ranging collection from David Bentley Hart, A Gathering of Leaves invites readers to rediscover the sheer joy of reading.David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in...
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A general theory of authority
A General Theory of Authority was first printed in 1962 and is a classic treatment of authority and its relation to justice, life, truth, and order. In recent years, authority has been seen as an enemy of freedom, autonomy, and development. In this book, the renowned philosopher Yves R. Simon, hi...
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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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A history of the mexican-american people
When A History of the Mexican-American People was first published in 1977 it was greeted with enthusiasm for its straightforward, objective account of the Mexican-American role in U.S. history. Since that time the text has been used with great success in high school and university courses. This n...
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A journey with god in time
In this unique autobiography, John Dunne meditates on what it is to love God with all one's mind, might, heart, and soul. Dunne's captivating prose connects contemporary theology with the very real life experiences of finding, losing, and living love. Centered around pivotal moments at various st...
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A legend of holy women
Sheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443–1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustinian fr...
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A liberalism safe for catholicism?
This volume is the third in the “Perspectives from The Review of Politics” series, following The Crisis of Modern Times, edited by A. James McAdams (2007), and War, Peace, and International Political Realism, edited by Keir Lieber (2009). In A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, editors Daniel Phil...
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A philosophy of belonging
James Greenaway offers a philosophical guide to understanding, affirming, and valuing the significance of belonging across personal, political, and historical dimensions of existence.A sense of belonging is one of the most meaningful experiences of anyone’s life. Inversely, the discovery that one...
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A philosophy of the unsayable
In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, Franke argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time.
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A promised land, a perilous journey
In this collection by 19 authors, the relationship between the transfer of goods and ideas across borders, especially the US-Mexican line, yields interesting reflections on globalization and developing a global mind.
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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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A search for god in time and memory
Dunne shows us how we can, through an examination of our own lives and the lives of great writers and philosophers, become closer to "the face underlying all, that of the compassionate God."A Search for God in Time and Memory is an experiment in religious thought. While Catholic in scope and in h...
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A search for wisdom and spirit
Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the true self is the "liberation of the image ...
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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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A theology of creation
This book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos.In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis discerns beneath the imminent threat of ecological catastrophe an existential affl...
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A theology of health
While the health of the body can be defined by its functioning parts and systems, the health of the person is more complex. To flourish, we need to understand health in the context of God’s intent.A Theology of Health presents a Christian understanding of the very concept of health, both the heal...
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A tongue in the mouth of the dying
Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday, Guerrero’s poems explore not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community.
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A vision quest
This book represents Dunne's most sustained engagement with modern scientific materialism and the great circle of love
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Abducted in iraq
This riveting book documents Bishop Hanna's twenty-eight days in captivity in Iraq as he struggles through threats, torture, and doubt.
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Abelard in four dimensions
Abelard in Four Dimensions provides new interpretations of central areas of Peter Abelard's philosophy and its influence.
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Accounting for dante
In Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on original research of manuscripts and ...
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Achievement of john henry newman
The centennial of John Henry Newman's death in 1890 marks an appropriate time for a critical reevaluation of his work. Here Ian Ker, noted Newman scholar and author of the definitive John Henry Newman: A Biography, considers Newman's achievement as a whole but in a focused and selective way. Ker ...
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Acid
Winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, Acid is a collection of short stories that entertain and engage us and, in the end, make new again some of the oldest and most intractable human struggles.
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Acquisition and exhibition of classical antiquities
Robin Rhodes' rich collection of essays with multiple perspectives on ethical questions surrounding the ownership of cultural property and the acquisition of antiquities.
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Action (1893)
This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic.Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But ...
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Activating democracy in brazil
Activating Democracy in Brazil examines Brazil’s participatory citizenship regime and the rise of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which has transformed the way Brazilians work together politically.
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Acts of recognition
Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual and the social in medieval literature.
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Adam's curse
Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam’s Curse"—the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the...
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Adventures in philosophy at notre dame
A narrative history of Notre Dame's world renowned philosophy department, which divides the nearly 80 decades into three distinct periods: textbook Thomism, pluralism, and professionalism.
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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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Affections of the mind
This book focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues that the late medieval literature of sacramental marriage subverted aristocratic and clerical traditions of love and marriage.
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Afro-atlantic catholics
This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century.Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversat...
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After physicalism
The contributors to After Physicalism provide powerful alternatives to the physicalist account of the human mind from a dualistic point of view.
