University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also...
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1994
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...
by Jennifer Newsome Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought, Jennifer Newsome Martin offers the first systematic treatment and evaluation of the Swiss Catholic theologian’s complex relation to modern speculative Russian religious philosophy. Her constructive analysis proceeds...
Medieval Autographies
The "I" of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker...
by Bo Karen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In this compelling study of two seventeenth-century female mystics, Bo Karen Lee examines the writings of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon, who, despite different religious formations, came to similar conclusions about the experience of God in contemplative prayer. Van Schurman was...
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Catholicism in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon—a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress and was the...
Statehood and Union
A History of the Northwest Ordinance
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and the admission of new states in the Old Northwest. In a new...
by Nicholas Afanasiev
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893–1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. Afanasiev was a member of the “Paris School” of émigré intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution,...
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin
The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of Russia's most ancient and politically powerful families, Father Ivan Gagarin, S.J. (1814-1882) dedicated...
by Robert A. Markus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the Secular, Robert A. Markus examines the place of the secular in Christianity, locating the origins of the concept in the New Testament and...
The Priestly Kingdom
Social Ethics as Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1985
In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant need for reform and change. Yoder first examines...
After Insurgency
Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador...
German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
A Study in Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1988
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly forty thousand German Catholics were involved in the German Catholic Peace League, a movement that caused many people in various countries to seriously reconsider the dimension of pacifism in their faith. During the course of the War, however, many of...
The Coming of the Celts, AD 1862
Celtic Nationalism in Ireland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts. De Barra chooses to examine Ireland and Wales because, of the...