Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley
Rene Girard was one of the most influential interdisciplinary thinkers of the 20th century. His mimetic theory-which argues that human desire is fundamentally imitative and that rivalry and conflict arise from this imitation-cuts across philosophy, anthropology, history, literary criticism, theology, and more. To manage the destructive potential ......
Pierre de Berulle (1575-1629) is one of the foremost personalities of early modern Catholicism. As the founder of the "French school" of spirituality, he has exercised a profound influence on the Church from the seventeenth century to the present day. Until now, however, very little of Berulle's writings have been available in English. This volume ......
St. Thomas Aquinas never wrote a commentary on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed it, so that the words of the Song are for him a familiar repertoire and a theological source. His work contains numerous citations of the Song, not counting his borrowings of vocabulary and ......
Edith Stein's life and thought intersect with many important movements of life and thought in the twentieth century. Through her life and eventual martyrdom, she gave witness to the primacy of truth and faith in the face of political totalitarianism, and in her philosophical works, she contributed to a synthesis of phenomenological thought with ......
Medieval Theories of Divine Ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham
A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has perfect knowledge and that he is supremely simple and one. In articulating a theory of divine ideas, Carl Vater answers two sorts of questions. ......
Modern psychology has garnered an abundance of data, but how do the discrete studies of psychology fit together into a clear picture of the human person. Chesterton quips, "...what is pompously called induction is simply collecting more of the data. And Aristotle or Aquinas, or anybody in his five wits, would of course agree that the conclusion ......
Christians express love of neighbor as one's self - agape - by physically caring for the imago Dei, the image of God each human being is. They especially do so by caring for the sick. Indeed, Jesus' early followers uniquely cared for victims of plague, in stark contrast to pagans. Thus, they followed Jesus' command to love both God and neighbor - ......
Primeras Cartas a La Corona Y Al Consejo Para La Reforma De Las Indias
Bartolome de las Casas began his transatlantic career in 1502. Experiences of conquest and penitential discipline led him to renounce his Indian slaves and holdings. He dedicated his life to reforming Spain's colonial project, eventually joining the Dominicans, and later serving as bishop. His works are foundational for our understanding of early ......
The In De Ente et Essentia is a polemical work of a brilliant young Dominican professor, Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1469-1534), eager to defend the philosophical legacy of Thomas Aquinas. Drawing from the full range of St. Thomas's writings, the work offers a coherent Thomistic metaphysical theory set against the rival Scotist and Averroist positions ......
