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Protestants and patriots
D. G. Hart chronicles the transatlantic history of Presbyterianism as a political movement from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, tracing its evolution into a modern, liberal religion.Historians have often described Presbyterianism as a political orientation that leads to rebellion and r...
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Wing to wing, oar to oar
Despite current concerns for “family values” and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction o...
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The person and the common good
The Person and the Common Good, originally published in 1947, presents Jacques Maritain's clearest and most sustained treatment of the person. He asks whether the person is simply the self and nothing more. After more than half a century, Maritain's question still has great validity, given the cu...
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A defense of galileo
Despite extensive study of the Galileo affair in recent years, there are still some important documents relating to the case which have received little attention in the English-speaking world. In his translation of Thomas Campanella's Apologia pro Galileo, Richard J. Blackwell presents for the fi...
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Muhammad reconsidered
Muhammad Reconsidered rectifies the failures of scholarly attempts to understand Islam in the West and to take Islamic theology seriously.Engaging Islam from deep within the Christian tradition by addressing the question of the prophethood of Muhammad, Anna Bonta Moreland calls for a retrieval of...
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The enlightenment and the birth of modern nationhood
Renowned historian Andrzej Walicki here challenges the conventional understanding of the rise of nationalism and the nation-building process in East-Central Europe.Arguing that the views advanced by Hans Kohn and others are marred by an inadequate knowledge of Polish history and thought, Walicki ...
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Vision and virtue
Christian Ethics has been far too concerned with ethical decision-making. It would seem that both the advocates of 'situation ethics', with their ever more outlandish paradigms, and the proponents of traditional moral theology, with their carefully qualified abstract deliberations, have focused t...
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Stepmotherland
"In Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes meditates on migration, and the American dream. He reminds us that Blackness is everywhere, persevering against erasure and violence. This collection is a satisfying and essential second book that leaves us excited for all that is to come from this poet...
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The very rich hours of jacques maritain
The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny’s hymn of praise to the spiritual and intellectual life of the great Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1881–1973). The structure of this work is modeled on the medieval book of hours, making use of the daily ...
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Knowing the love of christ
Knowing the Love of Christ provides a thorough introduction to the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in accessible language. As a complement to the many short introductions to St. Thomas’s philosophy, this book fills a gap in the literature on Thomas—a comprehensive introduction to his thought writt...
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A greek thomist
Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation and modification of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of providence by fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios. Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas’s theology, the legacy of Greek patristic and later th...
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René girard and secular modernity
In René Girard and Secular Modernity, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity.
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April 1917
April 1917, Book 1, captures the division and helplessness of Russia’s first Revolutionary rulers, paving the way for the victory of the ruthless Bolsheviks later that year.One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic w...
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In good company
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.
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A community of character
Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century.Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly...
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The saint's life and the senses of scripture
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies.Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, i...
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Tracts for the times
This volume contains the majority of John Henry Newman's contributions to the series "Tracts for the Times," published by leaders of England's Oxford Movement.
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Tropicalia
A winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles about the city of Miami.
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Marxism and christianity
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 ha...
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Why religious freedom matters
Marshalling unprecedented global scholarship, Allen Hertzke demonstrates how religious freedom is pivotal to democratic, peaceful, and flourishing societies.The twenty-first century has witnessed a rising crisis of religious repression and persecution. In Why Religious Freedom Matters, Allen Hert...
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Between two millstones, book 1
The first of a two-volume memoir, Between Two Millstones, Book 1 explores Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s exile from the Soviet Union and struggles to find a home in the West.
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Rethinking the medieval legacy for contemporary theology
In Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, six theologians examine how medieval traditions and theology can provide insights into contemporary theological issues.
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Aesthetics and the incarnation in early medieval britain
This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition.Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in E...
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Revival
P. J. Mathews argues against the received opinion that the Irish Revival was a purely mystical affair of high culture characterized by a preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality, nostalgia for Gaelic Ireland, and anti-modern traditionalism. Instead, he claims, the time of the Iri...
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The book of rules of tyconius
The Liber Regularum, written by Tyconius in the Fourth Century A.D., was the first system of biblical interpretation proposed by a Latin theologian. Augustine was very interested in this work and included an extraordinary summation of it in his De doctrina christiana. Although this treatment insu...
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The star of redemption
The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called “the new thinking,” the work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract, conceptual...
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Democratic responsibility
American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white...
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The 1916 irish rebellion
This lavishly illustrated book presents an informed history of the Easter Rising, one of the most significant political episodes in 20th century Irish history.
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Agrarian spirit
This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns.For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and finding fo...
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The principle of duty
The First American edition of a British best-seller In The Principle of Duty
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Catholicism and american borders in the gothic literary imagination
O'Gorman presents a study of the role of Catholicism in American Gothic literature, exploring its influence as a religion without a country and its ability to permeate borders and American traditions.
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Roots of brazil
Roots of Brazil explores the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil. This classic work is essential to understanding Brazilian history, society, and culture.
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Plato's literary garden
Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not vi...
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Population growth, social segregation, and voting behavior in lima, peru, 1940–2016
As one of South America’s larger capital cities, Lima, Peru, is remarkably understudied as a demographic and economic entity unto itself. In this important book, Henry Dietz presents an in-depth historical, sociological, and political analysis of a major Latin American city in the post–World War ...
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Gay, catholic, and american
“[This] memoir chronicles a personal journey that became public with [Greg] Bourke at the forefront of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Through it all, Bourke and his longtime partner and now husband, Michael De Leon, have remai...
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Petrarch’s guide to the holy land
In the early spring of 1358 Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased at the invitation, Petrarch nevertheless declined to undertake the journey. Fear of the sea, of ship...
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Pastoral power, clerical state
Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Pentecostal pastors enjoy an unprecedented authority in contemporary Nigerian society, exerting significan...
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Chaucer and religious controversies in the medieval and early modern eras
This book situates Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international textual environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries.
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Road to cosmos
In his second short story collection, Bill Meissner explores the consciousness of Cosmos, U.S.A, a small town that is anything but ordinary. Cosmos contains universal characters, each of them struggling to find order, love, and identity amid the chaos of their lives.
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Ethics, politics, and natural law
A rigorous but accessible overview of the new natural law account of ethics and political philosophy.The foundational principles of ethics and politics are principles that guide us to respect and promote human flourishing. In Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law Melissa Moschella provides an accessi...
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From the cast-iron shore
Oakley recounts his life story, reflections, and experience as President of Williams College in Massachusetts alongside the story of the college's educational and cultural progression from the 1950s to today.
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The longing for home
The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp. Essays by Elie Wiesel, We...
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Deep rhythm and the riddle of eternal life
In Deep Rhythm and the Riddle of Eternal Life, John S. Dunne examines the end of earthly life and the prospect of eternal life.
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From revolution to power in brazil
Serbin brings the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present, exploring its unique contributions and challenges as an emerging global capitalist giant.
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Engaging the madrasa
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these qu...
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Authoritarian el salvador
In Authoritarian El Salvador, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in El Salvador in 1931.
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Shadow and substance
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctri...
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Uses and abuses of moses
Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment.
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Whores of babylon
A historical overview of how seventeenth-century Englishwomen were valued and employed, used and abused, in print.
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Transforming relations
Essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honor the work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009).
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