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Ralph Mcinerny
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Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, was one of the few unalloyed heroes of World War II. At great Personal risk, he saved some 800,000 Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Jewish…
In ‘Shakespearean Variations’, Ralph McInerny takes the first lines of the sonnets and their end rhymes, and composes sonnets of his own. The formal structure of the sonnet has always…
Ralph McInerny
McInerny describes how a debate was initiated in the 30s on whether philosophy could have existed in the age of faith. Concerned with the moral aspect of Christian philosophy…
In this collection of essays, Ralph McInerny portrays Jacques Maritain as a devoted Thomist, convinced that faith could never be divorced from reason and that reason without faith was meaningless…
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A patient and faithful working of primary Thomistic texts, this volume presents a systematic and unified character of Aquinas’s theory of moral agency as it relates to human action. Focusing…
In these essays, first delivered as lectures at the University of Glasgow in 1999-2000, Ralph McInerny discusses natural theology. The first five lectures ask Whatever Happened to Natural Theology? and…
A leisurely game of golf isn’t always without incident. So when Will Abner, Tom McCoy and Jim Bullock discover the deceased Edgar Bissonet on the seventh fairway, the elderly threesome…
Brings together articles that influenced the scholarly work of Ralph McInerny.
These essays comprise the reflections of eight thinkers on various aspects of the problems of modern thought and its attitude to religion. The book questions the assumption that humans prosper…
A revised edition, in which McInerny revisits the basics of Thomas’s teachings and offers a brief, intelligible, and persuasive summary.
After setting forth different attitudes toward proofs of God’s existence and outlining the difference between belief and knowledge, this work examines the texts in which Thomas Aquinas uses and explains…
In this collection of essays, Ralph McInerny portrays Jacques Maritain as a devoted Thomist, convinced that faith could never be divorced from reason and that reason without faith was meaningless.
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Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this…
St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas’s continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas…
In his memoir, McInerny recounts childhood and adolescence. He also speaks about his career as a Catholic professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, his views on the Catholic Church, his…
McInerny provides Catholic readers new to Dante’s Divine Comedy with a comprehensive companion centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This text is Ralph McInerny’s hymn of praise to the spiritual and intellectual life of the great Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1881-1973). It should appeal to anyone who values the…
St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas…
In this study of the relationship between Boethius and Thomas Aquinas,
* Introduces students this great philosopher of the middle ages in one short book. * Brings together alternative approaches to Aquinas’ thought. * Uses key texts to describe the trajectory…
This lively and highly accessible introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas focuses on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation. * Introduces students…
These stories represent an intermediate stage in the evolution of the Knight brothers in Ralph McInerny’s fiction. In The Noonday Devil, Phil, in his capacity as private detective, was fairly…
A user-friendly introduction to Church Latin using church and scriptural documents themselves, allowing the student to build up knowledge with meaningful texts. All paradigms, grammar, and vocabulary are included, and…
This volume brings together essays from scholars including William Wallace, O.P., June P. Dougherty, John Haldane, Thomas DeKoninck, Alasdair MacIntyre, David Solomon, Daniel McInerny, Janet E. Smith, Michael Novak, Stanley…
Christopher Kaczor
During more than a half century at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Ralph McInerny’s legendary achievements include writing more than 50 non-fiction books in philosophy, medieval studies, and theology…
Florent Gaboriau
One fateful day Edith Stein took from a friend’s bookshelf the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. In it she found the simple truth about human existance. Shortly afterward, she…
Jacques Maritain
This is a critique of the thought of Henri Bergson.
Stephen Brock
Both Thomistic scholars and analytic philosophers interested in theories of human action and accountability will find this book a welcome addition to their libraries. Truly a substantive addition to both…
This work is Maritain’s masterpiece. Published as Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical…
Ralph M. McInerny
The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the…
The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. Perhaps that should…
The present volume brings together a number of things I have written on the subject of analogy since the appearance of The Logic of Analogy in 1961.
Murder Most Divine is an anthology of short stories in which the murders are solved by clergy using the cleverest of methods.
The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. From Chesterton’s classic…
Michael M Waddell,Ralph McInerny
The outstanding contributors to this symposium are Benedict M. Ashley, o.p., Steven Baldner, Angelo Campodonico, William E. Carroll, Lawrence Dewan, o.p., Fulvio Di Blasi, Jude P. Dougherty, Leo J. Elders…
Charles De Koninck
Present the first English editions of collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906-1965).
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Thomas Aquinas,Richard Berquist,Ralph Mcinerny
The most well known and enduring of Maritain’s many books. It offers a clear introduction to philosophy and theology from the archaic era through to the Ancient Greeks right up…
