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  • 1

    Book Chapter

    Author(s):
    Douglas Hyde
    Subject(s):
    Communism, Leadership
    Abstract:

    On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote “the end” to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife and children, was joining the Catholic Church.

    The long pilgrimage from Communism to Christ carried Douglas Hyde from complete commitment to Marxism, to a questioning uneasiness about Soviet R…

    Date Published:
    1994-03-21
    Date Created:
    1994-03-21
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Tomáš Halík
    Subject(s):
    Love--Religious aspects--Christianity, God (Christianity)--Love, Christianity and culture
    Abstract:

    In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tom\00E1\0161 Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love, meditating on a statement attributed to St. Augustine-amo, volo ut sis, “I love you: I want you to be”-and its importance for contemporary Christian practice. Halík suggests that because Go…

    Date Published:
    2016-08-15
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    2016-08-15
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Stephen M. Barr
    Subject(s):
    Physics--Religious aspects--Christianity
    Abstract:

    A considerable amount of public debate and media print has been devoted to the “war between science and religion.” In his accessible and eminently readable new book, Stephen M. Barr demonstrates that what is really at war with religion is not science itself, but a philosophy called scientific materialism. Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cos…

    Date Published:
    2003-02-28
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    2003-02-28
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Thomas Aquinas
    Subject(s):
    Apologetics--Early works to 1800
    Abstract:

    The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the Summa Aquinas works to save and purify the thought of the Greeks and the Arabs in the higher light of Christian Re…

    Date Published:
    1975-05-01
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    1975-05-01
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Josef Pieper
    Subject(s):
    Cardinal Virtues
    Abstract:

    In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.

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    Date Published:
    1990-03-31
    Date Created:
    1990-03-31
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Stanley Hauerwas
    Subject(s):
    Christian ethics
    Abstract:

    Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the necessity of a historic community and tradition for morality. Hauerwas systematically develops the importance of character and virtue as elements of decision making and spirituality and stresses n…

    Date Published:
    1991-08-31
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    1991-08-31
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  • 7

    Book Chapter

    Author(s):
    Thomas Aquinas
    Subject(s):
    Happiness--Moral and ethical aspects--Early works to 1800, Christian ethics--Early works to 1800
    Abstract:

    The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate.

    This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker’s endur…

    Date Published:
    1984-01-01
    Date Created:
    1984-01-01
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    Book Chapter
  • Author(s):
    Maurice Blondel
    Subject(s):
    Act (Philosophy), Ethics, Life
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    Action was once a prominent theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time Maurice Blondel came to focus on it for his own philosophical reflection, it had all but disappeared from the philosophical vocabulary. It is no longer possible or legitimate to ignore action in philosophy as it was in France when Blondel appeared on the scene in 1882, when at the age of 21 he f…

    Date Published:
    1984-11-30
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    2016-05-31
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  • Author(s):
    John Henry Cardinal Newman
    Subject(s):
    Theism, Faith
    Abstract:

    This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Because of the informal, non-technical character of Newman’s work, it still retains its immediacy as an invaluable guide to the nature of religious belief. A new introduction by Nicholas Lash revi…

    Date Published:
    1992-10-31
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    2016-03-15
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  • Author(s):
    Jill DeTemple
    Subject(s):
    Community development--Religious aspects--Christianity, Church work with the poor--Ecuador, Ecuador--Church history, Community development--Ecuador
    Abstract:

    Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador, Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious pe…

    Date Published:
    2012-11-15
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    2016-03-15
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  • Author(s):
    Mary F. Thurlkill
    Subject(s):
    Shīʻah--Doctrines--History, Fāṭimah, -632 or 633, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500
    Abstract:

    Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi'ite Islam. The book explores the proliferation of Marian imagery in Late Antiquity through the Church fathers and popular hagiography. It examines how Merovingian authors assimilated powerful quee…

    Date Published:
    2008-01-14
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    2016-03-15
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  • Author(s):
    Michaël de Saint Cheron, Elie Wiesel
    Subject(s):
    Peace, Authors, American--20th century--Interviews, Authors, French--20th century--Interviews, Wiesel, Elie, 1928---Interviews, Civilization, Modern--20th century
    Abstract:

    A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Philippe de Saint-Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potential for self-destruction. Wiesel offers wise counsel in …

    Date Published:
    2000-03-15
    Date Created:
    2016-03-15
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