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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.

Reconsiders and reassesses the work of Allen Tate as a poet whose themes and expression place him among the most studied and canonical Modernists of the last century. John V. Glass III traces the development of Tate's thought and verse from his early years as a student at Vanderbilt in the 1920s through his final terza-rima sequence completed in the 1950s.

Distinguishing between evolutionary theory properly speaking and the materialist attitude that is often conflated with it, Matthew Ramage's work meets the challenge of evolutionary science to Catholic teaching on human origins, guided by Joseph Ratzinger's conviction that faith and evolutionary theory mutually enrich one another.

Intended to promote a more widespread knowledge of the Apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. The Apostolic Constitution provided for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.

Catholic writers have made a rich contribution to British fiction, despite their minority status. Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Muriel Spark are well-known examples, but there are many others. This is the first book to survey the whole range of this material and examine whether valid generalizations can be made about it.

No other theological text polarized the early modern Catholic world as much as Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus. This first-ever translation of some of its central chapters enables historians, philosophers and theologians to finally engage with the founding text of Jansenism.

Offers an unprecedented account of Shakespeare draws upon his civilization's unique culture and illuminates its basic features. Rather than a treatment of all the works, R.V. Young focuses on how some of Shakespeare's best and most well-known plays dramatize the West's conception of social institutions and historical developments.

Proposes a novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. The book does so by analysing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism.

"Bede (672-735) is known primarily as an historian for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but he was also an accomplished pedagogue, hagiographer, and biblical scholar. This book takes a fresh look at this classic Christian thinker, exploring the gamut of Bede's literary corpus. The book investigates key themes, including Bede's understanding of the theological significance of time, his conception of the relationship between the temporal and eternal orders within history, his theological use of rhetoric, his foray into narrative theology, and his spirituality. Bequette's thesis is that Bede was a theologian writing in continuity with the Christian tradition and yet making creative, original contributions to that tradition for the sake of his contemporaries, both in the monastery and in the culture at large"--

Features the entirety of Tertullian's To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian's On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on Augustine's Commentary on Psalm 121.6.

How we became what we are. There are many explanations. One plausible account is found in the work of Rudolph Allers who writes about the European intellectual landscape from 1850 to the opening decades of the twentieth century.

Provides a perceptive and original study of the evolution of orphanages in the Byzantine Empire. After a thorough discussion of each element of the Byzantine child care system, the book closes by showing how Byzantine orphanages provided models for later Western group homes, especially in Italy.

Affirms both the historical legitimacy and the interpretive benefits of reading Troilus and Criseyde as if the text were initially composed for Chaucer's own recital before a familiar audience.

Unties some of the knots that face us when we reflect on the God of biblical Revelation. In each of the essays gathered here, Fr. Emmanuel Durand sympathetically articulates the tensions and apparent contradictions experienced by contemporary minds as they strive to understand the revealed truth of God.

Brings together contributions from various expert scholars to explore the pluralism that exists within medieval reflection on natural law. The book is the first to study the relation between the natural law theories of these various traditions of medieval philosophy: Jewish, Islamic, Byzantine, and Latin.

The presentation of the life and work of any great thinker is a formidable task. This volume provides readers with a detailed, scholarly, and profound account of the thirteenth-century theologian whose works have not ceased to draw the attention of both friend and foe.

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.

Examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St Bonaventure through Ockham). This is the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period.

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.

Fresh translations of Meister Eckhart's sermons are made available in this volume: three for the first time in English and sixteen others for the first time since C. de B. Evans translated them in 1924 and 1931, long before critical editions of the manuscripts were published in 2003. Other important sermons are also included in the translations.

Presents essays authored by eleven world-renowned theologians. Each contribution originated as a public lecture addressed to theologians and an educated general audience, followed by a private colloquium in which the lecturers conferred with scholars who are experts in the field.

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.

Provids a narrative case study of the 'Heresy' Affair at the University of Dayton, a series of events predominantly in the philosophy department that occurred when tensions between the Thomists and proponents of new philosophies reached crisis stage in fall 1966.

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.

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.

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.

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.