University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education
Theological, Historical, and Contemporary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim...
Reclaiming Goodness
Education and the Spiritual Quest
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Reclaiming Goodness: Education and the Spiritual Quest begins with the premise that sound models for achieving both spiritual fulfillment and the "good life" are lacking in contemporary culture. Arguing that contemporary education is responsible for having abandoned spirituality and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
It has long been recognized that J. R. R. Tolkien's work is animated by a profound moral and religious vision. It is less clear that Tolkien's vision confronts the leading philosophical and literary concerns addressed by modern writers and thinkers. This book seeks to resolve such uncertainty. It...
by Emmanuel Mounier
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1989
This volume is Mounier's final definition of personalism. First published less than a year before his death in 1950, it is a beautifully written, clear yet unsystematic statement of personalism.
In Good Company
The Church as Polis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1995
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Politics, Ethics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was a noted ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Her four decades of scholarship defy easy categorization: she wrote both seminal works of theory and occasional pieces for the popular press, and she was variously viewed as radical and conservative,...
Shaped by Stories
The Ethical Power of Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical implication of this nearly universal human obsession...
Gringo Justice
Catholicism in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1994
Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas—displacement from the...
Elie Wiesel
Messenger to All Humanity, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1994
Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement." Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity,...
by Vittorio Hösle, Francis R. Hittinger IV
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Among the classics of the history of philosophy, the Scienza nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) was largely neglected and generally misunderstood during the author's lifetime. From the nineteenth century onwards Vico’s views found a wider audience, and today his influence is...
Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text
The Heroism of Catholic Chaplains and Sisters in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Shortly after the Civil War ended, David Power Conyngham, an Irish Catholic journalist and war veteran, began compiling the stories of Catholic chaplains and nuns who served during the war. His manuscript, Soldiers of the Cross, is the fullest record written during the nineteenth century of the Catholic...
The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor
The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she...
by Laurie Ann Guerrero
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie...
Wild Track
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart’s work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart’s poetry both in the United...