University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books

The Burning Bush

Writings on Jews and Judaism

by Vladimir Solovyov
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016

Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete oeuvre on the Jewish...

Abandoned Tracks

The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania

by W. Thomas Mainwaring
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book...
by George E. Demacopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006

In late antiquity the rising number of ascetics who joined the priesthood faced a pastoral dilemma. Should they follow a traditional, demonstrably administrative, approach to pastoral care, emphasizing doctrinal instruction, the care of the poor, and the celebration of the sacraments? Or should they...

Gregory the Great

Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome

by George E. Demacopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Gregory the Great (bishop of Rome from 590 to 604) is one of the most significant figures in the history of Christianity. His theological works framed medieval Christian attitudes toward mysticism, exegesis, and the role of the saints in the life of the church. The scale of Gregory's administrative...

Transforming Work

Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

by Katherine C. Little
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as Katherine C. Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral...

René Girard, Unlikely Apologist

Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology

by Grant Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016

Since the late 1970s, theologians have been attempting to integrate mimetic theory into different fields of theology, yet a distrust of mimetic theory persists in some theological camps. In René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology, Grant Kaplan brings mimetic theory...

Work of Love

A Theological Reconstruction of the Communion of Saints

by Leonard J. DeLorenzo
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

The saints are good company. They are the heroes of the faith who blazed new and creative paths to holiness; they are the witnesses whose testimonies echo throughout the ages in the memory of the Church. Most Christians, and particularly Catholics, are likely to have their own favorite saints, those...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

What is a public intellectual? Where are they to be found? What accounts for the lament today that public intellectuals are either few in number or, worse, irrelevant? While there is a small literature on the role of public intellectuals, it is organized around various thinkers rather than focusing...
by Richard J. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991

Considered the paradigm case of the troubled interaction between science and religion, the conflict between Galileo and the Church continues to generate new research and lively debate. Richard J. Blackwell offers a fresh approach to the Galileo case, using as his primary focus the biblical and ecclesiastical...

Corpus Mysticum

The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages

by Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990

One of the major figures of twentieth-century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac was known for his attention to the doctrine of the church and its life within the contemporary world. In Corpus Mysticum de Lubac investigates a particular understanding of the relation of the church to the eucharist....
by Frederick C. Copleston, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought from the ancient world to the late medieval period. A History of Medieval Philosophy is an invaluable general introduction that also includes longer treatments of such leading thinkers as Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.

Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

by Alasdair MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1994

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability,' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016

Benedict XVI’s writing as priest-professor, bishop, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and now pope has shaped Catholic theological thought in the twentieth century. In Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI, a multidisciplinary group of scholars treat the full scope of...
by Alasdair MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1984

Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has...
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