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The Papacy Has Long Played a crucial role in western civilization. To many, its history and theology have seemed steeped in hostility toward the Jews. In the post-World War II era, the initial focus was on Pope Pius XII's stance during the Holocaust, it soon expanded, however, to the broader question of the papacy and the Jews. The present work transcends the thicket of controversy and provides a historical account of the relationship between ...

Some of the most important literary works of the twentieth century wrestle with a deep distrust of language, a distrust born of an untenable skepticism that insists on the manufacture of doubts where doubts are nonsensical. Common to each expression of this distrust is the often hidden premise that no knowledge or tool of knowledge, least of all language, can be trusted until an absolute justification can be provided for it. Idling the Engine ...

Augustine's understanding of the origin of the soul and the nature of its fall looms as one of the most important and controversial questions among Augustinian scholars since Robert J. O'Connell first began publishing on the topic. O'Connell argued that Augustine embraced Plotinus's doctrine that the soul existed before the body and only fell into bodily life as the result of sin. Such a position, however, is fundamentally incompatible with Ch...

*Explores philosopher Jacques Maritains thought on American democracy and culture*

*Fresh interpretations of the greatest philosophers on the nature of truth and speculative essays on truth in law, the arts, and science*

*A study of the writings of one of the most sensitive commentators on the schools, courts, and politics of twelfth-century France and England*

*The first-ever English translation of Origens extant homilies on Judges*

*Leading medieval scholars analyze one of the best-known historical narratives of the Middle Ages*

*A history of the American Catholic Churchs policy toward rural issues in the past century*

*Explores the deep interest in spirituality and mysticism among Catholic Modernists*

Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the familys cloisters for religious women. She spent the last thirty years of her life in her cell, doing penance for her sins, fending off attacks by the devil, and instructing women in religion and handiwork through its one small window. Hathumoda, the daughter of a noble Saxon couple whose progeny would establish...

Susan McKenna presents the innovative narratives of Emilia Pardo Bazn, Spains preeminent nineteenth-century female writer, in Crafting the Female Subject. Known for her novels and essays, Pardo Bazn (1851-1921) also authored more than 580 short stories, whose literary experimentation and concern for female subjectivity strikingly redefine her corpus. Breaking with the traditional limitations of the short story, Pardo Bazns themes and narrative...

Rhetoric operated at the crux of seventeenth-century thought, from arguments between scientists and magicians to anxieties over witchcraft and disputes about theology. Writers on all sides of these crucial topics stressed rhetorical discernment, because to the astute observer the shape of ones eloquence was perhaps the most reliable indicator of the hearts piety or, alternatively, of demonry. To understand the periods tenor, we must understand...

There has been a distinct trend in modern thought to be deeply suspicious and critical of the human minds ability to gain genuine access to any reality that transcends the world or the mind. As such, much modern reflection on the minds relationship to a transcendent God has either banished God from the realm of the cognitively accessible or found ways to evacuate God of his transcendence, and reduce God to a concept or idea in the mind. In thi...

Faithfully Seeking Understanding provides a first-hand opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative theologian of the renowned Catholic Tbingen School. This volume presents selected essays spanning Kuhns lengthy career. They are organized topically and edited by Grant Kaplan to give readers an approachable introduction to his thought.

Twenty-first-century society faces profound challenges, and the future seems anything but secure. The rapid advance of technology has far outpaced mankinds moral and religious development. There is greater material wealth now than in past centuries, yet poverty remains an international problem. Wars persist and global peace seems increasingly unattainable as terrorism and civil strife become more prevalent. Numerous forms of entertainment made...

This is the fourth of five volumes of Rettig's translation of St Augustine's "Tractates on the Gospel of St John". In the "Tractates", Augustine progressively comments on the Gospel text, amplifying the orthodox doctrinal and moral lessons to be read there.

In his preaching, St Augustine developed an oratorical style based on the classical rhetoric he had learned prior to his conversion which he adapted to the unique demands of Christian preaching. He still recognised the classical ends of rhetoric: to teach, to please and to persuade. He gave, however, the place of most importance to content: what was said was more important than how it was said. The result is a method of preaching that is clear...

Illuminates the lives of several key figures involved in the modernist movement - the movement for intellectual and structural renewal in turn-of-the-century Catholicism.

Blessings were an integral and vital element of medieval Christian life and worship. Benedictions for homes and workplaces, the knight and the pilgrim, the city under siege, and the fetus in the womb, are but a small sample of the multitudinous and fascinating extra-sacramental blessings that fill the leaves of the liturgical books of the medieval Latin Church. While commonly acknowledged as a crucial element in the life of medieval people, th...