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Worship in medieval and early modern europe
A collection of essays on the transformation of liturgical and other religious practices from the Middle Ages to the early modern era.
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Danger on the doorstep
Nordstrom argues that anti-Catholicism was prominant during the 1910's because it insisted that Roman Catholicism was insufficiently liberal and therefore posed a threat to the nation's political fabric
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Festive enterprise
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and...
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Liturgy and biblical interpretation
What happens to the Bible when it is used in worship? What does music, choreography, the stringing together of texts, and the architectural setting itself, do to our sense of what the Bible means—and how does that influence our reading of it outside of worship? In Liturgy and Biblical Interpretat...
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Religious pluralism, democracy, and the catholic church in latin america
The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.
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Dinner with osama
In this short story collection, Marilyn Krysl gets us to empathize with characters who are simply too unhappy or idealistic to be much fun.
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Toward a sacramental poetics
Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from ...
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Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
Leigh succeeds in providing his readers with a general survey of twentieth-century novels that retrieve the thematic and formal elements of premodern apocalyptic literature.
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Water and the word, volume i
Water and the Word focuses on a genre of literature written for the education of the Carolingian clergy: Carolingian baptismal instructions. This literature has never been brought together and studied collectively in the context of the books in which it circulated. As a corpus, read in comparison...
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Thornton wilder and amos wilder
This is the first book to explore the relationship between Thornton Wilder's drama and fiction and his brother Amos’s scholarship.
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Faith and the intellectual life
In Faith and the Intellectual Life ten distinguished Catholic scholars, all recipients of the University of Dayton's Marianist Award, explore how their faith as Catholics has influenced their scholarship and how, in turn, their scholarship has affected their faith.The Marianist Award, presented a...
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Religion, scholarship, and higher education
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of...
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Freedom and tradition in hegel
Freedom and Tradition in Hegel stands at the intersection of three vital currents in contemporary ethics: debates over philosophical anthropology and its significance for ethics, reevaluations of tradition and modernity, and a resurgence of interest in Hegel. Thomas A. Lewis engages these three s...
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The medieval islamic republic of letters
This book offers a study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period, arguing that its cultural production arose due to a body of readers across Islamic lands.
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American lawyers and their communities
This book examines the ethical development of American lawyers against a historical, cultural, and religious backdrop.
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Finding the voice of the church
Through his clear and relevant discussion of the basic content of Christianity, O’Brien concludes that the primary voice of Catholic Christianity, the papal teaching voice, must be radically “re-understood” if the Church is to be the proper medium and voice of the gospel message.
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Contemplating aquinas
This collection reflects the state of Aquinas studies throughout North America, Britain, and Northern Europe, and provides an introduction to this diversity for a general and scholarly readership.
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Religious movements in the middle ages
Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classificati...
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Santa tarantula
The poems in Santa Tarantula grant an urgent and haunting voice to the voiceless, explore ancient narratives, delve into Cuban history and identity, and confront trauma and violence.Jordan Pérez explores the tension between fear and reprieve, between hopelessness and light, in her debut collectio...
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The mirror of simple souls
When Dr. Romana Guarnieri, in a letter to Osservatore Romano (16 June 1946), announced her discovery that Margaret Porette (d. 1 June 1310) was the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, certainly a major French document of pre-Reformation spirituality, a sensation was created in the academic worl...
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The past and future of medieval studies
Confronted with severe challenges for funding, for justifying a focus on Western Europe in an increasingly pluralistic society, and for maintaining that their domain can be known and taught in some substantive manner beyond the strickly interpretive and subjective, scholars of the humanities have...
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A framework for the good
This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure.
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Catholics without rome
Catholics without Rome examines the dawn of the modern, ecumenical age, when “Old Catholics,” unable to abide Rome’s new doctrine of papal infallibility, sought unity with other “catholics” in the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches.In 1870, the First Vatican Council formally embraced and defi...
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Truthfulness and tragedy
In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate, or should operate, to form and direct lives. In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christia...
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The book of irish american poetry
This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose work enjoins Irish American themes.
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Visions of community in the pre-modern world
Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies,...