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After virtue
This classic and controversial book examines the roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in modern life, and proposes a path for its recovery.
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Against all england
This book examines poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history.
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Against the nations
Against the Nations is Stanley Hauerwas's most wide-ranging and sustained effort to develop a uniquely Christian ethic. The book moves from such general themes as "Keeping Theological Ethics Theological" and "Keeping Theological Ethics Imaginative" to the application of these themes to such diver...
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Against the self-images of the age
MacIntyre successively criticizes Christianity, Marxism, and psychoanalysis for their failure to express the forms of thought and action that constitute our contemporary social life, and argues that a greater understanding of our complex world will require a more thorough inquiry into the philoso...
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Agrarian spirit
This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns.For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and finding fo...
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Aims
This concise, finely crafted discussion provides a thoroughly teleological, value-centered approach to metaphysics and proves a thorough and insightful project in modern philosophy.
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Alasdair macintyre
"Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine seeks to defend the Scottish philosopher’s standing as one of the most profound theorists of capitalist modernity on either side of the Atlantic. . . . For Perreau-Saussine, the central intellectual problems with which MacIn...
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Alasdair macintyre on practical philosophy
This vital collection showcases the trajectory of MacIntyre’s thought and the perennial significance of his work.One of the world’s foremost philosophers for over half a century, Alasdair MacIntyre stands at the forefront of the revival of Aristotelianism in contemporary thought. Alasdair MacInty...
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All occasions
Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar explorations of his native Texas landscape and the struggle to integrate wartime experiences into t...
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Ambrose's patriarchs
The only monograph-length study of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan.
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America and the just war tradition
Hall and Charles evaluate America's major wars, exploring the causes and contexts of each conflict, and providing policy guidance for the use of force in the world today.
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America’s working poor
With the erosion of the economic boundaries that once defined the American middle class, the United States seems nearer to becoming an economically dichotomous society of rich and poor. While this alarming economic trend has spurred much discussion in the political and economic arenas, the workin...
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American catholic experience
Spanning nearly 500 years, The American Catholic Experience describes the Catholic experience from the arrival of Columbus and the other European explorers to the present day. Jay P. Dolan discusses Catholicism as it spread across the New World, transforming—and being transformed by—the land and ...
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American catholic higher education
A reference volume containing the documents that reveal church officials’ and university presidents’ collaborative efforts to answer the question: What does it mean to be a Catholic university or college?
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American catholics and the mexican revolution, 1924-1936
This book looks at the ways Roman Catholic leaders tried to influence U.S. political leaders in regard to Mexico's postrevolutionary government.
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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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American dantes
American Dantes provides fresh perspectives on Dante’s reception and cultural impact in the United States over the past two hundred years.American Dantes investigates the depth and breadth of Dante’s American legacy from the early nineteenth century to the present. Showcasing an impressive array ...
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American evangelicalism
This collection of essays uses the career and scholarship of George M. Marsden to measure current trends in the historical study of American evangelical Protestantism.
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American lawyers and their communities
This book examines the ethical development of American lawyers against a historical, cultural, and religious backdrop.
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American presidents in diplomacy and war
By analyzing how America’s greatest presidents displayed their mastery of statecraft, American Presidents in Diplomacy and War offers important lessons about the most effective uses of national power abroad.American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced ...
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American public life and the historical imagination
By applying a variety of critical historical strategies and methodologies to the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American public life, contributors to this volume unearth fascinating chronicles in American history. The alliance of the Anti-Saloon League and the Klu Klux Klan in the ear...
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American statesmanship
American Statesmanship, much needed in our public discourse, examines some of the most significant political leaders in American history.With an eye on the elusive qualities of political greatness, this anthology considers the principles and practices of diverse political leaders who influenced t...
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Among ruins
Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania.
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An elementary christian metaphysics
Joseph Owens presents an introduction to metaphysics designed to develop in the reader a habitus of thinking. Using original Thomistic texts and Etienne Gilson’s interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas, Owens examines the application of metaphysical principles to the issues that arise in a specifica...
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An essay in aid of a grammar of assent
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Be...
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An essay on the development of christian doctrine
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, reprinted from the 1878 edition, “is rightly regarded as one of the most seminal theological works ever to be written,” states Ian Ker in his foreword to this sixth edition. “It remains,” Ker continues, "the classic text for the theology of the d...
