University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
God at the Crossroads of Worldviews
Toward a Different Debate about the Existence of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have been defined and defended not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward. Paul...
by Matthew Levering
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
In Mary’s Bodily Assumption, Matthew Levering presents a contemporary explanation and defense of the Catholic doctrine of Mary’s bodily Assumption. He asks: How does the Church justify a doctrine that does not have explicit biblical or first-century historical evidence to support it? With the...
The Myth of Religious Neutrality, Revised Edition
An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Written for undergraduates, the educated layperson, and scholars in fields other than philosophy, The Myth of Religious Neutrality offers a radical reinterpretation of the general relations between religion, science, and philosophy. This new edition has been completely revised and updated by the author.
Interruptions
Mysticism, Politics, and Theology in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1998
Johann Baptist Metz is one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians in the post-Vatican II period, however there is no comprehensive overview of his theological career. This book fills that gap. It offers careful analyses and summaries of Metz's work at the various stages of his career, beginning...
Ethics as Grammar
Changing the Postmodern Subject
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2001
Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with aporias-linguistic puzzles-as a means of countering modern philosophical confusions over the nature of language without replicating the same confusions in his own writings....
Conscience
Phenomena and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Conscience: Phenomena and Theories was first published in German in 1925 as a dissertation by Hendrik G. Stoker under the title Das Gewissen: Erscheinungsformen und Theorien. It was received with acclaim by philosophers at the time, including Stoker’s dissertation mentor Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger,...
From Natural History to the History of Nature
Readings from Buffon and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings...
by Ernan McMullin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention...
Character and the Christian Life
A Study in Theological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1989
“When Character and the Christian Life first appeared in 1975, it was the most important theological contribution to moral debate to appear for many years. Hauerwas followed Catholic moral theology in making the theory of the virtues a topic for argument between secular and Christian moralities;...
Logic and Philosophy
An Integrated Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1993
The dual purpose of this volume--to provide a distinctively philosophical introduction to logic, as well as a logic-oriented approach to philosophy--makes this book a unique and worthwhile primary text for logic and/or philosophy courses. Logic and Philosophy covers a variety of elementary formal...
Passover and Easter
Origin and History to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
"In these companion volumes of essays, Jewish and Christian liturgical scholars examine, from historical, theological, and aesthetic perspectives, the practices and intricate interrelationships of Passover and Easter. Several essays lament the antisemitism that has infected the Easter liturgy,...
Miserere Mei
The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in...
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma
Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular...
Shadow and Substance
Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal...