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ISBN 0-87462-601-1. Paperbound, 175 pages. $20.
"Max Scheler (1874-1928), by testimony of almost all contemporary European philosophers, was one of the most brilliant thinkers in our century. As Heidegger once put it, there is no present-day philosopher who is not indebted to him. Others agreed with the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset who wrote that with the sudden death of Scheler, Europe had lost one of its greatest minds it ever had. Whereas his name was in circulation everywhere during the twenties, including in Asia and the Americas, his fame faded away like a comet after his demise at the age of fifty-four. He left behind many printed works and thousands of posthumous manuscripts, all of which material was suppressed by the German Nazi-regime during 1933 and 1945. Publication of his works took only a slow start in 1954. So did translations of them.
"Among Max Scheler's most intriguing early works dealing with the non-rational, emotional depths of human beings is his 1914 investigation into resentment, which increasingly marks the modern era. It was published first in 1912 under the German title, Über Ressentiment und moralisches Werturteil (Ressentiment and Moral Value-Judgment). In 1915 it went into an enlarged edition with the new title, Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (The Role of Ressentiment in the Make-Up of Morals). The present Louis A. Coser translation into English is made from the 1915 text."
ISBN 0-87462-602-1. Paperbound, 172 pages. $20.
Has philosophy anything of value to offer contemporary Africa? Has Africa anything of value to offer contemporary philosophy? Philosophy for Africa answers yes to both these questions. It deals with the question of human freedom, and the problem of liberation (in its most comprehensive sense), in the context of contemporary Africa (especially South Africa) and its struggle to overcome the predicament in which European colonialism (and apartheid) has left it.
Traditional African thought contains insights into the nature of persons and community that scientific and technological culture has lost, but which could be of the utmost importance in dealing with these issues. They embody a conception of humanity that avoids the materialism and individualism of the dominant forms of contemporary philosophy, but without embracing the opposite extremes of dualism or Marxist collectivism.
At the same time, contemporary Africa, and South Africa in particular, needs to articulate these insights in a critical and systematic way, so as to be able to apply them in the struggle for a comprehensive human liberation.
Philosophy for Africa draws from the philosophical tradition associated with the names of Aristotle and Aquinas, and such recent figures as Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan. It develops this tradition creatively, to integrate African insights and European philosophy into a philosophy of persons, which could serve as a criterion for liberation in the different spheres of human life. In particular, the philosophy of persons is applied to the question of liberation in the spheres of work and gender. It is also used to throw light on the important role of religion in a liberation struggle.
Augustine Shutte is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, where he teaches courses m moral philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy in a South African context.He has published articles in a variety of journals, including the International Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy, Philosophy and Theology, Modern Theology, The Scottish Journal of Theology, New Blackfriars, Philosophical Papers, The South African Journal of Philosophy. He is also the author of a theological book, The Mystery of Humanity.
ISBN 0-87462-608-0. Paperbound, 184 pages. $20. Published by arrangement with UCT Press.
"There is a consensus among Christian theologians that the symbol of the "kingdom of God," inherited from the Judaic tradition, is the key to understanding Christianity. But theologians have for millennia differed among themselves as to the interpretation of this symbol. Political ramifications of, or reactions to, this Judaeo-Christian idea have included the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the "Third Rome," American Manifest Destiny, Zionism, the Third Reich, and Liberation Theology. This book focuses on the question of whether the "kingdom of God" is necessarily related to certain political implementations, and its possible implications for democracy and democratic theory. It examines the development of the symbol in the Old and New Testaments, the diversity of related theological interpretations and political concomitants, and the significance of the "kingdom of God" in the development of present and future political formations and political theory."
"Kainz's contribution consists more in the method of argumentation which he uses to support it: a method which combines dialectical argumentation, expressed in chapters in the form of dialogues together with an historical survey. The result is precisely a dialectical presentation, both of the Kingdom of God and of democracy, and of their relationship. The advantage of this method of argumentation is that it allows one to refine the thesis itself, exposed to the criticism of the adversary, so that the final proposition takes into account the contrasting viewpoints and is aware of its own fragility, being liable to degenerate into onesideness."
ISBN 0-87462-610-2 Paperbound, $25.
