Since the 1960s, philosophers and theologians have begun to give renewed attention to the kinds of issues that natural theology was intended to address. During the past decade, the interest has reached new heights. This collection of essays provides a sample of the current status of natural theology among scholars. The first three essays, by ......
A Guide to the Literature and the Manuscript Collections
This book covers immigrants in the area of origin, on the journey, and at the destination. The work is divided into four sections - bibliography, manuscript collections, government manuscripts and publications, and a statistical overview. It is based on a review of all extant books and journal articles (including theses and dissertations) and a ......
Aiming to provide a complete history of the Catholic Church in modern Peru, this detailed study examines the roots of the Peruvian church from the post-colonial period of the 1820s to the Pope's first visit in 1985. This social history explores the different ways in which the church has responded to political and social movements in Peru since its ......
Madame de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves" has, since its publication in the late 17th century, been subjected to moralistic evaluation that has chastened and maligned the heroine for over three hundred years. The princess has been accused of implausible behaviour, deep-seated egoism, irreligion, obsessive concern with appearances, suicidal ......
Early 12th-century France was a violent and militaristic society dominated by the values of an aggressive class of warriors - a culture divided into those who worked, those who prayed, and those who bore arms. A civilization of extraordinary richness and sophistication emerged, and perhaps no contemporary account describes this development more ......
This final volume of the homilies includes a general index for these volumes and an index of biblical citations, the latter indicating the rich scriptural diet Chrysostom's congregation - who came daily for his homilies - enjoyed.
This volume aims to make available to scholars and students the developing thought of one of the major Augustine scholars of the latter half of this century, John J. O'Meara. The 23 essays of the collection, which originally appeared in a wide variety of journals or proceedings of symposia, are devoted mainly to the philosophical interests that ......
Titus Flavius Clemens Alexandrinus (ca A.D. 150-215) wrote the "Stromateis", possibly the third work in his trilogy - the "Protrepticus", the "Paedagogus", and the "Stromateis" - to direct Christian Gnostics toward the third stage of philosophy - "gnosis". For Clement the only true "gnosis" was that which presupposed the faith of the Church, that ......
