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Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticises and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare's theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare's work in the 'radical middle', the dialectical opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can flourish.

The Apocalypse or Book of Revelation is one of the most frequently discussed books of the biblical canon and arguably one of the most difficult to interpret. This volume contains three texts as examples of late ancient Christian interpretation of its intriguing visions.

Provides a theological biography of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) that reconstructs the most formative period in his development: the years between his teenage conversion to evangelicalism in 1816 and the beginning of the Tractarian Movement in 1833.

Presents a philosophical portrait of human persons on which we are entirely irreducible to anything non-personal, by synthesizing claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition. These include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle theologie, analytic philosophy, Greek and Russian thought, and several others.

The great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros has long been known for his novels. However, he also wrote short stories. Although there is no question that Eca owes the lion's share of his reputation to his long fiction, this collection shows us that we are reading the work of a writer in full control of both genres.

Bruno composed one of the most important historical works treating the tumultuous period in the history of the German kingdom in the second half of the eleventh century. Bruno's main focus in his Saxon War is the civil wars that engulfed the German kingdom from the mid 1060s through the end of the 1080s.

Drawing upon Scripture, tradition, history, theology and empirical evidence, Helen Alvare frames a complete, inspiring and appealing response to current laws' attempts to impose a new sexual orthodoxy upon Catholic institutions, clarifying the 'ecclesial' nature of Catholic schools, hospitals and social services.

In his contemplative works on nature, Aristotle twice appeals to the general principle that being is better than not being. Taking his cue from this claim, Christopher Mirus offers an extended, systematic account of how Aristotle understands being itself to be good.

'Victim of history', 'a martyr from behind the Iron Curtain', 'the Hungarian Gandhi' - these are just some of the epithets which people used to describe Cardinal Mindszenty, archbishop of Esztergom, who was the last Hungarian prelate to use the title of prince primate.

Regarding Mary's status as Mother of God, Rene Laurentin's discussion of the Theotokos exhibits his deep ecumenical commitments, as much as his specific attention to Mary's soteriological role as a sticking point for Protestantism.

When Martin Luther distributed his 95 Theses on indulgences on October 31, 1517, he set in motion a chain of events that profoundly transformed the face of Western Christianity. The 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses offered an opportunity to reassess the meaning of that event.

Presents a captivating study of long-held medieval scientific theories that predisposed Jews to certain types of offensive behaviour or even to communicate certain illnesses and disease. By arguing for a Jewish 'nature' dictated by specific physical characteristics, medieval scientific authorities contributed to growing fears of a Jewish threat.

The essays in this book are an attempt to blend the philosophical approaches of Aristotle and Husserl, the classical and the modern, to help us appreciate what Aristotle called 'being as the true', and to show how the human person is involved in this enterprise.

The stated goal of concerned Catholics in the 1920s and 1930s was to 'rechristianize society'. This book narrates the history of industrial labour movements of Catholic inspiration in the period from the onset of World War I to the reconstruction after World War II.

Employing a dialogic movement between the inductive-exegetical and the deductive-dogmatic, Gregory Vall offers nine studies that bring to the surface issues such as the relationship between Old Testament and New Testament, literal sense and spiritual sense, and Scripture and Tradition.

Often cited as a source of biographical information on ancient Christian authors, On Illustrious Men provides St. Jerome's personal evaluations of his forebears and contemporaries, as well as catalogs of patristic writings known to him. Heterodox writers and certain respected non-Christians (Seneca, Josephus, and Philo) are included in this parade of luminaries, which begins with the apostles and concludes with St. Jerome himself and a list of his own works prior to 393, the year in which On Illustrious Men was composed. St. Jerome produced this work in his monastery at Bethlehem, to which he had retreated after his precipitous exit from Roman ecclesiastical politics. He had, however, maintained correspondences with several of his former associates, such as Dexter (the son of Pacian, bishop of Barcelona), to whom he addressed the work. Relying heavily on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, St. Jerome attempts to demonstrate the erudition and nobility of character which render Christianity immune to the criticisms of its cultured despisers. Since this work can be regarded as the patrology textbook of its day, its translator, Thomas P. Halton, has continued St. Jerome's mission by compiling bibliographical data on recent editions, translations, and studies of ancient writings mentioned in On Illustrious Men. Extensive footnote material and appendices furnish a wealth of information useful for patristic research. In addition, an index to all of the Fathers of the Church volumes published to date, listed by individual authors, appears in this, the hundredth volume of the series.

