To mark the long history of Dominican involvement in defence of human rights, in the year celebrating the 800th anniversary of the con rmation of the Order of Preachers, two hundred Dominican brothers
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
How do stories reflect and inform human experience of the world' This book investigates the relationship between Hebrew biblical narrative and the theological problem of theodicy. In the narrative-cri
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
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
Any shortcomings of Karl Barth's view of the relationship between God and creation should not obscure the fact that his Chuch Dogmatics establishes the doctrine of the Trinity as central to the church
The Catholic liturgical calendar is replete with feasts and celebrations that may or may not fall on Sundays. In this volume, Fr William Grimm complements his homilies for the annual cycles (A, B and
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
Modern day sports people and spectators might readily use the divine name, or Jesus Christ, as expletives of frustration or exclamations of triumph, but they would rarely make a connection between gam
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
We are in a period celebrating the first convent of Dominican women and founding of the Dominican friars. Weaving the Threads of Dominican Spirituality is a book that brings together biographies and w
