University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books
The Burning Bush
Writings on Jews and Judaism
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena
Professors or Pundits?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...