This book will appeal to undergraduates, graduate students, professional scholars, and educated laypersons in the history of ideas and late modern culture.
The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence is the first in-depth investigation into both the Greek and the Latin sides of the debate about the moment of Eucharistic transubstantiation at the Council of Florence.
Fantoli traces the growth in Galileo Galilei’s thought and actions as he embraced the new worldview presented in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, the epoch-making work of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
The book will interest scholars in and enthusiasts of political theory and psychology, American history, and U.S. electoral politics.
... incomprehensible and indubitable, simply by dint of the formal clarity and mesmerizing presence with which reality manifests itself in them.20 Like the character of Leo Naphta in Mann's Magic Mountain, to be considered later, Ippolit's ...
... divine action and evil, see Dodds, Unlocking Divine Action, 236–43; Ignacio Silva, “Providence, Contingency, and the Perfection of the Universe,” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 2 (2015): 153. 79. Aquinas, ST I.105.6 ad 1. See ...
This volume brings together essays by an impressive group of scholars, including William Wallace, O.P., Jude P. Dougherty, John Haldane, Thomas DeKoninck, Alasdair MacIntyre, David Solomon, Daniel McInerny, Janet E. Smith, Michael Novak, ...
This work makes a richly humanitarian case for parental school choice, seeking to advance social justice and respect the dignity of parents—especially those on the margins.
Scholars and advanced students of theology, religious studies, the history of ideas, and medieval thought will be interested in this book.
... love in another rather than in the acting self. It is only where reason, voluntariness, and free choice are at work ... one loves is best answered—if this can be called an answer—by pointing to what is unique and unutterable about a person.
The stations along the way include a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as ...
Mirandé offers a detailed examination of Chicano social history and culture that includes studies of: Chicano labor and the economy; the Mexican immigrant and the U.S.-Mexico border conflict; the evolution of Chicano criminality; the ...
Pamela Bright's The Book of Rules of Tyconius: Its Purpose and Inner Logic reintroduces this neglected classic of early church literature.
... Celebration: the journey into Hasidism, where dancing counts for more than prayers When Wiesel chose to gather some of the riches he had rediscovered in Hasidism, he called his collection Célébration hassidique. In the wake of all the ...
In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and practices from medieval and traditional entertainments ...
This book provides readers with an appreciation of Blondel’s conceptually creative answer to how tradition represents the Word of God in human history and why it is one of his most important contributions to modern and contemporary ...
The First American edition of a British best-seller In The Principle of Duty
Sure to capture the interest of scholars, teachers, and administrators alike, this volume features essays from Nicholas Wolterstorff, James Turner, Alan Wolfe, David A. Hollinger, Mark R. Schwehn, John McGreevy, Nancy T. Ammerman, Roger ...
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present.