University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Intellectual Imagination
Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual...
Freedom and Tradition in Hegel
Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Freedom and Tradition in Hegel stands at the intersection of three vital currents in contemporary ethics: debates over philosophical anthropology and its significance for ethics, reevaluations of tradition and modernity, and a resurgence of interest in Hegel. Thomas A. Lewis engages these three streams...
Words of Wisdom
A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the importance of philosophy in the Catholic intellectual tradition. In his encyclical Fides et ratio (1998), John Paul II called on philosophers “to have the courage...
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education
Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of...
Liberalism Safe for Catholicism?, A
Perspectives from The Review of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
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 Philpott...
Beyond the New Morality
The Responsibilities of Freedom, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1988
First published in 1974, with a second, revised edition in 1980, Beyond the New Morality has been used widely in introductory ethics courses at the undergraduate level. The book appeals to those who want something not overburdened with theory, and presented in a contemporary idiom. In this third edition...
Holocaust and Catholic Conscience, The
Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and...
Participatory Democracy in Brazil
Socioeconomic and Political Origins
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The largely successful trajectory of participatory democracy in post-1988 Brazil is well documented, but much less is known about its origins in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins, J. Ricardo Tranjan recounts the creation of participatory...
Saints As They Really Are
Voices of Holiness in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In his new book, Saints As They Really Are, priest and scholar Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These “saints-in-the-making” show all their doubts and imperfections as they reflect on their search for God and their...
Diffusion of Good Government
Social Sector Reforms in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
One of the most fundamental questions for social scientists involves diffusion events; simply put, how do ideas spread and why do people embrace them? In Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil, Natasha Borges Sugiyama examines why innovations spread across political territories...
Not by Nature but by Grace
Forming Families through Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families—through nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption). Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children, for it is the work of God in creation. Yet...
by Kevin Kinghorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure. In Part 1, Kevin Kinghorn offers a formal analysis of the meaning of the term "good," the nature of goodness, and why we are motivated to pursue it. Setting this analysis...
One Body
An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educated Christian readers. Alexander R. Pruss focuses on foundational questions on the nature of romantic love and on controversial questions in sexual ethics...
New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family, The
African American Missionaries to the Garifuna of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans,...