Translated by Dr. Russell Dees. Commissioned by Aarhus University, Denmark. A two volume translation of the major work of the most important Danish philosopher since Kierkegaard.
"At the time of his death in 1981, K. E. Løgstrup was in the process of completing his four-volume treatise entitled Metafysik. As his recent biographer Hans Hauge put it, this work was Løgstrup's summa theologica, the culmination of a lifetime of reading and thinking. Løgstrup published two volumes of this work during his lifetime. The remaining two volumes were edited and published posthumously in 1983 and 1984, respectively, by his widow and several colleagues: Rosemarie Løgstrup, Svend Andersen, Karstein Hansen, Ole Jensen and Viggo Mortensen. The group has edited and published two additional volumes of K. E. Løgstrup's papers. This translation was commissioned by the University of Aarhus, where Løgstrup was professor of theology from 1943 to 1975, and consists of excerpts from all but one of these works.
"Danes consider Knud Ejler Løgstrup to be the greatest philosophical/theological thinker their nation has produced since Søren Kierkegaard strolled the cobbled streets of Copenhagen. Like Kierkegaard, Løgstrup has the reputation of being a difficult and strong-willed thinker. On the occasion of the thirteenth printing of Løgstrup's most widely known work, The Ethical Demand (1956), Poul Erik Tøjner described him in the following way:
K. E. Løgstrup was an obstinate, headstrong thinker. He thought his own way, one could say. He said much. Often, he said the exact opposite of what the epoch accepted as stock, self-evident truths. If Kierkegaard and hundreds of theologians after him said that Christ lived the most paradoxical life that had ever been lived, Løgstrup said that he had lived the only non-paradoxical life on earth…. Løgstrup's influence on Danish spiritual life has been colossal. That his ideas have become so widespread is a tribute not only to his authorship but to just as high a degree to the number of people from a wide variety of disciplines who have felt attracted or repelled by "Løgstrupian" considerations.
Løgstrup is recalled as a charismatic figure, one who did not shy away from controversy and who not infrequently expressed his ideas with great eloquence."
ISBN 0-87462-603-X. Volume I, 400 pages. Paperbound. $40.
ISBN 0-67462-607-2. Volume II, 400 pages. Paperbound. $40.
Two volume set priced at $70.
Chapters on The Biophysical World, on the Emotional Spheres, on the Ordo Amoris, on Ressentiment, on Scheler's Non-Formal Ethics of Values, on the Human Person, on the Person God, on Knowledge and Reality, and on the theme of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Adjustment.
ISBN 0-87462-605-6. Paperbound. $20. Spring 1996. Second
edition, revised. New Foreword by the author.
English edition by Dr. Timothy Kircher, Guilford College, of the 1986 work Existenz Denken Stil: Perspektiven einer Grundbeziehung. Dargestellt am Werk Sørens Kierkegaards (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Verlag).
"I consider the work extraordinary, because it develops seriously the insight that since Kierkegaard we have come to realize how relevant the mode of existence of a philosopher is to his philosophizing. On the basis of this insight the author derives an understanding of style that has in view this very correspondence of thought and mode of existence. On account of the irreparable breach of the ideal identity between thought and being, it is necessary to perceive existence, which is constantly present in language as a mediator, whenever it yields itself in temporal expression. This revelation occurs in the perception of style. In seems to me that the author's thesis possesses great heuristic value."
ISBN 0-87462-606-4. Paperbound. $20. Spring 1996.
Translated by Bond Harris and Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock. Edited and with an Introduction by Pol Vandevelde
In 1950 Paul Ricoeur published his masterful translation of Edmund Husserl's most essential work, Ideen I, under the title Idées directrices pour une phénoménologie. In presenting Husserl's thought, Ricoeur offered a substantial introduction and copious notes that constitute a running commentary to the text in all its most difficult aspects. As a result we have in these pages what is without doubt the best handbook and key to one of the most original minds of the century, the father of phenomenology and creator of the method that transformed continental from a moribund rationalism of the nineteenth century into a vibrant existentialism that remains in the minds of philosophers today an age of excitement not superseded by postmodernism. Ricoeur strides across this period as one of its major figures, as an interpreter and teacher, and as an original philosopher in his own right. The combination of Husserl and Ricoeur makes this Key to Husserl's Ideas I one of the best instruments for professors and students alike.
