Throughout the history of Christendom, the Lord's Prayer has held a special place of honour in Church liturgy, in the sacraments of baptism and eucharist in particular, and also in devotional prayer. This book presents an exposition of the Our Father as a text worthy of inspiring mind and heart.
The University of Notre Dame held a symposium on value distribution in several complex variables in 1990. Its purpose was to reflect the growth of this field from its beginning nearly 60 years ago as well as its connections to related areas. These proceedings present the lectures.
The 21 essays collected in this volume of "Midwest Studies in Philosophy" question and debate the primary assumptions of science. These are its conception of an orderly universe; its ability to define; and its ability to explain. The contributors approach these topics from varying perspectives, including the historic development of our ......
"Beyond Reaganomics", a sequel to "An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics", provides an assessment of recent economic policies through the Reagan administration years, placing them in an analytical as well as ethical context. The volume begins by providing an overview of different approaches to understanding how the economy works and an ......
"Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Volume 1" initiates an annual journal devoted to original studies of medieval philosophy and theology. Encouraging a broad range of topics and approaches, it seeks to stimulate conversation and exchange across modern disciplinary boundaries and among contrasting, sometimes competing, scholarly methodologies and ......
Christian Reflections on the Foundations of Ethics
An introduction to ethical theory from a Christian perspective, The Shape of the Good examines the connection between moral theory, theology, metaphysics and approaches standard ethical theories from the standpoint of Christian theology.
In Faithful Persuasion David S. Cunningham offers the contemporary era's first sustained account of the relationship between rhetoric and Christian theology. Cunningham argues that Christian thinkers should abandon their attempts to codify argumentation within the canons of formal logic and suggests that they should instead come to a more organic ......
The central theme in any history of texts and books must be that of change and renewal: Parchment that is written on, in one set of circumstances in late antiquity, may in the Early Middle Ages be scraped clean and written on again, leaving evidence of a civilization in which blank parchment is more valuable than ancient literature. A manuscript ......
Numerous studies have examined technological advances and their effects on industry, urbanization, social and economic shifts in power and expertise. "Action into Nature" assesses technology as the constitutional or political essence of the contemporary world. Drawing upon and expanding the work of political theorists such as Eric Voegelin, Leo ......
