An Historical Study with Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri's""Monarchia"", Guido Vernani's ""Refutation of the Monarchia Composed by Dante"", and Pope John XXII's ""Bull Si Fratrum
The Monarchia Controversy provides both the background to the imperial and ecclesiastical machinations that drove Dante Alighieri to begin penning the Monarchia in 1318 and also the subsequent history of the efforts by papal authorities to ban the book after the writer's death. Dante's political treatise on the Empire and the Papacy was listed by ......
Until recently, theologians have been in a deep slumber about the subject of vocations. This volume represents one of the first awakenings in the theolgical community to this subject. The ten contributors, all theologians at Loyola University, Chicago, present original essays that explore vocations, or callings. As reflected in the diverse ......
When Innocent III became pope in 1198 he announced that he had been elevated to a position ""between God and man"". This audacious claim has often been quoted to characterize the papal monarchy over which he presided and the secular powers he wielded for the 18 years of his controversial tenure. The sermons presented in this collection cast a ......
Since his debut on the Irish theatre scene with ""The Factory Girls"" (1982), Frank McGuinness has been his generation's most prolific and significant playwright, earning applause and awards throughout the English-speaking world (and beyond) for such plays as ""Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme"" (1984) and ""Someone Who'll ......
Steeped in Greek Christian writings, Ambrose, Bishop of Milan in the fourth century, is known for (among other achievements) his allegorical exegesis of the Old Testament. This volume offers English translations of Ambrose's interpretations of three stories in the Old Testament: of the six days of creation, of the Fall (Adam and Eve's loss of ......
This translation makes available 19 orations by the 4th-century Cappadocian Father Gregory of Nazianzus. These homilies span all the phases of Gregory's ecclesiastical career, beginning with his service as a parish priest assisting his father, the elder Gregory, in his hometown of Nazianzus in the early 360s, to his stormy tenure as bishop of ......
In Personalist Papers, John F. Crosby continues the discussion of Christian personalism begun in his highly acclaimed book, The Selfhood of the Human Person. Trained in phenomenology, Crosby stays close to our experience of persons, so that what he says finds a deep resonance in the personal existence of the reader. In his exceptionally clear ......
Honouring distinguished philosopher and professor Robert Sokolowski for his work in phenomenology, the essays included in this collection demonstrate the reception and fruitfulness of Sokolowski's analysis of moral action and his idea of a theology of disclosure.
This volume provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors have considered Aristotelian issues in late scholastic, Renaissance, and early modern philosophers such as Vernia, Nifo, Barbaro, Cajetan, Piccolomini, ......
