Religious Studies / Philosophy of Religion

This collection of essays sheds new light on the thought of David Novak, one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the post-war era.

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology, this book presents a concise summary and commentary of Lonergan's groundbreaking work.

This book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being.

The Human Paradox shows how the nature of the human is structured by the conflicting human values and virtues that have shaped Western culture, and are visible across the world today.

Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources engages with the philosophers who made the greatest impact on the thought of Emil Fackenheim.

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.

This is the first book in English to lay out the philosophical ethics and philosophy of law of Hermann Cohen, one of the leading figures in both Neo-Kantian and Jewish philosophy.

Doran works out a starting point for a contemporary theology of history and proposes a new application of the ‘psychological analogy’ for understanding the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

In order to correctly assess Lonergan’s life’s work, it is crucial to have a familiarity with his early forays into speculative philosophical and theological matters, as presented in this volume.

This book argues that tensions between Jewish and Christian doctrine may be lessened if texts are regarded as philosophical frameworks of exploration as opposed to ethical commitments.

This is the first book on the influential Canadian Jesuit, Frederick Crowe. The book presents his main contribution to theology, his creative and controversial theology of the Holy Spirit.

Continuing to explore Lonergan’s Trinitarian theology, Volume 2 explores the "Third Quest for the Historical Jesus," a movement strongly influenced by the late Ben F. Meyer of McMaster University.

The Bible is philosophy. God’s "I AM WHO I AM" asserts its principle, an ontological principle having to do with the nature of persons. Western religion, confusing the principle for a person, rests on a mistake. Greek-based philosophy, missing the principle, is deficient.

Ever since Max Weber's study of the role Protestantism played in our civilization, the role of Christianity in our world has been much debated. This work is addressed to those interested in a return to the Biblical message as opposed to what institutionalized Christianity has made of it.

The theology of redemption or soteriology, as the relevant themes are treated in biblical literature, Christian history, and contemporary theology, including Lonergan's famous treatment of 'the law of the cross,' with a significant treatment of the problem of good and evil.

In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity."