A long-awaited English translation of a landmark work in modern Catholic thought that powerfully reframes Catholicism as a living tradition. On the Spirit and Essence of Catholicism presents the first English-language translation of Johann Sebastian Drey's influential 1819 essays about Catholic Christianity. The founder of the Catholic Tuebingen ......
In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. ......
For over two centuries, the Daughters of Charity, a community of Catholic sisters whose principal occupation was to serve the sick poor, significantly contributed to the formation and development of U.S. hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Donning their large white-winged cornettes, the Daughters served the sick poor during wars and ......
Catholicism, Apartheid, and Diplomacy in South Africa
A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann. Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann's personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907-1994), a pivotal yet often overlooked figure in twentieth-century South ......
Peter Furlong presents the first systematic study of Thomas Aquinas's account of moral responsibility. Aquinas on Moral Responsibility explores how Aquinas understands what it means to be morally responsible. Rather than focusing narrowly on freedom of the will alone, Furlong reconstructs Aquinas's view by examining the practices through which we ......
A groundbreaking history that illuminates Catholic sisters at the center of the Catholic Church's encounter with Nazism. Faith under Fascism: Catholic Sisters in Nazi Germany reveals the vital role women religious played in confronting, navigating, and ultimately outlasting the Third Reich. Focusing on the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Martina ......
Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right
A compelling and necessary history of how the American conservative movement lost its philosophical compass-and why it must be recovered. In Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, Stephanie Slade tells the story of a forgotten idea that once defined American conservatism. In the years following World War II, the ......
A critical edition of a never-before-published Italian text likely to be the original version of the influential masterpiece, The Meditations on the Life of Christ. The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and ......
Scholarly attempts to understand Islam in the West over the past several years have failed to take Islamic theology seriously. This book engages Islam from deep within the Christian tradition by addressing the question of the prophethood of Muhammad. Anna Bonta Moreland calls for a retrieval of Thomistic thought on prophecy to view Muhammad within ......
