Argues that rather than an ancient text from the ancestors of living Indigenous people, the Book of Mormon is a nineteenth-century commentary about living Indigenous peoples of America told as if it were coming from the voices of the dead.
Argues that rather than an ancient text from the ancestors of living Indigenous people, the Book of Mormon is a nineteenth-century commentary about living Indigenous peoples of America told as if it were coming from the voices of the dead.
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 ......
A study of the life and work of Gordon Zahn (1918-2007), one of the most significant and formative figures in the history of the US Catholic peace movement. During World War II, Zahn was one of only a handful of US Catholic conscientious objectors, an experience that first put him in contact with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Following the ......
The Tabernacle and the Architecture of Medieval Theology
Scholarly academics, cloistered monks, and high-ranking prelates once found abundantly fertile material for theological reflection in the Exodus descriptions of Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. Where traditional scholarly accounts of the rise of scholasticism tend to focus almost entirely on the incorporation of Aristotelian thought and the ......
Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds
Constructing Space interrogates the religious worldviews about and experiences with place among a half dozen religious communities: Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, LDS, Branch Davidians, FLDS, Adidam.
Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds
Constructing Space interrogates the religious worldviews about and experiences with place among a half dozen religious communities: Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, LDS, Branch Davidians, FLDS, Adidam.
Together with its sequel The Dividing of Christendom, this book was the fruit of the Harvard lectures that Christopher Dawson delivered as the first occupant of the Charles Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Studies from 1958-1962. Here, as in all his works, he sees religion as the dynamic element of culture. This work traces the ......
While much attention has rightly been given to abuse survivors and institutional accountability, less has been said about how the sexual abuse crisis has shaped the experience of clergy themselves. Drawing on findings from the National Study of Catholic Priests (NSCP)-the most comprehensive survey of American priests in over 50 years- Rebuilding ......
