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Part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today.
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Two questions regarding contemporary theological and philosophical studies are often overlooked: ""Is God infinite or finite?"" and ""What... Læs mere
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Approaches some of Chaucer's most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one's will to a law?
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Explores how medieval ideas about the body and gender inspired Boccaccio's vernacular and Latin writings. This study revises modern scholarship by showing that Boccaccio's texts were informed by contemporary ideas about allegory, gender, and theology.
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The principle of double effect has a long history, from scholastic disputations about self-defense and scandal to debates about terrorism, torture, euthanasia, and... Læs mere
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Examines Maurice Blondel's work, the historical and theological development of the idea of tradition in modern Catholicism, tradition's relation to reason... Læs mere
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Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families - through nature... Læs mere
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In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement's... Læs mere
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Among the challenges for democracies in Latin America and Southern Europe are weakened political parties, politicized... Læs mere
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Drawing on the wealth of Maritain materials at the Kolbsheim archives, many of which are unpublished, Jean-Luc Barré offers a clear and objective account... Læs mere
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This collection of historical work assesses the current state of ecumenical relations more than three decades after the Second Vatican Council. The work offers realistic judgements about future prospects for greater Christian unity.
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. This volume gives an account of Galileo and his turbulent relationship with the... Læs mere