ISBN 0-87462-609-9. Paperbound. $20. Spring 1996.
The thought of Karl Jaspers, one of the foremost philosophers of existence, has been devoted to the explication of man's situation in the world and the possibilities of his self-transcendence.
With the publication of Reason and Existenz, originally delivered as a series of five lectures at the University of Groningen in 1935, one of the most important of Jaspers's philosophic works is made available to the English-speaking world. It concerns itself with a general statement of the principal philosophic categories which have given uniqueness to Jaspers's thinking: existence, freedom and history, and the limit-situations of death, suffering, and sin. Written shortly after Jaspers's major systematic work and before his analysis of the problem of truth, Reason and Existenz, occupies a primary position in the development of his thought.
One of the most famous European philosophers and, with Heidegger and Sartre, a foremost representative of existentialism, Karl Jaspers was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basle.
"Every thoughtful reader must feel appreciation toward a philosopher who has lifted the controversy between 'rationalism' and 'existentialism' to a new and more creative level. This book will make history."
- Reinhold Niebuhr, The New Republic
ISBN 0-87462-611-0. Paperbound. 180 pp. $20. Spring 1996. With a new Foreword.
Standing orders receive a 30% discount.
Comments on Subject and Psyche by Bernard Lonergan: In "Questionnaire on Philosophy" (Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 2:2, 1984, p. 31) Lonergan writes:
"Following the method ... is not a matter of deduction but of creativity: such creativity may enrich the thematization of experiencing, understanding, judgment, deliberation that already has been achieved; it may also add quite new dimensions to it, as has Robert Doran, S.J. in his doctoral dissertation."
And in "Reality, Myth, Symbol" (in Alan Olson, ed., Myth, Symbol and Reality, Notre Dame 1980, p. 37):
"With me (Doran) would ask: 'Why?' 'Is that so?' 'Is it worthwhile?' But to these three he would add a fourth. It is Heidegger's Befindlichkeit taken as the existential question: 'How do I feel?' It is not just the question but also each one's intelligent answer, reasonable judgment, responsible acceptance. And on that response I can do no better than refer the reader to Professor Doran's current writing."
ISBN 0-87462-627-7. Paperbound. 285 pages. $25.
Chapters on the Bible in the Church to the 19th century (Hagen), in the Roman Catholic Church (Harrington), in the Orthodox Church (Prokurat), in the Lutheran Church (Burgess), and among American Evangelicals (Osborne).
With a conclusion by George Tavard.
"In 1985 The Bible in the Churches, which essentially was a text dedicated to how Catholic, Lutheran, and Evangelical churches have understood and used the Bible, was published. A history of the interpretation of the Bible from the early church to the nineteenth century was also included. The volume sold out by February 1992.
Since the unavailability of The Bible in the Churches, I have accepted the challenge to see what could be done to broaden the appeal of a revised volume for college and seminary use. A single volume serves a real need for those interested in how the churches actually apply the Scripture. No one volume currently exists in English—one that engages the student with the reception of the Scriptures in the major Christian traditions written by representatives of the living traditions.
Included in the revised edition are representatives of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Evangelical traditions on the history of the Bible in their churches plus a concluding chapter by George Tavard. In an effort to move beyond another volume on the history of hermeneutics, each of the contributors exegetes Ephesians 2:1-10, which gives a concrete example of how the churches read the same text so differently. Interest in the history of biblical interpretation continues to increase in scholarly historical circles; plus we continue to hear challenges to the contemporary historical-critical methodologies. It is amazing and gratifying that interest in church history as the history of biblical exegesis (Gerhard Ebeling) is actually being done throughout Europe and the United States."
- - From the Preface to the Second Edition.
ISBN 0-87462-628-5. Paperbound, 185 pages. $20. Second edition, revised.
New Translation of the First Edition by Joseph Donceel. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew Tallon.
Available on 3.5 inch disk; specify Macintosh, DOS, Windows, or Unix. Disk versions are distributed using Adobe Acrobat 2.0.