This volume presents the earliest and most important life of Gregory Thaumaturgus, preached by St. Gregory of Nyssa, and all the works that can be attributed to Gregory Thamumaturgus himself. It includes his Address of Thanksgiving to his teacher Origen; his Christian adaptation and interpretation of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes; his regulations restoring order in the Christian community after an invasion by the Goths; a remarkable treatise on God's ability to suffer and another on the Trinity; and two small texts that may or may not have been written by him.

Declared a Doctor of the Church in 2012, St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is one of the most remarkable figures of medieval Latin Christianity. Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works is the culmination of the Visionary's Doctor's theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation.

Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria (412-444), is best known as a protagonist in the christological controversy of the second quarter of the fifth century. Readers may be surprised therefore to find such polemic absent from this early work on the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament. Cyril appears in this work as a balanced commentator, eclectic in his attitude and tolerant of alternative views.

"Caryll Houselander (deceased) is a woman author featured in the Catholic Women Series, which re-publishes books by previously well-known Catholic women writers that have fallen out of print. The Dry Wood is a novel set in a post-war London Docklands parish. A story about a motley group of souls mourning the loss of their parish priest. This novel is a profound meditation on the purpose of human suffering"--

Presents history of prominent Medieval and Renaissance Thomists' efforts to solve three distinct but interrelated problems arising from their reading both of Aquinas's own texts on analogy, and from John Duns Scotus's arguments against analogy and in favour of univocity in Metaphysics and Natural Theology.

Explores the theological understanding of the homily, lessons from classical and contemporary rhetoric, the relevance of preaching for the life of the Church, highlighting recent teachings of the Magisterium, and it presents the incarnation as the foundation for preaching, understood as an essential aspect of the priestly life and mission.

Attempts to develop a wisdom about human life that takes the form of a theory of selfhood and to reflect on what is called for in the ethical practice of human existence. The ethical implications of this theory of selfhood are explored, looking at conscience, prudential reasoning, justice, friendship, the law, temperance, courage, and religion.

Demonstrates that the philosophical principles developed in the Catholic tradition, especially as articulated in Thomism, provide the intellectual foundation for belief in God and are also the only reliable basis for a fully coherent vision of man's place in the world.

Establishes how English historian Christopher Dawson's simple definition of culture as a 'common way of life' reconciles intellectualist and behavioural approaches to culture. In addition, Dawson's cultural mind provides a synthesis helpful for recognising the importance of Christian culture in education.

Shows that the paradox at the heart of St Peter Damian's life and everything he cared about was rooted in the remarkable theology of love which finds expression across the whole of his work and gives it both coherence and dynamism.

Every discipline, including theology, requires a synthetic overview of its acquisitions and open questions, a kind of ""topography"" to guide the new student and refresh the gaze of specialists. In his Synthese dogmatique, Fr. Jean-Herve Nicolas, OP (1910-2001) presents just such a map of Thomistic theology.

Explores Thomas Aquinas's philosophical thinking about evil, and brings the results into discussion with the contemporary theodicies - philosophies of the problem of evil. It examines the relation of the human person and human nature to nature as a whole.

In this magisterial work, Michele M. Schumacher promotes dialogue between disciples of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (d. 1988) and those of the church's common doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) on a critical theological question. How are analogies and metaphors from the philosophy and theology of the person (anthropology) rightly used to address the mystery of the Trinity?