University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books
God and Human Dignity
The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
Although countless books have been devoted to the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., few, if any, have focused on King's appropriation of, and contribution to, the intellectual tradition of personalism. Emerging as a philosophical movement in the early 1900s, personalism is a type of philosophical...
Anticipatory Corpse, The
Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about...
Minding the Modern
Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency—will,...
by Kody W. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody Cooper challenges this traditional...
Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple
Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple is a concise introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In this cogent study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of which corresponds to an individual chapter in the...
Life in the Spirit
Trinitarian Grammar and Pneumatic Community in Hegel and Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Since the nineteenth century, many philosophical and theological commentators have sought to trace lines of continuity between the Trinitarian thought of Augustine of Hippo (354–430) and G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831). Many contemporary Christian theologians have also criticized Augustine's Trinitarian...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book explores the role of emotions and affections in the Christian tradition from historical and theological perspectives, especially related to the work of the Holy Spirit. Although historians and scholars from a range of traditions—including Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Pietist—have engaged...
The Harp of Prophecy
Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Psalms generated more biblical commentary from early Christians than any other book of the Hebrew and Christian canon. While advances have been made in our understanding of the early Christian preoccupation with this book and the traditions employed to interpret it, no study on the Psalms traditions...
Origen and the History of Justification
The Legacy of Origen's Commentary on Romans
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Standard accounts of the history of interpretation of Paul’s Letter to the Romans often begin with St. Augustine. As Thomas P. Scheck demonstrates, however, the Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans by Origen of Alexandria (185-254 CE) was a major work of Pauline exegesis which, by means of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Since the publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez's 1973 groundbreaking work, A Theology of Liberation, much has been written on liberation theology and its central premise of the preferential option for the poor. Arguably, this has been one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of...
Book of Rules of Tyconius, The
Its Purpose and Inner Logic
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
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 insured...
Augustine and the Cure of Souls
Revising a Classical Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. Paul Kolbet uncovers a profound continuity in Augustine’s thought, from his earliest pre-baptismal writings to his final acts as bishop, revealing a man deeply indebted...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His innovative collections of short chapters meant...
Knowing the Love of Christ
An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
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 written...