"Hearer of the Word is the single most necessary book of philosophy and pre-theology Rahner ever wrote. It discusses not only being and knowledge, but freedom, faith, and love: it has a heart in a way missing from the necessarily technical tome that is Spirit in the World, Ideally one should master both Spirit in the World and Hearer of the Word, but one should never, if forced to choose between them, forgo Hearer of the Word. It is the sine qua non of Rahner studies. A work of sustained power and incomparable metaphysical interest and importance, it is at once profound, yet readable and clear—at least in this excellent new translation of the first edition here published for the first time.
"Hearer of the Word is a contemporary classic, the best key to understanding Rahner's omnia opera, and his single best effort to show how the human spirit in the world can hear the word of the Spirit who enters human history."
By a special arrangement with Continuum Publishing Co., Marquette University Press is making available this computer disk version of Hearer of the Word for the scholarly world.
ISBN 0-87462-631-5. COMPUTER DISK VERSION. $10.
0-87462-632-3. 500 pages. $50.
0-87462-633-1. 550 pages. $55.
Orestes A. Brownson was one of the most original, creative, and controversial of the American intellectuals in early and mid nineteenth century America.
MU Press will publish a Bibliography of Orestes A. Brownson's Writings which contains a comprehensive and annotated list of the published works of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-76) from 1826 until his death in 1876. The bibliography offers for the first time a complete list of over 1500 of his essays, pamphlets and books.
MU Press will also publish a four-volume critical edition of Orestes A. Brownson's Early Works. These four volumes will cover the period prior to Brownson's conversion to Catholicism, 1826 to 1843. Most of the provocative and critical essays he wrote during this period were never republished in his son Henry's twenty-volume edition of his works. His most significant essays on religion, politics, philosophy, literature and American culture will be republished here for the first time. Each of the four volumes will be preceded by an historical introduction which situates Brownson and his writings in the context of American and European intellectual history. Detailed indexes will assist researchers in using these volumes. The writings as well as the volumes themselves will be arranged chronologically to demonstrate clearly the development of Brownson's thought. One volume will be produced each year starting in January of 1996: Volume 1 (1826-1832), Volume 2 (1833-1837), Volume 3 (1838-1839), and Volume 4 (1840-1843).
0-87462-634-X. Spring 1996. $20.
Under Dr. Hagen's editorship, several series will be inaugurated. Each series will feature the original text accompanied by English translation on facing page. One new volume will be published each year. Standing orders receive a 30% discount.
The first series is entitled Biblical Studies; Franz Posset, Editor
Introduced, Translated, and Edited from the Latin by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. Latin and English on facing pages.
"In a famous remark Machiavelli dismissed Girolamo Savonarola as a prophet unarmed and hence doomed to failure. He was certainly a political failure, and paid with his life for that failure, but there are many ways to measure success and failure. It was Machiavelli's own failure in politics that led to his career as a writer and to undying fame. It was Savonarola's failure in politics that led to his arrest and imprisonment, but he was not a prophet totally unarmed, for in prison he retained the pen, which is often mightier than the sword. There he wrote the two works printed in this volume. They became the most read of all his writings and prove that physical torture did not destroy his literary and spiritual powers.
"Savonarola's exposition or meditation on Psalm 50 (51) (the Miserere) and Psalm 30 (31) ('In te, Domini, speravi ') have not been printed in English during the twentieth century. The primary purpose of this book is to make that text available in modern English. The secondary purpose is to help students who are trying to learn to read post-classical Latin. As an undergraduate the translator found the Loeb series, which printed the text and translation of classical Roman authors on facing pages, the best single help to acquire facility in reading Latin. Fewer such volumes exist to help students of post-classical Latin. This series tries to fill that gap for both Latin and early modern vernaculars. Savonarola's Latin seems well suited to that purpose because it is fluent and powerful but without great grammatical complexity."
ISBN 0-87462-700-1. 142 pp. Paper, $15.
Introduced, Translated, and Edited from the Latin by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. Latin and English on facing pages.
"Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was one of the most influential lay theologians in the history of Christianity. His Loci communes, published when he was only twenty-four and expanded in later editions, remained for a century the most important synthesis of Lutheran teaching. Martin Luther valued Melanchthon's ability to write synthetic theology, the more so since his own writings were mainly exegetical, pastoral, or polemical. It was Melanchthon who in 1530 drew up the fundamental confession of the Lutheran churches, the Augsburg Confession. Melanchthon also earned the proud title of praeceptor Germaniae, teacher of Germany, because of his work in curriculum revision, textbook writing, and indefatigable lecturing to packed halls of eager undergraduates. Melanchthon contributed more than anybody except Luther himself to the foundation and consolidation of Lutheranism. This volume makes available for the first time in English one of Melanchthon's earliest theological writings, his Annotationes in Epistolam priorem ad Corinthios, which was delivered as lectures to students at the University of Wittenberg in the summer and fall of 1521 and was first published by Luther in 1522. The translation is printed side by side with the Latin."
ISBN 0-87462-701-X. 178 pp. Paper, $20.
One new volume will published each year at a uniform price of $5 per volume.
Paperbound. Standing orders receive a 30% discount (= $3.50 each).
Mark E. Neely, Jr., John Francis Bannon Professor of American Studies and History at Saint Louis University, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and directed the Lincoln Museum at Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1973 to 1992. His many books have focused on the popular art of the Civil War era and on Abraham Lincoln; they include The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (1982), The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (1984), The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (1987), and The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991), which received the Pulitzer Prize in history. His Klement Lecture is based on his book on civil liberties in the Confederacy, to be published by the University Press of Virginia.
ISBN 0-87462-325-1. (1992) 23 pages with four illustrations. $5
Richard Nelson Current, a native of Colorado, received his degrees from Oberlin, Tufts, and the University of Wisconsin. He has been a member of history departments at the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin-Madison, and North Carolina-Greensboro, and has lectured extensively throughout the world, including stints as a Fulbright professor at the University of Munich and at the University of Chile and as Harmsworth professor at Oxford University. He is the author or co-author of twenty books, including Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy, The Lincoln Nobody Knows, and Lincoln the President (co-authored with J.G. Randall), which won the Bancroft Prize in 1956.
ISBN 0-87462-326-X. (1993) 22 pages. $5
J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Johannsen received his PhD from the University of Washington and has taught at the University of Illinois since 1959. The author or editor of eleven books and nearly fifty articles and chapters in books, his publications include Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict (1955), Stephen A. Douglas (1973), To The Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985), and Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (1991). He has delivered the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lectures at Gettysburg College and the Walter Lynwood Fleming Memorial Lectures at Louisiana State University and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Francis Parkman Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of History.
ISBN 0-87462-327-8. (1994). 39 pages with 3 illustrations. $5
An authority on the military history of the Civil War, Professor Gallagher has authored Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General and the National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National Battlefield Parks and edited Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, which was a main selection of the History Book of the Month Club and winner of the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman Award.
In addition, he has published dozens of articles and essays on a wide range of Civil War topics in scholarly and popular journals. He has also edited eight collections of essays and documents and written scholarly introductions to nearly twenty-five reprints of Civil War memoirs and personal accounts. He is a past president of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites. Professor Gallagher is currently writing a biography of Confederate General Jubal Early, which will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN 0-87462-328-6. (1995). 50 pages with 6 illustrations. $5
This series originated at Marquette University in 1942, and with revived interest in Mediæval studies is read internationally with steadily increasing popularity. Available in attractive, durable, colored soft covers. Volumes priced from $5 to $25 each. Complete Set (33 softbound titles) [0-87462-200-X] receives a 40% discount. John Riedl's A Catalogue of Renaissance Philosophers, hardbound with red cloth, is an ideal reference companion title (sent free with purchase of complete set). New standing orders receive a 30% discount and a free copy of the Riedl volume. Regular reprinting keeps all volumes available.
"As coordinator of the Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia since its beginning, it is for me an honour and a joy to present the excellent work of Professor Roland J. Teske, S.J., ... which is entitled Henry of Ghent: Quodlibetal Questions on Free Will .... Professor Teske is the first to use the critical edition of the Opera Omnia for offering the modern reader ... a volume of characteristic extracts from Henry's thought .... Professor Teske's introduction gives in a clear and succinct manner the essentials of Henry's life and writing, sketches his Quodlibetal Questions, and then indicates the major lines of his teaching in them concerning the treated theme. He then directly confronts the modern searcher after truth with some carefully selected questions from these Quodlibets, translated in a faithful and at the same time clear and handy way."
