University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
by Richard S. Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
How should Christian readers of scripture hold appropriate and constructive tensions between exegetical, critical, hermeneutical, and theological concerns? This book seeks to develop the current lively discussion of theological hermeneutics by taking an extended test case, the book of Numbers, and...
Time in Eternity
Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of “time and eternity” is central to the relation between God and the world in two ways. First, it involves the notion of the divine eternity as the supratemporal source of creaturely...
Christian Moral Life, The
Directions for the Journey to Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
To take a journey, travelers must know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there. Moral theology examines the same three truths. The Christian Moral Life is a handbook for moral theology that uses the theme of a journey to explain its key ethical concepts. First, humans begin with...
by Laurence Kriegshauser, O.S.B.
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Written centuries before Christ, the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible have been prayed by Christians since the founding of the Church. The early church fathers expounded the psalms in the light of the mystery of Christ, his death and resurrection, and his saving redemption. In this book, a Benedictine monk...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Since the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology's central premise of the preferential option for the poor has become one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of the twentieth century. As the situation for...
With All Your Mind
A Christian Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to this...
Rethinking Poverty
Income, Assets, and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In Rethinking Poverty, James P. Bailey argues that most contemporary policies aimed at reducing poverty in the United States are flawed because they focus solely on insufficient income. Bailey argues that traditional policies such as minimum wage laws, food stamps, housing subsidies, earned income...
by Louis H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Philo's Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism presents the most comprehensive study of Philo's De Vita Mosis that exists in any language. Feldman, well known for his work on Josephus and ancient Judaism, here paves new ground using rabbinic material with philological precision to illuminate...
Constructing Civility
The Human Good in Christian and Islamic Political Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In Constructing Civility, Richard Park bridges Christian and Islamic political theologies on the basis of an Aristotelian ethics. He argues that modern secularism entails ideological commitments that can work against the promotion of public civility in pluralistic societies. A corrective outlook on...
Morality Truly Christian, Truly African
Foundational, Methodological, and Theological Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Given the largely Eurocentric nature of moral theology in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, what will it take to invest the theological community in the history and moral challenges of the Church in other parts of the world, especially Africa? What is to be gained for the whole Church when...
by Herbert R. Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127...
Down the Nights and Down the Days
Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
This latest book from veteran O’Neillian Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the influence of the Irish playwright’s Catholic heritage on his moral imagination. Critics, due to O'Neill's early renunciation of faith at age 15, have mostly overlooked this presence in his work. While Shaughnessy makes...
Secularization without End
Beckett, Mann, Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious...
Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, The
Arabic Knowledge Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse...