On January 19, 2004 in Munich, at the invitation of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, Jurgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger engaged in a public discussion on the topic 'The pre-political moral foundatio
Here is an inspiring story that has been muted over the past 400 years. For much of this time, Mary Ward's role in changing the place of women in the Church was suppressed by Church authorities with t
This volume deals with the founding of a missionary religious order in the Catholic Church, the Society of Mary, otherwise known as the Marists, a society of Priests many of whom in the early days wen
In this book, scholars from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions explore violence in religious scriptures. In 12 chapters, they grapple with the problem of how to deal with the phenomenon of violen
Looks at the Bible's mandate for man's domination of the Earth found in Genesis 1:26-28 from the perspective of a twenty-first century worldview informed by ecology and offers an analysis of the "ecol
There are several ways of envisioning creationism. Some believers will see the mark of God in this struggle of his faithful to defend the truth of the Bible and religious tradition. The atheist will l
If the defining feature of the Middle Ages is its churches, the defining architect of its mind, heart and soul---at least until Aquinas---is St Augustine. The Church was a spiritual army whose leaders