0-87462-234-4135 pp. (Translation No. 32), 1993, $15
The 54th Disputation was important in Suárez's own mind inasmuch as it set limits for the science of metaphysics and even confronted the limits of what is thinkable and sayable. In this Disputation, Suárez passed from "being insofar as it is real being" or "being insofar as it is actual or possible" (which he identified as the subject or object of metaphysics) to consider "beings" which do not or even cannot exist despite the fact that we can think and speak of them with truth and meaning.
"While William Shakespeare (d. 1617) was responsible for, among other things, Much Ado About Nothing, his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Suárez. S.J., (d. 1616), in his 54th Disputation of his Disputationes Metaphysicae (Salamanca, 1597), was preoccupied with 'much to do about non-beings,' such as negations, privations, relations of reason and sundry chimerae (the likes of 'goat-stags, centaurs, ghosts and goulies and things that go bump in the night').
"In a finely wrought and philosophically intelligible translation of this 54th Disputation of Suárez, John P. Doyle has documented with care the ancient Greek and Medieval sources of Suárez discussion, its influence upon many hitherto unknown late Scholastic writers and the relevance of Suárez intentionality theory to such prominent figures in early, middle and late Modern though as Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, Kant, Brentano, Husserl, Meinong, B. Russell, Heidegger, and others. On these and other counts, this is a must read for any contemporary student of metaphysics and epistemology in the Western tradition."
- - Norman J. Wells, Boston College
0-87462-236-0, 170 pp. (Translation No. 33), $20
Complete list of the 33 volumes of the MPTT Series available on request.
The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture Series began at Marquette University in the Spring of 1937. Ideal for classroom use, library additions, or private collections, the Aquinas Series has received international acceptance by scholars, universities, and libraries. Hardbound in maroon cloth with gold stamped covers. Some reprints with soft covers. Complete Set (59 titles) [ISBN 0-87462-150-X] receives a 40% discount. Uniform style and price ($15 each). New standing orders receive a 30% discount. Regular reprinting keeps all volumes available.
"We may still wonder why culture…ought to seek a metaphysical justification at a time when its chance of finding it appears so slim. The answer lies in the nature of culture itself: it receives its definitive unity and coherence only from the kind of comprehensive synthesis which metaphysics alone can convey. If it is true…that metaphysics requires a unified culture as a condition for its existence, it is no less true that metaphysics itself functions as a primary factor in achieving this unity. The argument is circular, because their relation is mutual. Without a metaphysical 'project' culture lacks the coherence needed for defending its integrity and for transferring it to later generations. Hence even in an anti-metaphysical epoch work "on" metaphysics is indispensable for recovering culture's lost unity."
0-87462-161-5. (Aquinas Lecture 58 [1994]). 65 pp. $15
"The distinction between faith and reason was not an original discovery on the part of the thirteenth century…. It is already present in some of the Fathers of the Church, especially so in St. Augustine. While Augustine was interested in constructing what might best called a Christian wisdom rather than any kind of separate philosophy, he was quite familiar with and well versed in philosophical thinking, especially in Neoplatonism. For his appreciation of the distinction between understanding or proving something on purely rational or philosophical grounds and believing it on divine authority, one may turn to Bk II of his De libero arbitrio. There, in attempting to buttress the claim that God gave free will to human beings, he raises the issue of God's existence. … At the same time, in this same treatise Augustine had argued that it is one thing for us to believe that God exists on the authority of Scripture. It is something else for us to know and to understand what we believe. "Unless believing is different from understanding, and unless we first believe the great and divine thing that we desire to understand, the prophet has said in vain: 'Unless you believe, you shall not understand.'" As a consequence, we find in Augustine strong support for a position adopted many centuries later by St. Anselm of Canterbury—Unless you believe, you will not understand."
Thus Professor John Wippel opens his clear and engaging discussion of the relations between believing and understanding, showing the deep roots of this experience as developed in mediæval philosophy and theology.
