Catholic Education
This collection of essays explores the Catholic Church’s understanding of human flourishing and education. It provides insights and case studies into how Catholic education policy is implemented in a variety of national and international contexts.
How do we live when no one seems to be in charge? This history of Western culture charts the collapse of authority and our modern struggle to manage frustration and find fulfillment without falling into radical narcissism.
This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
Arians and Vandals of the 4th-6th Centuries
In late sixth-century North Africa, the legacy of the Arians and Vandals fueled bitter schisms within the Catholic Church. This study reveals the religious persecution that forced families to flee their homes in a struggle for faith and survival.
The Gülen Hizmet Movement
This volume covers the origins, development, and ideas of the Gülen Hizmet Movement (GHM), one of the world’s largest Islamic movements. It explores Gülen’s educational philosophy, views on Islam and democracy, political engagement, and interfaith dialogue.
Mystery and the Culture of Science
Arguing that all knowledge is provisional, this book tackles the polarisation caused by false certainty. It offers shocking but liberating reflections on science and theology to loosen doctrines that trap the Church and impoverish faith.
The Green Man in Medieval England
Long thought to be a mysterious pagan symbol, this book reveals the Green Man’s true Christian meaning in medieval England. Drawing on examples from churches and forgotten legends, it uncovers a significance well understood by medieval folk but lost to us today.
Alexandrian Legacy
These interdisciplinary essays explore the complex and often neglected Alexandrian patristic tradition. Combining historiography, theology, and philosophy, they reveal a vibrant Christian spirit striving for the reformation and transformation of the human being.
Christian Responses to Five Views of the Bhagavad Gita
This book examines five readings of the Bhagavad Gita, juxtaposing them with a Christian response to the text and its theology. Written for students and practitioners of interfaith dialogue, it is a resource to enable deeper conversations between Hindus and Christians.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.
Africana Jewish Journeys
Millions of people worldwide are identifying as Jews or converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners explore this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.
This book challenges the assumption that Islamism and democracy are incompatible. Drawing from fieldwork in post-Suharto Indonesia, it reveals how these forces can coexist through contestation and compromise, with implications for Muslim-majority countries.
Rhetoric in 2Maccabees
2Maccabees describes the threat of Hellenisation, yet its authors ironically used Greek rhetoric to combat Greek influence. This book presents the latest post-2012 findings from nine prominent scholars, offering essential theological insights for serious Biblical scholars.
This book is the third in a series presenting outcomes from the Maryvale Institute’s doctoral research programme. It provides an overview of work by students across the globe and their contribution to new knowledge in Catholic studies.
Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia
A tribute to David Kinsley, this interdisciplinary anthology explores the sacred geography of goddesses. Essays from scholars of religious studies, geography, and anthropology link ecology and shamanism with landscape as temple and territory as cosmos.
On the Move
Fleeing their land, the refugee’s journey is fraught with danger and despair. They are the “untouchables” of the 21st century, testing our moral duty of hospitality. This collection of essays explores their journey as represented in literature since WWII.
Seeing with Different Eyes
These cutting-edge essays on divination and astrology feature authors from diverse academic disciplines. They address divination with critical but sympathetic inquiry, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms across widely varying contexts.
Evolved-God Creationism
This book answers fundamental questions left by science and religion. Using compelling axioms, it proves that God evolved in a wider universe and created our sub-universe, answering logically how even that wider universe came about.
The Internal Foe
This book explores how Christian theology has been shaped over two millennia by its interaction with Judaism. It traces a resilient framework of judgment and asks: Must Christian theology remain intrinsically anti-Jewish? The book concludes that it need not.
The wonder of the Christian faith is that salvation is a gift, by grace, and does not have to be earned. This book argues that since grace is at the heart of God’s nature, the Christian way of life is one of giving and harmony, a rebuttal of normal human self-seeking.