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Compelling theological questions converge with contemporary concerns in Françoise Breynaert's exposition of the doctrine surrounding Christ's second coming. Why must Christ come again? What will become of this earth as the dominion of man is more and more power concentrated in the hands of the few? Ideologies associated with the pursuit of power promise salvation‿‿of the world, the planet, of humanity itself‿‿through politics, technology, and ...

Re-reading is one of life's joys, " Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great book is inseparable from the endeavor to succeed at being human. The "pull of something old and steady and reliable, the pull to rise to a higher plane" is an important aspect of this experience, where the reader truly "notices" and "connects" with ...

A back-stage tour through the meaning and context of the work of Tobias Smollett, one of Great Britain's finest story-tellers and surprising moralists.

The experience of the global pandemic has made it clear that an absence of personal relations will lead to the takeover of technognosis. The post-modern journey must be made in the spirit of Christian humanism.

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intelligence and enduring influence is in large part reliant on the underlining conservatism that has motivated authors such as Agatha Christie (Black's earlier subject) and Henry Fielding alike.  Fielding's epic comic novel, Tom Jones, is unforgettable for many reasons, but the author must be credited w...

The third and final installment of the Church history 'adventure series', here we meet Augustine and Benedict and see the development of monastic Europe.

A back-stage tour through the meaning and context of the work of Tobias Smollett, one of Great Britain's finest story-tellers and surprising moralists.

Commentary on the present state of liberalism and its crimes against nature and better judgment. Today we live with an 'advanced liberalism' that is not the liberalism of John Stuart Mill.

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Leszek Kolakowski shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin's theory with his own beliefs about the nature of the universe. Bergson believed that time could be thought of in two different ways: as an abstract measuring device used for practical purposes, or as 'duree', the "real" time we actually experience. He also held that all matter is propelled by an internal 'elan vital', or life-drive, and that the life of the universe is const...

Consonant with its commitment to publish seminal works in the field of canon law, St. Augustine's Press is pleased to make available the first volume in a series that will undoubtedly endure as a masterpiece of scholarship. Carlos José Errázuriz, Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome) has provided a comprehensive and insightful treatment of rights, justice, and law in the Catholic Church, beginning with th...

This new edition reintroduces on the central texts of late nineteenth-century political thought. In addition to the fourth and final edition of the Philosophical Theory of the State, the editors have added a comprehensive selection of Bosanquet's most important essays on political theory and social policy. Also added is a detailed new introduction, a guide to further reading, and an index. Together they make clear the social and political back...

Fire and Witness is the second volume in James Patrick's saga recounting the current of inspiration guiding, and at times sweeping, the Christian heart toward full integration of the mind in the experience of revelation. In the first volume, A Waiting World, Patrick like a true storyteller captures the wonder and anxiety that finally perceives design and canon. The second installment presents the parallel struggle to build heart and mind, as h...

In this concise and creative book, Nathan Lefler places G. K. Chesterton and René Girard in conversation on the art of being deceived. The campaign to get rid of (or mythicize) the Judaic and the Christian is not progress, it is a fog. Girard noted early on that returning preeminent status to the Judeo-Christian influence would have the (paradoxical) effect of clearing the air, such that humans might actually breathe and reason well again. Ent...

Robert Shenk is both scholar and teacher of classical rhetoric. Now a member of a dying breed, he was once ignited by the late Edward Corbett (Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student) and after decades of study and research Shenk has written a masterpiece that reintroduces and defines what is known as forestasis in the field of rhetoric. The famous classical concept of rhetorical stasis has three principle components: fact, definition and qu...

Romano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man." Decades after Guardini's assessment, the reader who rediscovers Rilke will find a depth of mind and soul that display a profundity the post-modern reader only thinks he possesses. In an expanded collection o...

Contemporary poet, Paul Murray, writes in the voice of legendary figure Monk Moling, Ireland's own Saint Francis of Assisi.

Christians especially should appreciate and understand poetry given that the Bible is poetry. Poch guides the reader back to this vision of poetry as a source of faith and its objective quality even in revelation.

Kuby analyzes cultural, biological, and sociological data to demonstrate in what way the Western world has marginalized its children. Although a picture of Germany, it can be applied to U.S. society.

Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of literary craft developing alongside global military engagement nearly overshadows the natural draw of the crime drama that is the subject of his book. Indeed, the "prurience and sensationalism" of...