University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books
Conflicts of Devotion
Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments...
Suspicious Moderate
The Life and Writings of Francis à Sancta Clara (1598–1680)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual...
What Is Ethically Demanded?
K. E. Løgstrup's Philosophy of Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This collection of essays by leading international philosophers considers central themes in the ethics of Danish philosopher Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981). Løgstrup was a Lutheran theologian much influenced by phenomenology and by strong currents in Danish culture, to which he himself made important...
Freedom from Reality
The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from...
by Piero Boitani
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare’s “rescripturing” of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation...
The Long and the Short of It
A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Students of English literature now rarely receive instruction in versification (theory or practice) at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. The Long and the Short of It is a clear, straightforward account of versification that also functions as an argument for a renewed attention to the...
The Radical Center
Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1976
Drawing on extensive research and national survey data, sociologist Donald I. Warren here presents an in-depth analysis of the Middle American Radicals, who they are, what they believe, the major targets of their grievances, and the likelihood of their political mobilization. The evidence indicates...
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of AssentGrammar, highlights its principal themes, and evaluates its philosophical originality.
by Jay P. Corrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II, Jay P. Corrin traces the evolution of Catholic social and theological thought from the end of World War II through the 1960s that culminated in Vatican Council II. He focuses on the emergence of reformist thinking as represented by the Council...
Latinos in New York
Communities in Transition, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third...
by Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M.
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
The immense suffering in the modern world, especially in the light of the Holocaust, has had a profound impact on the contemporary understanding of God and his relationship to human suffering. There has been a growing acceptance that God himself suffers in solidarity and love with those who suffer....
Being With God
Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
The central task of Being With God is an analysis of the relation between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky (1903–58) and John Zizioulas (1931–), arguably...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
In Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, six distinguished theologians bridge medieval and contemporary theologies by developing the theological significance of medieval insights in response to contemporary issues. Their nuanced readings of medieval texts, extended to major theological...
Images of Hope
Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1974
This is a book about hope. Part 1 is a compact but necessarily limited attempt to describe the actual structure and concrete forms of hope and hopelessness; Part 2 is an exploration of a psychology of hope, the beginning of an investigation of what psychic forms and dynamisms move most toward hope...