The Song of Songs is a song of love; it is also a song of the body, masculine and feminine, that praises its members, one by one. Over time, the vigilance of its Christian readers drew from the Song a powerful and differentiated logic and symbolism of the body. This book studies the meaning and constitution of this symbolic logic, from the origins ......
The Song of Songs is a song of love; it is also a song of the body, masculine and feminine, that praises its members, one by one. Over time, the vigilance of its Christian readers drew from the Song a powerful and differentiated logic and symbolism of the body. This book studies the meaning and constitution of this symbolic logic, from the origins ......
Church and Secularity in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope BenedictXVI
Interpreting the Signs of the Times is a collection of essays inspired by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI's theology of the Church. The essays, delivered at the Conference of the Pope's Vatican Foundation held at Franciscan University of Steubenville, capture the depth and significance of his grand vision, and apply it to the significant issues ......
Surely it can be said that our current era is marked by unprecedented confusion concerning the nature of man and woman. Dangerous distortions of the foundations of personal identity are spreading and appear to be accelerating, leading to tragic consequences for our culture and our children. Society today lacks an adequate appreciation of what is ......
In a series of specially commissioned essays, an international team of scholars examine both Platonism's metaphysical principles (the One or the Form of the Good and the Indefinite Dyad: the principles that account for unity and multiplicity) and the tradition's role as a source for ethical and political principles. In honor of Lloyd Gerson's ......
For well over a thousand years, from its composition in the early fifth century, the Psychomachia, the great allegory of moral strife within the divided soul by Latin poet Prudentius, remained a fountainhead of poetic and artistic inspiration-Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton all were touched and deeply influenced by it; countless images from ......
Narrative verse, or poems that tell a story, has existed for millennia, yet the mode of writing has been neglected by literary publishers, editors, and critics in our own time. This anthology reestablishes the vital relationship of narrative verse to a contemporary readership of poetry. It presents a wide range of specimens from twenty-eight poets ......