0-87462-162-3. (Aquinas Lecture 59 [1995]).,120 pp. $15.
Professor Roland Teske, author of over thirty articles on Augustine, is already well-known for having traced the roots of the Confessions' conception of time to Plotinus. In this work Teske turns to a comprehensive examination of Augustine's philosophy of time. Augustine never repented his early rejection of blind faith's response to the rationalist question, What did God do before creating? Instead, for the first time in Christian thought, as Teske shows, Augustine developed a notion of timeless eternity, based on Plotinus—a notion as essential as the privation of evil to his conversion from Manichaeism. As for time itself, Augustine offers a classic refutation, unappreciated in the scholarly literature, of time's non-existence in the external world. In showing that time has extension only in the mind, Augustine establishes that 'the distention of the mind is a necessary condition of our perceiving temporal wholes.' At the same time, as Teske explains, this condition is unnatural to the rational soul, for Augustine as for Plotinus, and results from original sin. Contrary to Bertrand Russell, however, Augustine's notion of time is not merely subjective but is grounded in a universal soul, through which we await a return to the eternal One. This philosophy of time allows Teske a new reading of the Confessions as the story not of one but of every human, as a Christian and Plotinian philosophy of human existence crowned by the final three books.
0-87462-163-1, (Aquinas Lecture 60 [1996]), $15.
Continuing series of annual public lectures by distinguished theologians of international reputation. The series, growing in popularity, is acquired by beginning students, scholars, and libraries from every continent. Originally launched to celebrate the missions and explorations of Père Jacques Marquette, S.J. Hardbound in blue cloth, gold stamped titles. Some reprints with soft covers. Uniform style and price [$15]. Complete Set receives a 40% discount. New standing orders receive a 30% discount. Regular reprinting keeps all volumes available.
"I want to limit this evening's lecture to four major questions. The discussion that follows can, of course, range more widely. As far as I am concerned, anything at all about the resurrection of Jesus can come in. For that matter, I am happy to respond to and learn from questions or observations about Jesus Christ that range even well beyond his resurrection from the dead. But for the lecture itself my four major questions are: What did the first Christians mean by their claim about Jesus' resurrection? How did they come to know about and believe in him as risen from the dead? How did the resurrection of the crucified Jesus bring the definitive revelation of the tripersonal God? In what way can we legitimate Easter faith today?"
0-87462-548-3. (1993, Lecture 24). 50 pp. $15
"Benedict, in his Rule for Monks, gives various criteria for judging if a novice has the correct motivation. The first of these criteria reads as follows: 'the concern must be whether the novice truly seeks God' (si revera Deum quaeret, chapter 58). It is important to note that Benedict does not say that the novice must find God, but only that the novice must be truly searching for God. In fact, it would probably be a negative sign if the novice were content that he had found God.… It is to be presupposed that, when many people seek God in our culture and give a deeper spiritual meaning to the reality in which they live and the culture that surrounds it, that culture itself will begin to change. One would only hope that the culture then would become a clearer vehicle for religious expression than it is at this present moment. The fault must be found, however, not in the culture but in those who have failed to express their deep religious sentiments in and through the better aspects of the culture that are able to carry a sense of the transcendent. The quest will continue only if we put all of our strength and energy into it. True merit, though, does not come from finding, but from seeking."
0-87462-549-1 (1994, Lecture 25). 45 pp. $15 .
"It is safe to say that the Book of Proverbs is not widely regarded today as a vital part of the Bible and a great resource in living one's life, at least by contemporary North Americans and Europeans. It is not ranked among the top ten, not even among the top forty, of biblical books. Its lack of popularity in North America is particularly striking, given that many of its concerns are those of perennial best sellers by F. Scott Peck, Parker J. Palmer, and others books on finding meaning in life. Themes of contemporary spirituality are everywhere in Proverbs: for example, discernment, making difficult choices, and finding God in all things. Many themes of moral philosophy or theology also appear: Are there any moral absolutes? What is the right thing to do? Will I be punished for bad actions and rewarded for good actions? What do I tell my children about the blessed life? Interest in these questions runs high in our culture."
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