The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu is one of the most revealing expressions of an individual's sense of identity in all literature. This first comprehensive translation of one of the most famous works on early modern statecraft includes an incisive introduction and detailed annotations setting the historical context for modern readers.
This book examines two religious leaders-Bonaventure, a medieval Franciscan theologian, and Chinul, a medieval Korean Zen master-and their efforts to integrate the intellectual and spiritual life. It also explores associated tensions between positive and negative modes of discourse on the divine and between immanence and transcendence.
The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus's long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child ......
The Church in the Latin Fathers analyzes the development of Latin ecclesiology over the course of the first five centuries of Christianity. James K. Lee explores how the church is one and holy, visible, and invisible, according to Latin theologians such as Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and Leo the Great.
The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. The subsequent history of the Lisu church, however, is much less well known. Songs of the Lisu Hills brings this history up to date, recounting the unlikely story of ......
In Women, Sainthood, and Power, Oliva M. Espin examines the life stories of several female saints within their respective cultural and historical contexts from the perspective of feminist psychology and gender politics in the Catholic church.
Revision and Reinterpretation in Early Christian Sources
This book examines how the identification of John the Evangelist with the Apostle John, the son of Zebedee, from around the third century, gave rise to various conflated narratives. Dean Furlong argues that this culminated in Eusebius's synthesis of the traditions, which provided the template for the traditional Johannine narrative.
Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World
Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, this volume presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and motivate action in order to construct alternative frameworks and establish novel solidarities for ......
Rooted and Rising is an edited volume intended for readers who are concerned about the climate crisis and who thirst for the wisdom and spiritual resources of fellow pilgrims grappling with despair.
