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- The Nature of the Gods by Cicero, translated by Horace C. P. McGregor
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A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
by David Lyle Jeffrey
This is a large and valuable reference work for general readers, students, and scholars. The work contains several hundred articles that explain biblical themes, allusions, names and quotations and describe their appearance in English literature.
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred
by Philip Bess
"The city comes into existence . . . for the sake of the good life." So wrote Aristotle nearly 2,400 years ago, articulating an idea that prevailed throughout most of Western culture and the world until the environmental consequences of…
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J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
by Bradley J. Birzer
Peter Jackson’s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible…
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God and Man at Yale
by William F Buckley
In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into…
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The End of the Modern World
by Romano Guardini
An extended inquiry into the nature of the modern age, as well as an historical, philosophical, and theological analysis of modernity's prospects in the next millennium. This expanded edition includes the original text of The End of the Modern World…
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A Student's Guide to Religious Studies
by Daryl G. Hart
The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the United States' most prestigious…
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Tolerance in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges
by Gerson Moreno-Riano
Tolerance in the 21st Century investigates some of the key philosophical and practical dilemmas surrounding the implementation and realization of tolerance in the 21st century.
- Saint Augustine's Childhood by Saint Augustine
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Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination
by Glenn C. Arbery and William Lynch
Christ and Apollo, originally published in 1960, is a classic of literary criticism, a book that Commonwealth once predicted "may well change the course of literary studies." It did not do that, of course. Its literary, philosophical, and theological presuppositions…
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Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny
by Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler
The rapid spread of the liberal market economy throughout the world poses a host of new and complex questions for the consideration of religious believers, as well as anyone concerned with the intersection of ethics and economics. Is the liberal…
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Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau
by Jean Bernard
In May 1941, Father Jean Bernard was arrested for denouncing the Nazis and deported from his native Luxembourg to Dachau's "Priest Block," a barracks that housed more than 3,000 clergymen of various denominations (the vast majority Roman Catholic priests). Priestblock…
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The Trial of Man: Christianity and Judgement in the World of Shakespeare
by Craig A. Bernthal
Shakespeare often used trials or other scenes in which his characters are subjected to some sort of judgment-especially divine judgment-to convey the meaning of his plays. In The Trial of Man: Christianity and Judgment in the World of Shakespeare, Craig…
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Creation at Risk?: Religion, Science, and Environmentalism
by Michael Cromartie
The environmental movement both echoes and challenges traditional Judeo-Christian views about humankind's proper relationship to the natural world. Ten scholars and activists here explore-and clash over-some of the scientific, religious, moral, philosophical, economic, and political claims advanced by contemporary environmentalists.
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Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature
by Anthony Esolen
In Ironies of Faith, celebrated Dante scholar and translator Anthony Esolen provides a profound meditation upon the use and place of irony in Christian art and in the Christian life. Beginning with an extended analysis of irony as an essentially…
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The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
by Richard M. Gamble
"They died to save their country and they only saved the world." This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton's poem, "The English Graves," serves for Richard M. Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in…
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Ethics After Christendom: Toward an Ecclesial Christian Ethic
by Vigen Guroian
Ethics After Christendom proposes that the special moral challenge facing churches in post-Christian societies is to center Christian ethics ecclesially while also keeping it both evangelical and catholic. Siding with the diagnosis that North American Christendom has drawn to an…
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Rallying The Really Human Things : Moral Imagination In Politics Literature & Everyday Life
by Vigen Guroian
For Vigen Guroian, contemporary culture is distinguished by its relentless assault on the moral imagination. In the stories it tells us, in the way it has degraded courtship and sexualized our institutions of higher education, in the ever-more-radical doctrines of…
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The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World
by Russell Hittinger
In the book's first section, Hittinger defines the natural law, considers its proper relationship to moral theology and the positive law, and explains how and when judges should be guided by natural law considerations. Then, in the book's second section…
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The Way of Life: John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity
by Carson Holloway
The passing of John Paul II provoked questions about the Pope, particularly in his relation to modernity. Was he opposed to the tenets of modernity, as some critics claimed? Or did he accommodate modernity in a way no Pope…
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Patterns or Principles
by Stanley L. Jaki
In this groundbreaking book, Temptleton Prize-winning author Stanley L. Jaki demonstrates that in matters of religion, and science, all is not "relative." Chapters include, "Socrates, or the Baby and the Bathwater," "Determinism and Reality," "Science: Western or What?," and Medieval…
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Essays in Theology of Culture
by Robert W. Jenson
Gilbert Meilaender says: "Here is evidence that serious theology is neither an esoteric nor a purely private undertaking. In learned, provocative, and innovative theological explorations of politics, education, and the arts, Robert Jenson discusses and exemplifies the calling of Christians…
- A Highly Favored Nation: The Bible and Canadian Meaning, 1860-1900 by Preston Jones
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Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader
by James M. Kushiner
Launched in 1987, Touchstone magazine has served as an indispensable forum for the ecumenical consideration of matters of crucial importance to Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians. In Creed & Culture, James M. Kushiner brings together twenty-one essays that originally appeared…
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Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Michael H. Macdonald and Andrew A. Tadie
The essays gathered in Permanent Things remind us that some of the twentieth century's most imaginative minds - G. K. Chesterton, T.S. Elliot, C.S Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Evelyn Waugh - were profoundly at odds with the secularist spirit of…
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Things that Count: Essays Moral and Theological
by Gilbert Meilaender
"How should we live? What kind of people should we be? What meaning is there in our day-to-day existence? What are the truly important things? We live in turbulent times. Torrents of information, fractured families, and politically correct rhetoric color…
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In Defense of Religious Liberty
by David Novak
In Defense of Religious Liberty contains David Novak's vigorous-and paradoxical-argument that the primacy of divine law is the best foundation for a secular, multicultural democracy. Novak presents his claim, which will astound both liberal and conservative advocates of democracy…
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Tradition: Concept and Claim
by Josef Pieper, translated by E. Christian Kopff
Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality in the lives and languages of ordinary people. In the modern world of constant, unrelenting change, tradition, says Pieper, is that which must…
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On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
by James V. Schall S.J
Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian concerns. Though he does not deny the importance…
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The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
by James V. Schall S.J
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but…
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Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought, Revised Edition
by Christopher Shannon
From Amazon: Originally published in 1996 and newly revised, Conspicuous Criticism is a ringing defense of the need for religion and tradition in contemporary society. Writing with moral passion and critical verve, Christopher Shannon offers a convincing indictment of the…
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From Under the Rubble
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and six dissident colleagues joined in the mid-1970s to write this book, which surely remains the most extraordinary debate of a nation's future published in modern times. Shattering a half-century of silence, From Under the Rubble constitutes a…
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A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There Is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless
by Eduardo Velásquez
What accounts for the apocalyptic angst that is now so clearly present among Americans who do not subscribe to any religious orthodoxy? Why do so many popular television shows, films, and music nourish themselves on this very angst? And why…
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The New Religious Humanists: A Reader
by Gregory Wolfe
The New Religious Humanists: A Reader brings together a noteworthy group of distinguished scholars and authors who seek to heal our cultural divisions with insights from the Judeo-Christian humanist tradition. Contributors such as Leon Kass, Robert Royal, Os Guinness, Wilfred…
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Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography
by Gregory Wolfe
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British writer and social critic, was one of the most brilliant controversialists and media personalities of his generation. Gregory Wolfe's acclaimed biography draws on unpublished diaries, correspondence, interviews, and Muggeridge's prolific writings to chronicle the long and…