University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Principle of Duty
An Essay on the Foundations of the Civic Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2001
The First American edition of a British best-seller In The Principle of Duty
by Nicholas Rescher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the...
A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas
A Handbook for Peeping Thomists
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1989
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 dominant...
The Peaceable Kingdom
A Primer in Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1991
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the necessity...
Summa Contra Gentiles
Book 4: Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master...
by John Scottus Eriugena
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
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 present world and in the afterlife.
Knowing the Unknowable God
Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker...
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy
Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Among the issues that continue to divide the Catholic Church from the Orthodox Church—the two largest Christian bodies in the world, together comprising well over a billion faithful—the question of the papacy is widely acknowledged to be the most significant stumbling block to their unification....
Open Your Heart
Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Based on in-depth interviews...
Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across...
Chosen among Women
Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi`ite Islam....
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Andrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to war and America’s role in the world. Twilight of the American Century is a collection of his selected essays written since 9/11. In these essays, Bacevich critically...
Mathematical Disquisitions
The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work...