Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel, and Their Contemporaries
Immanuel Kant, the Prussian thinker at the forefront of the German Enlightenment, decisively shaped what is arguably the central philosophical legacy of his era, a legacy of critical rationality and ethico-political self-determination. In ""Philosophical Legacies"", Daniel O. Dahlstrom brings exceptional scholarship to an examination of the ......
Abbo of Fleury was a prominent churchman of late tenth-century France - abbot of a major monastery, leader in the revival of learning in France and England, and the subject of a serious work of hagiography. Elizabeth Dachowski's study presents a coherent picture of this multifaceted man with an emphasis on his political alliances and the political ......
From the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and conceptualized in the early Christian centuries (AD 100--600). During this crucial period, just after the New Testament writings were composed, ......
Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy
The Perspective Of The Acting Person introduces readers to one of the most important and provocative thinkers in contemporary moral philosophy. In this collection of essays Martin Rhonheimer examines the central themes of natural law, moral action, and virtue emphasized by John Paul II's 1993 encyclical ""Veritatis Splendor"". Rhonheimer's work ......
Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition
In ""The Encyclical Fides Et Ratio"", Pope John Paul II called upon teachers of philosophy ""to recover, in the flow of an enduringly valid philosophical tradition, the range of authentic wisdom and truth."" ""Understanding Our Being"" responds to this call with a much-needed introduction to speculative philosophy.Written as an undergraduate ......
The Library of Early Christianity will be a permanent enterprise that publishes one new volume approximately every other year. The Library will publish texts in the original ancient languages of both East and West - Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, and Georgian - accompanied by contemporary English translations printed on ......
The Library of Early Christianity will be a permanent enterprise that publishes one new volume approximately every other year. The Library will publish texts in the original ancient languages of both East and West - Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, and Georgian - accompanied by contemporary English translations printed on ......
Marie de France and The Poetics of Memory presents the first exhaustive treatment of the rhetorical use of description and memory in all the narrative works of the late 12th-century poet, Marie de France - the first woman to compose literary texts in French. Though she had no access to treatises devoted solely to the arts of memory that were to ......
Victor Joseph Reed and Oklahoma Catholicism, 1905-1971
Between 1958 AND 1971, Catholics in Oklahoma emerged from the sheltered world of the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church. Under assault from divisive cultural forces within American society at large, many responded to the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council by embracing a wholesale transformation of the way in which the Church functioned in ......