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For and against a united ireland
In For and Against a United Ireland, renowned journalists Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride provide an accessible and measured approach to the polarized debate about Irish unification.The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of...
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The unstoppable irish
Milner uses music to reveal the history and culture of Irish immigrants in New York, providing fresh insights into their beliefs and struggles.
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Saints as they really are
In his new book, Saints As They Really Are, priest and scholar Michael Plekon traces the spiritual journeys of several American Christians, using their memoirs and other writings. These “saints-in-the-making” show all their doubts and imperfections as they reflect on their search for God and thei...
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Philosophy of democratic government
This complete treatise of political philosophy demonstrates Yves R. Simon's belief that, even in the best conceivable circumstances, government is needed to determine direction toward the common good and to provide the means for united action.
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Theology and form
Denysenko profiles contemporary Easter Orthodox communities in the U.S. and analyzes how their religious identities are affected by their physical space and architecture.
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Faith, nationalism, and the future of liberal democracy
Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy.In Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, David Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer, and Volker Haarmann presen...
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Immigration and the border
Contributors address immigration and border politics and policies, focusing on the fourth wave of immigration and the lives of Mexican and Latino immigrants.
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Corpus mysticum
Corpus Mysticum engages the doctrine of the church and its life within the contemporary world, by investigating the relation of the church to the Eucharist.
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Opening the qur'an
Walter H. Wagner describes the content and intent of the Qur'an for fellow Christians with the intention of fostering understanding of Islam and its practices.
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Formation of souls
In The Formation of Souls, José Murilo de Carvalho examines the birth of the Brazilian Republic in 1889.
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The challenge and promise of a catholic university
Contemporary Catholic higher education finds itself at a crucial crossroad. The issues are many and complex. How is the Catholic character of the university to be preserved and fostered while avoiding secularization on the one hand and insular sectarianism on the other? Must a majority of the fac...
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Enticement of religion
In The Enticement of Religion, Kees W. Bolle has written an accessible and informative introduction to the basic facts of religion and to the ways scholars and other people have dealt with religion over the centuries. Bolle’s central purpose is to provide a serious, in-depth study that will intro...
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The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915
This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document.
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The glacier priest
Discover the true story of the Jesuit priest, explorer, geologist, and photographer who brought the wilds of Alaska—and his Catholic faith—to the American public.In The Glacier Priest, Josh McMullen reveals the captivating life and legacy of Father Bernard R. Hubbard, a devout priest and a nation...
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Peace, democracy, and human rights in colombia
This timely collection provides a theoretical understanding of human rights violations, corruption, political fragmentation, and reform in Columbia in the last forty years.
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St. thomas aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny shows how the thoughts of Aristotle, Boethius, and Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were assimilated i...
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Complicity and moral accountability
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each k...
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America against itself
America Against Itself is an in-depth, multi-faceted analysis of the pervasive cultural warfare that threatens to undermine the American social structure.Partly autobiographical, slightly polemical, and thoroughly challenging, America Against Itself is an in-depth, multi-faceted analysis of the p...
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Don't think for yourself
How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical thought.In this engaging study into the history of philosophy and epistemology, Peter Adamson provides...
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Characters in search of their author
In Characters In Search of Their Author, the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow in 1999-2000, Ralph McInerny discusses natural theology as it can be discussed in the present philosophical climate. The first five lectures ask "Whatever Happened to Natural Theology?", and trace...
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The fiore in context
The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and perhaps in Dante studies: the international conference on the Fiore held at St. John’s College, Cambridg...
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Cultural narratives
This collection of essays debates how written printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning and a multimedia culture in America before 1900.
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Sermon notes of john henry cardinal newman, 1849-1878
Newman was told that Catholic priests do not read sermons, but this does not mean that he made them up as he went along. He planned his Catholic sermons as meticulously as he did his famous Parochial and Plain, but he committed them to memory and then he made notes afterwards. His sermons, delive...
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Myth, symbol, and reality
Do myths and symbols have anything at all to tell us about reality? Or do they simply deserve to be relegated to the realm of fantastic unreality? The essayists in this volume deploy all the critical tools available in the task of taking myth and symbol seriously. They are not willing to consign ...
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