University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This collection of original essays by literary critics and historians analyzes a wide range of Milton’s writing, from his early poetry, through his mid-century political prose, to De Doctrina Christiana, which was unpublished in his lifetime, and finally to his last and greatest poems. The contributors...
The One and the Many
A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
When it is taught today, metaphysics is often presented as a fragmented view of philosophy that ignores the fundamental issues of its classical precedents. Eschewing these postmodern approaches, W. Norris Clarke finds an integrated vision of reality in the wisdom of Aquinas and here offers a contemporary...
Immigration and the Border
Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The “fourth wave” of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification...
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
An Introduction to Temps et récit
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
“The object of this book,” writes William C. Dowling in his preface, “is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.” The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Many regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had strong ties to Orthodox Christianity. Yet policy makers, religious leaders, and scholars often neglect Orthodoxy’s resources when they reflect on the challenges of war.
Through essays written by prominent...
Spiritual Guides
Pathfinders in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the "desert character" of modern culture. Political and economic corruption, incessant warmongering, spoliation of natural resources, and, above all, mindless consumerism and greedy self-satisfaction are all symptoms...
St. Anselm’s Proslogion
With A Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo and The Author’s Reply to Gaunilo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1979
In the Proslogion St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the...
Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements
A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1998
Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas’s De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: “Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances” and “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.”...
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher...
Body and Mind
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker...
The Soul as Virgin Wife
Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2000
The Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and imagistic...
Theology and Form
Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How do space and architecture shape liturgical celebrations within a parish? In Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America, Nicholas Denysenko profiles seven contemporary Eastern Orthodox communities in the United States and analyzes how their ecclesiastical identities are affected...
A Community of Character
Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991
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 tell the stories of God. He challenges the dominant assumption of contemporary Christian social ethics that...
Outsiders
The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they...