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Tolkien among the moderns
Essays place modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien's work, focusing on The Lord of the Rings.
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Too smart to be sentimental
Through a series of critical and biographical essays, this work offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America.
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Touch the wounds
In this masterfully written book, Tomáš Halík calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors.One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, Tomáš Halík argues that Christians can discover the clearest v...
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Toward a sacramental poetics
Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from ...
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Toward an alternative theology
Toward an Alternative Theology: Confessions of a Non-Dualist Christian is the spiritual and intellectual autobiography of Sara Grant, a Roman Catholic Scottish nun, who, until her death in 2000, established herself as one of the leading twentieth-century figures in Indian Christian theology and t...
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Toward the endless day
Lossky's biography of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel tracks the life of one of the most important Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century through WWII and her teaching career afterwards.
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Transcendence and the sacred
A collection of essays on the problems of comparative studies of religions and cultures. Methodology and specific religious cultures are examined.
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Transcendent love
Leonard G. Friesen studies Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues of his time.
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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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Transformations of la familia on the u.s.-mexico border
This is a coherent collection of papers dealing with the impact on Mexican and Mexican-origin families living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Transforming relations
Essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honor the work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009).
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Transforming work
Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor.
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Translating christ in the middle ages
This study reveals how women’s visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion.From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word. Translatin...
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Translingual catholics
Translingual Catholics explores the life experiences and theological writings of twentieth-century Chinese Catholic intellectuals and their impact on global Catholic theology.Weaving together archival resources in Chinese, French, and English, Translingual Catholics examines the preconciliar theo...
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Treatise on divine predestination
Treatise on Divine Predestination is one of the early writings of the author of the great philosophical work Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus (the Irishman), known as Eriugena (died c. 877 A.D.). It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the...
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Treatise on happiness
The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challengi...
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Treatise on the virtues
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the ...
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Trinity and inculturation
Trinity and Inculturation offers a renewed examination of the naming of God in the context of contemporary fundamental theology and African inculturation theology.In the past decades, missionary discourse has developed an intentional theological awareness of the intricacies of African traditional...
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Tropicalia
A winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles about the city of Miami.
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Tropologies
Tropologies studies the medieval and early modern theory of morality in scripture, arguing that tropology is both a way to interpret the Bible and a theory of literary invention.
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True north
This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.
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Trust of people, words, and god
Employing tools of analytic, Continental, and Thomistic philosophy, Godfrey offers a wide-ranging reflection on the nature of trust.
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Truth and hope
In this collection of essays, which were first delivered as lectures at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1998, distinguished philosopher Peter Geach confronts some of the most difficult issues in philosophy with the precision of a logician and the gr...
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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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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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U.s.-vatican relations, 1975–1980
This book explores the bilateral relations between the United States and the Vatican from 1975 to 1980, a turbulent period that had two presidents, three presidential envoys, and three popes. This previously untold story shows how the United States and the Vatican worked quietly together behind t...
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Uncommon prayer
Plekon argues that prayer encompasses a much wider variety of activity than formal and liturgical prayers and that commonplace aspects of the Christian life are best understood as prayer.
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Underdays
Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration behind the poems in Underdays.
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Understanding dante
"In Understanding Dante, Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful...
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Unearthed
Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy produced no longer exceeds the biosphere's ability to dispose of it.
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Unearthing franco's legacy
Unearthing Franco's Legacy addresses the debate in Spain resulting from the discovery and exhumation of mass graves created by General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
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Untangling twinning
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The f...
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Untrammeled approaches
With this volume of the Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, the University of Notre Dame Press published the first English edition of a remarkable group of essays that Maritain had prepared for publication in the year before his death. He brought together various writings that had not appeared i...
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Unwritten verities
Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.
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Uses and abuses of moses
Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment.
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Value and vulnerability
Value and Vulnerability brings together scholars of many religions—including Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Islam, and Humanism—to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical perspectives...
