This collection of essays, commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ...

In this graceful, deeply learned book Steven Chase takes readers on a contemplative and theological journey into the angelic wisdom at the heart of the ...

Central to the question of how to promote economic growth in Latin America is the role different types of regimes play in determining economic performance. ...

In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary ...

Written for undergraduates, the educated layperson, and scholars in fields other than philosophy, The Myth of Religious Neutrality offers a radical reinterpretation ...

Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast ...

In this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age , Angus Ritchie claims that our current ...

In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction , Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in ...

Since the publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez's 1973 groundbreaking work, A Theology of Liberation , much has been written on liberation theology ...

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third." Understanding Dante attempts to explain and justify T. S. Eliot's bold ...