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An inconvenient apocalypse
"If we are to see a better future realized, not only do we need to rethink our individual patterns of behavior, but we must also resist cultural formations that reduce our humanity to marketplace identities. . . . If we decide this is who we are, our future may still be bright, even if it is not ...
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An yves r. simon reader
An Yves R. Simon Reader is the first collection of texts from the entirety of the philosopher’s work.French Catholic (and then American) political philosopher Yves R. Simon was a student of Jacques Maritain and one of the most important figures in the revival of Thomism. His work, however, is sti...
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Analogia entis
Analogia Entis is an intellectually rigorous and systematic account of Thomas’s teaching regarding the analogy of being.
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Ancient pottery, cuisine, and society at the northern great lakes
This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology...
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Angelic wisdom
Angelic Wisdom presents new interpretations and evaluations of medieval spirituality, and serves as a spiritual guide for those who seek God through the grace of contemplation
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Anthology of beowulf criticism, the
Was the Beowulf-poet a Christian or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The eighteen contribution to the anthology...
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Antoine frédéric ozanam
More than an account of Ozanam’s life, Antoine Frédéric Ozanam is a comprehensive study of the teachings of the principal founder of Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
Leigh succeeds in providing his readers with a general survey of twentieth-century novels that retrieve the thematic and formal elements of premodern apocalyptic literature.
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Aquinas and the infused moral virtues
This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace.Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous disp...
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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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Aquinas on matter and form and the elements
Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas’s De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: “Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances” and “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.” The Princ...
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Aquinas's eschatological ethics and the virtue of temperance
Matthew Levering offers a biblical and Thomistic portrait of the cardinal virtue of temperance and its allied virtues, in dialogue with an ecumenical range of theologians and scholars.In Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Levering argues that Catholic ethics make sense ...
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Aquinas's ethics
This work places Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context in a way that makes Aquinas accessible to students and interested general readers.
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Arabia felix from the time of the queen of sheba
Sheba, or Saba, is a region of high mountains and vast deserts situated in the southwest of the Arabian peninsula, in what is known today as Yemen. The mysteries and riches of Sheba and its people enticed the likes of Alexander the Great, the Emperor Augustus, and the kings of Ethiopia and Byzant...
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Arabic literary salons in the islamic middle ages
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages is a unique contribution to understanding how poetry and literature were received in medieval Islam.
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Aristotle and modern politics
Despite the separation between classical and modern theories of government, contributors to Aristotle and Modern Politics find Aristotle a useful interlocutor for assessing both possibilities and limitations in contemporary politics. In this collection, noted political scientists, theologians, an...
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Aristotle's discovery of the human
Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts.In Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and th...
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Ars vitae
Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life.The ancient Rom...
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Art and prudence
In this collection of essays, Ralph McInerny portrays Jacques Maritain as a devoted Thomist, convinced that faith could never be divorced from reason and that reason without faith was meaningless.
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Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of jerome and cassian
Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century.
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Aspiring to fullness in a secular age
Inspired by Charles Taylor's magisterial A Secular Age, essays offer a host of expert analyses of the religious and theological threads running throughout Taylor’s oeuvre.
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Athenian democracy
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy’s achievements and its limits.In this classic work, noted political scientist Arlene W. Saxonhouse offers fresh and provocative explorations of ancient political theorists, lending new ...
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Augustine and the bible
Based on the acclaimed French volume Saint Augustin et la Bible, this translation with additional selections honors the beautifully wrought monument to the scholarly research of Anne-Marie la Bonnardière and her colleagues. Editor Pamela Bright offers the first English-language edition of this vo...
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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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Augustine and the limits of politics
Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and applies Augustinian thought to modern problems and misguided politics.
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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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Authenticity as self-transcendence
McCarthy develops and expands his earlier argument with four new essays, designed to show Lonergan's exceptional relevance to the cultural situation of late modernity.
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Authoritarian el salvador
In Authoritarian El Salvador, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in El Salvador in 1931.
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Authoritarian legacies and democracy in latin america and southern europe
Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe brings together well-known comparative political scientists to define and explore the effects of authoritarian rule in post-authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe, the Southern Cone, and Brazil. Contributors to this volum...
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Auto/body
The poems in Auto/Body are an inexhaustible engine—sometimes a body, sometimes flesh—a sensual exploration of what it means to repair, to remake, to keep going even when rebuilding feels impossible.From the greased-up engines of auto body shops to the innumerable points of light striking the danc...
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Avoiding governors
Fenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program.
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