University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books
René Girard and Secular Modernity
Christ, Culture, and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity. Cowdell identifies the scope, development, and implications of Girard’s thought, the centrality of Christ...
Dante's Commedia
Theology as Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry in the Commedia. Examining Dante's treatment of questions of language, personhood, and the body; his...
Verbs, Bones, and Brains
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
The last few decades have seen an unprecedented surge of empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and human culture. This research and its popular interpretations have sparked heated debates about the nature of human beings...
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England
Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance...
Summa Contra Gentiles
Book 3: Providence Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the history...
Summa Contra Gentiles
Book One: God
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1975
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master...
Summa Contra Gentiles
Book 3: Providence, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master...
God's Grace and Human Action
Merit' in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Offering a fresh approach to one significant aspect of the soteriology of Thomas Aquinas, God's Grace and Human Action brings new scholarship and insights to the issue of merit in Aquinas's theology. Through a careful historical analysis, Joseph P. Wawrykow delineates the precise function of merit...
Herman Dooyeweerd
Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The twentieth-century Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) left behind an impressive canon of philosophical works and has continued to influence a scholarly community in Europe and North America, which has extended, critiqued, and applied his thought in many academic fields. Jonathan...
Authoritarian El Salvador
Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could...
by James D. Redwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Love beneath the Napalm is James D. Redwood’s collection of deeply affecting stories about the enduring effects of colonialism and the Vietnamese War over the course of a century on the Vietnamese and the American and French foreigners who became inextricably connected with their fate. These finely...
Dreams for Lesotho
Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced development at the end of colonialism in Africa. The book posits that development became the...
Reverence for the Relations of Life
Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Josiah Royce and William James lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Irving Street, just two doors apart, and Charles Peirce grew up only blocks away. John Dewey was born and educated in nearby Vermont. These four great thinkers shared more than geographic space; they engaged in a series of formative...