Two Catholics and a Protestant attempt an unbiased examination of what biblical texts have to say about homosexuality, in an analysis that even looks at Jesus's own sexual orientation and attitudes to
St. Thomas Aquinas produced his Commentary on the Romans near the end of his life while working on the Summa theologiae and commentingon Aristotle. The doctrinal richness of Paul's Letter to the Roman
Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168--1253) was an unusual and exceptional man:from the lowest social class yet greatly admired by kings and popes; ascientist but also a philosopher and theologian; a talented
For medieval Latin Christendom, authoritative texts such as the Bible and the writings of the Fathers of the Church provided a skeleton that gave form to Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism. Eye
In a series of essays based on surviving documents of actual court practicesfrom Perugia and Bologna, as well as laws, statutes, and theoreticalworks from the 12th and 13th centuries, Massimo Valleran
Reading the Cosmos continues and extends Jacques Maritain's spiriteddefense of natural philosophy as indispensable for an adequateaccount of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from such seminalwor
St. Thomas Aquinas's holiness did not flower alongside his endeavor as a theologian or in isolation from it. Rather, it was a fruit of his practice of theology and the asceticism proper to magnanimous
When first published in 1928, The Age of the Gods was hailed as thebest short account of what is known of pre-historic man and culture.In it, Christopher Dawson synthesized modern scholarship on human
Surveying many of Plato's dialogues from the early, middle, and lateperiods, prominent philosopher John M. Rist shows how Plato graduallyrealized the need for metaphysics to support his ethical positi
The scholarly tradition of the Presocratics is the beginning of the "Greek Miracle," the remarkable flowering of arts and sciences in ancient Greece from the 600s to 400s BC. Greek thought turned from
Over the past half century the language of human rights has gained such dominance in moral, civic, and ecclesiastical discourse that ethical and social questions are increasingly framed in terms of ri
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is one of the most studied but least understood popes of the twentieth century while his pontificate remains the most turbulent and controversial. Although there is a g
In the midst of anti-religious sentiment, how are Christians to accept the type of freedom offered by modern psychology? Renowned theologian Benedict Ashley presents a Christian view of the human pers
Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual c
This book goes behind the headlines on the Catholic Church in the United States to explore some of the principles and philosophical sources to which Popes, Bishops, Priests, Religious, and laity appea
While creatively drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas, Jacques Maritain made the problem of evil a life-long philosophical inquiry. Indeed, Maritain tells us in his God and the Permission of Evil (1966) th
This book presents the first full-scale study of the Tractatus de penitentia (C.33 q.3) in Gratian's Decretum, which became the textbook for canon law and served as the basis of the church's developin
Biblical and Theological Foundations of the Family argues that the family has a constitutive nature and a specific theological purpose, which God reveals in the church. Joseph Atkinson investigates t
Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still all
