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
This book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the current understanding of evolution. The second part brings together the scientific picture with various responses to the 'God questio
The growing contemporary interest in spirit possession prompted eleven past and present faculty members of The University of Auckland's School of Theology along with two of the School's recent post-gr
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the staple food, non-staple food, local flavours, eating customs of traditional festivals and cooking methods in detail in China. I
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which makes an intensive study of Chinese traditional festivals, the differences and characteristics of ancient and modern festival customs, in orde
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces fourteen kinds of Chinese representative vernacular dwelling, such as the cave dwellings of Loess Plateau in norther
The General Theory of Ancestral Temples in China offers a comprehensive and topical introduction to the origins and development of China's ancestral temples as well as their categories, architecture,
