In seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist
movement and of its adherents’ resistance to church and throne. Three abbesses from the Arnauld family spearheaded this resistance: Mère Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661), Mère ...
The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 presents a thorough discussion of the six principal
writers of the Catholic revival in English literatureNewman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, and Waugh. Beginning with Newman’s conversion in 1845 and ending with Waugh’s completion ...
Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple is a concise introduction to the Christian theology of
salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In this cogent study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of which corresponds ...
Cicero’s Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest
in Cicero’s political thought. Its nine original essays by a multidisciplinary group of distinguished international scholars manifest close study of Cicero’s philosophical writings and great ...
Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century:
the man who countered Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and Lautréamont, who gave eloquent voice to the generation of '68, ...
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously
published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. Ó Cathasaigh has been called ...
Among the many fruitful and challenging sites for mutual engagement of theology and philosophy, the
renewed study of St. Thomas Aquinas has proven to be both lively and controversial. Given particular impetus in recent years by the widespread assessment of ...
Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles
at the subnational level, she assesses how increased electoral competition alters the long-term distribution of power across political institutions in ways that shift power away ...