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  • Lying and Truthfulness

    A Thomistic Perspective

    by Stewart Clem ...
    In this book, Stewart Clem develops an account of truthfulness that is grounded in the Thomistic virtue of veracitas. Unlike most contemporary Christian ethicists, who narrowly focus on the permissibility of lying, he turns to the virtue of truthfulness and illuminates its close relationship to the virtue of justice. This approach generates a more precise taxonomy of speech acts and shows how they ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Human Wisdom

    This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did it emerge? It explores lines of convergence and divergence between Christian theology and evolutionary anthropology in its search to ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

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    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Moral Theology

    Series Book 1 - Catholic Moral Thought
    The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics .In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this fir... ... Read more

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  • The Kingdom and the Glory

    For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa, Matteo Mandarini ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of ... Read more

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  • Spinoza's Religion

    A New Reading of the Ethics

    A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of ... Read more

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  • Faith in a Hard Ground

    Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe

    Series Book 11 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    Elizabeth Anscombe’s forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005. ... Read more

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  • On Augustine

    Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through ... Read more

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  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Read more

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  • The Essence & Topicality of Thomism

    Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., explains why Thomism is the solution to the present crisis of Modernism in the Church. The problem: The indications of the current crisis in the Church have “been not of a crisis of faith, but of a very grave malady of the intellect, which conducts itself on the tracks of liberal Protestantism and through relativism to absolute skepticism.” Fr. Garrigou ... Read more

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  • Karman

    A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into ... Read more

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  • Opus Dei

    An Archaeology of Duty

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical ... Read more

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