“…The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. …”

“…Scholars from evangelical, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, religiously hybrid and other background enrich the existing models for interreligious classrooms. …”

“…Glassman shows that despite their theological differences, Anglican, Puritan, and Catholic clergymen concurred in the negative images of Jews presented to their congregations. …”

“…Educated in the tensions between reason and religion well into the nineteenth century, Pedro Gómez de la Serna Tully (1806-1871) was a Spanish jurist with Catholic virtues, a progressive-conservative politician who questioned codification, without ceasing to be a notable agent of the new constitutional virtues. …”

“…The History of Law and The Catholic Church in the face of the liberal Reformation…”

“…The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held opinions—leading to a duel that is proposed but never fought—inspire a host of comic adventures whose allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism. …”

“…This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic Church. It introduces readers from various backgrounds to the sociology of canon law, which is both a legal and a theological field of study, and is the first step towards introducing a new subdiscipline of the sociology of canon law. …”

“…Originally this university was established for the emancipation of the Catholic population in the Netherlands. Emancipation continues to be a distinctive feature of the university's policy, also of the scholarship as it is conducted in the department of anthropology and development studies. …”

“…Originally this university was established for the emancipation of the Catholic population in the Netherlands. Emancipation continues to be a distinctive feature of the university's policy, also of the scholarship as it is conducted in the department of anthropology and development studies. …”

“…Són pensaments que en un moment o altre ha tingut tothom qui es dedica a ensenyar. Darrere la voluntat de fer de mestre hi ha un compromís, una idea sobre el sentit transformador d’aquesta feina i molt de coratge. …”

“…Clara Egger is Assistant Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Raul Magni-Berton is Professor of Political Science and Scientific Director at the European School of Political and Social Sciences, Lille Catholic University, France. Eugenie de Saint-Phalle is Lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands…”

“…Examining the ways we have conceived of that little voice in our heads - our self-directed judge - he teases out its most enduring elements, the aspects that have survived from the Greek playwrights in the fifth century BCE through St Paul, the Church Fathers, Catholics and Protestants, all the way to the 17th centurys political unrest and the critics and champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. …”

“…"One of the most controversial religious figures of the 19th century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. …”

“…Worried that this could lead to a rejection of Catholic rituals, the church reshaped the meaning and practices of exorcism, transforming this healing rite into a means of spiritual interrogation. …”
Sumario

“…He tells the story of his family-a tale of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old Left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. …”

“…Chapters showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary natural law thought, going beyond the dominant Catholic and Thomist perspectives to investigate natural law ideas in a variety of religious and cultural traditions, such as Judaism, Islam and Confucianism, as well as African American and feminist theory. …”

“…It is rapidly gaining popularity among Roman Catholics and Protestants. Bishop Kallistos Ware aptly summarizes its place in the modern world: “The work as a whole is to be seen as a spiritual ‘time bomb,’ whose chief influence has come, not at the moment of its first publication towards the end of the eighteenth century, but two hundred years later.”In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. …”

“…Il volume ripercorre una fase fondamentale, ma generalmente "rimossa" dalla storiografia, del pensiero di Jacques Maritain inerente ai diritti umani, riconoscibile nella sua collaborazione con un gruppo di intellettuali cattolici americani nel fondare il Committee of Catholics for Human Rights del 1939. Dagli anni newyorkesi di Maritain emerge un lato inedito del filosofo: la ferma volontà di promuovere una serie di diritti fondamentali che ogni essere umano possiede a prescindere dalla sua conoscenza della "verità" religiosa. …”

“…His significance for the Catholic Church, and for all the churches, is neither as a model of mere piety, nor as a paragon of conformist orthodoxy, but specifically as a teacher and exemplar of Christian thinking at the edge; for the patient, generous, attentive and interrogative mind he brought to bear on the questions of good and evil, meaning and purpose, that are the heart of religion.'…”

“…Amb un estil punyent, concís, aforístic i engrescador, Escrivà proposa un itinerari a l’abast de tothom com a expressió d’una vida intensament viscuda. …”