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Values-based multinational management
Authors contend that the values dimension of the actions of multinational firms is becoming increasingly important, given the worldwide integration of economies and peoples.
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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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Verbs, bones, and brains
Verbs, Bones, and Brains engages in an interdisciplinary conversation about God, creation, evolution, and human nature.
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Versions of election
Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas t...
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Vico, genealogist of modernity
In this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Miner documents the genesis of Vico's stance toward modernity in the first phase of his thought. Through close examination of his early...
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Vico's new science of the intersubjective world
Contributors reassess the role of public intellectuals in a variety of countries and regions, their differences across different academic disciplines, and their duties in twenty-first century society.
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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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Violent democratization
Carroll analyzes peasant and rural worker mobilization, as well as elite reaction, in Colombia’s war zones over a period of twenty-five years and across three regions.
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Virtue and politics
The essays in Virtue and Politics explore the influences of Marx on Alasdair MacIntyre. They show his political theory is a form of revolutionary Aristotelianism.
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Virtues and practices in the christian tradition
Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition use Alasdair MacIntyre’s work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in three sections: descriptions of MacIntyre’s approach to ethics as developed in After Virtue, reflection...
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Vision and virtue
Christian Ethics has been far too concerned with ethical decision-making. It would seem that both the advocates of 'situation ethics', with their ever more outlandish paradigms, and the proponents of traditional moral theology, with their carefully qualified abstract deliberations, have focused t...
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Visions of sainthood in medieval rome
An English translation of the two extant accounts of Margherita Colonna's life, this text also presents research and accompanying texts to fill in the life of St. Margherita in Rome during the thirteenth century.
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Visual translation
Visual Translation breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contributing to the fields of French humanism, textual translation, and the reception of the classical tradition in the first half of the fifteenth century.While the prominence and quality of illustrations in French manuscri...
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Vita nuova
This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante's lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante's lyrical complexities of meaning, form, and sty...
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Voices in dialogue
This book provides insights into the intellectual lives, spiritual culture, and literary authorship of medieval women.
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Volition's face
Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobed...
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Walls
McClane's book of autobiographical essays deals with his personal experiences with death, race, relationships, and education.
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War, peace, and international political realism
Essays reveal the twentieth-century roots of the realist tradition and demonstrate the enduring relevance of realist insights for current international relations scholarship and foreign affairs.
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Washington and rome
To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zöller, American Catholicism is more than that; it is a contradiction in terms.With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of ...
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We belong to the land
We Belong to the Land, the gripping autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elias Chacour, capture his life's work toward peace and reconciliation for Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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We have ceased to see the purpose
This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years...
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Weather and climate of the great lakes region
The Great Lakes exert a considerable influence on the weather of the surrounding area, causing fog, clouds, breezes, snowfall, and other "lake effects." This clearly written and profusely illustrated book explains the atmospheric processes underlying the characteristic weather patterns of the reg...
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Weaving the world
An overview of Simone Weil's writings on science and mathematics which opens the door to dialogue between philosophy, art, and religion
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What happened in and to moral philosophy in the twentieth century?
What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? is a volume of essays that examine the various positions of contemporary moral philosophy
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What happened to civility
What is civility, and why has it disappeared? Ann Hartle analyzes the origins of the modern project and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne to discuss why civility is failing in our own time.In this bold book, Ann Hartle, one of the most important interpreters of sixteenth-century French philosophe...
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What i found out about her
What I Found Out About Her explores how everyday life for many can often provide a window into the contemporary American psyche.
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What is a book?
What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800.
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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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What the negro wants
Published in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come.With essays by fourteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary M...
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What you hear in the dark
This anthology gathers the best of Sonia Gernes's previous poetry and adds three sections of new poems that give lyric voice to the thoughts and questions that surface in the midnight hours: the value of the lives we've chosen, time and mortality, the struggles with belief.
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