For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire - Constantinople, the "New Rome", or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper rifts, characterized by a long history of conflicts, suspicions, and misunderstandings. ......
Challenge and Gift of Black Folk, Contributions of African American Experience, World View and Thought to Catholic Theology
This text seeks to address the issue of education for African-American Catholics. The book argues for reform in Catholic higher education, suggesting that particular attention be paid to the inclusion and integration of the African-American experience in Catholic theology.
Christian faith is a keyhole through which one may glimpse the meaning of life and death. However this keyhole is not reliable if it is not supported by valid reasons to believe that God exists. This work examines belief systems and why people have turned their backs on God.
Christian Zen is a ground breaking book for all Christians seeking to deepen and broaden their inner lives. Providing concrete guidelines for a way of Christian meditation that incorporates Eastern insights, it is a helpful book that can open new spiritual vistas and reveal profound, often undreamed-of dimensions of the Christian faith.
The Inner Eye of Love offers a contemporary theology of mysticism that locates it at the very center of authentic religious experience. It provides as well a practical guide for meditation even as it maps out the oceanic experience toward which meditation points. Johnston begins with the mystical tradition itself, its roots and origins, its ......
and Commentary on Summa theologiae IIaIIae, 64 (Thomas Aquinas
There are no more current topics of ethical debate than euthanasia, assisted suicide and abortion, more generally, the taking of innocent human life, as well as the morality of capital punishment. Professor Doyle has made VitoriaOs thorough analyses of this basic moral topic, still so much debated in our own times and so central to the Catholic ......
Perspectives of a Primary Relation, Portrayed Through the Work of SorenKierkegaard
This work considers how relevant the mode of existence of a philosopher is to his philosophizing. On the basis of this insight, the work derives an understanding of style that has in view this very correspondence of thought and mode of existence.
This translation of Suarez's 54th Disputation documents the ancient Greek and Medieval sources of his discussion. It also considers Suarez's influence upon hitherto unknown late scholastic writers and the relevance of his intentionality theory to figures such as Descartes and Kant.
Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were written without correspondence at all. This collection of never-before-published letters traces ......
