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From 1945 on for two decades, Father William Wade was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at St. Louis University. This volume, a recovery of his own 1935 Ph.D dissertation, was originally written under the direction of Vernon J. Bourke, later himself a renowned interpreter of both St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In his dissertation, Wade displays deep understanding of relationships between Greek and medieval thought as well as of t...

Revisits the classical discussion comparing the biblical God with the philosophers' God, particularly using the works of Thomas Aquinas and focusing on the three divine attributes of immutability, eternity, and simplicity. Attention is paid to the idea of the Holy Spirit as related to the simplicity of God and how humans, made in God's image, are similar to God

The consequences of becoming a Christian in the early Christian movement is set apart from that move from any other religious affiliation. This book explores the growth of adherents to early Christianity, that all across this early period people became adherents of Christianity in the face of the costs and consequences of doing so.

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This is one of Paul Beauchamp's most popular books, and has been translated into several languages. It is here offered for the first time in English. Peter Rogers, rector of the Jesuit community in New Orleans, has devoted much time and attention to the translation. The result of his dedication is this beautiful presentation and appreciation of selected Psalms in ways accessible to everyone.

Explores the possibility of looking at the Christian spiritual life as a journey in which the way one remembers is gradually transformed, culminating in a union of memories with Gods memory. It does so partly in response to the need to remember correctly, both as individuals and as a society, both joyful events worthy of celebration, and atrocities that require lamentation and repentance.

Asks how the concept of opposition can be instrumental in solving some of the notorious problems of philosophers, with special attention to Sartre and Heidegger. The three main issues are identified in the chapter titles: Opposition and Particularity, Opposition and Intersubjectivity, and Opposition and Temporality.

Kelling, who has studied policing for over forty years, explores the history of policing through the story of the fascinating changes in the operations of the Milwaukee Police Department in the twenty and twenty-first centuries and what it portends for the future.

The three articles from Henry of Ghent's Summa of Ordinary Questions translated in this volume are the first that deal with the Trinity. Article fifty-three asks ten questions about the sense in which a person exists in God, and article fifty-four asks ten questions about the emanations or processions of one divine person from another, while article fifty-five asks six questions about the properties or notions of the divine persons.

Reflects on how the modern discovery of subjectivity should influence the way we think about God's attributes. Linda Zagzebski's examination of recent conceptions of omnipresence and omniscience reveals that if God truly has all possible cognitive perfections, then a new attribute should rightly be applied to God which the 'traditional attributes' do not address: omnisubjectivity.

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Explores the work of a number of major writers who have inspired the author at different points over the last forty years. They are theologians who engage with a wide range of doctrinal topics and do so in a way that is both robust and persuasive, which makes them, he believes, engaging in a rather different sense of that word. Each chapter begins with a short autobiographical preface, explaining why each writer (or pair of writers) was chosen.

A student of Étienne Gilson and Joseph Owens, John P. Doyle taught medieval and Scholastic philosophy at Saint Louis University for forty years. Of continuing interest to Doyle has been the thought of Francisco Suárez, S.J. On this topic Doyle has published over a dozen articles and four English translations of portions of Suárez's key works. This volume celebrates the life and career of one of those rare kinds of scholars who has mastered an ...

Shares the story of a remarkable, contemporary woman who, in 1968, with the blessing of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Latin American Office, a then 56-year old widow, took her three youngest daughters, ages 11, 14 and 17, and moved to Latin America for a year. She remained serving in Bogotá until 1994.

Through monuments and artwork, Ruth D. Nelson retells the story of the 17th-century French Jesuit missionary-explorer, Father Jacques Marquette, the celebrated surveyor of the Mississippi River. Searching for Marquette follows his journey through todays cities and towns in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Arkansas to uncover French relics, Native-American royalty, and hearty settlers in a drama of faith, the fur trade and the future ...

In contemporary society, the nature of reality is continually challenged and each day there are new examples illustrating that perception has become reality. This book collection considers how researchers might evaluate evidence when truth claims can no longer be made. The authors address issues of perception, evidence, reality and postmodernism from a variety of different backgrounds including history, ethics, cultural studies, law and social...