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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault,...
Figuring the Feminine
The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary...
Christ and History
The Christology of Bernard Lonergan from 1935 to 1982
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Because of illness and age the Jesuit theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan never completed the systematic study on Christology, the doctrine concerning the person of Christ, that he had planned to write. Christ and History, written by his former student Frederick E. Crowe, is an attempt to...
by Wayne Dowler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Native soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class difference might be reconciled, the achievements of the West fused with the communalism and Christian...
Distance from the Belsen Heap
Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for Nonfiction
The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to...
Disraeli
The Romance of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
When we think of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), one of two images inevitably first springs to mind: either Disraeli the two-time prime minister of Britain, or Disraeli the author of major novels such as Coningsby, Sybil, and Endymion. But were these two sides of his persona entirely separate? After...
by Bernard Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Method in Theology stands, with Insight, as Bernard Lonergan's most important work. It is Lonergan's answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his...
A Second Collection
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
For the edition of A Second Collection prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky have added archival materials directly related to almost every one of the papers, bringing the reader closer to the original compositions. The papers date from 1966...
by Bernard Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan’s most important work. It is Lonergan’s answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution, the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in...
A Third Collection
Volume 16
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
A Third Collection, prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan by editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, is a helpful companion to volumes four and thirteen in the series. The volume contains fifteen papers, written between 1974 and 1982, and includes some of his most important shorter...
Pascal the Philosopher
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Blaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal’s harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal’s critics have...
by Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple...
Silent Moments in Education
An Autoethnography of Learning, Teaching, and Learning to Teach
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Colette A. Granger's highly original book considers moments in several areas of education in which silence may serve as both a response to difficulty and a means of working through it. The author, a teacher educator, presents narratives and other textual artefacts from her own experiences of learning...
Reconciling Canada
Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases...