University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
Youth Sport and Spirituality
Catholic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Unsportsmanlike behavior by student athletes or parents at youth sporting events happens with regularity these days. Much recent research reveals that young people are dropping out of sport at alarming rates due to the often toxic elements in the culture of youth sports. The timely, innovative essays...
by Paul J. Wadell, C.P.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1994
Friendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rather, the book exhibits how without friendship, our lives are morally not worth living. The book begins with a consideration of why a new model of the moral...
The Quality of Democracy
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The primary goal of this collection is to present the rationale and methodology for implementing a citizen audit of democracy. This book is an expression of a growing concern among policy experts and academics that the recent emergence of numerous democratic regimes, particularly in Latin America,...
Affections of the Mind
The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class of society used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierarchy....
Ghosts of the Somme
Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Once assumed to be a driver or even cause of conflict, commemoration during Ireland's Decade of Centenaries came to occupy a central place in peacebuilding efforts. The inclusive and cross-communal reorientation of commemoration, particularly of the First World War, has been widely heralded as signifying...
by John C.H. Wu
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
When John C. H. Wu’s spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic best seller and was compared to Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, which had appeared four years earlier. It was also hailed as the new Confession of St. Augustine for...
The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn
A Pellegrino Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of...
The Problem of Evil
Selected Readings, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Of all the issues in the philosophy of religion, the problem of reconciling belief in God with evil in the world arguably commands more attention than any other. For over two decades, Michael L. Peterson’s The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings has been the most widely recognized and used anthology...
Concern for the Other
Perspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Løgstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to Beyond the Ethical Demand, as well as to The Ethical Demand. The essays examine Løgstrup's crucial...
The Architecture of Law
Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas’s analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the “new” natural law theories. The Architecture...
by Bill Meissner
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
When Bill Meissner’s collection of short stories Hitting into the Wind was published in 1994, it was called “a quiet masterpiece of baseball writing” by the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Bill Meissner captures baseball with all its crystalline...
Celtic Unconscious, The
Joyce and Scottish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The Celtic Unconscious offers a vital new interpretation of modernist literature through an examination of James Joyce’s employment of Scottish literature and philosophy, as well as a commentary on his portrayal of shared Irish and Scottish histories and cultures. Barlow also offers an innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In William Desmond and Contemporary Theology, Christopher Simpson and Brendan Sammon coordinate, through a collection of scholarly essays, a timely exploration of William Desmond’s work on theology and metaphysics, bringing the disciplines of philosophy and theology together in new and vital ways....
St. Patrick's Day
another day in Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin takes a day trip around the city and muses on death, sex, lost love, Irish immigrant history, and his younger days as a student in Europe. Like James Joyce’s Ulysses, Thomas McGonigle’s award-winning novel St. Patrick’s Day takes...