In his very first sentence Denys Turner professor of historical theology at Yale University tells us that in his portrait of that most Catholic of Catholic philosopher-theologians St Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 ldquo I have not until undertaking this work given more careful consideration to an i

During the hearings preceding the confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice of the United States Senator Charles Schumer asked ldquo What kind of justice will John Roberts be rdquo Roberts himself suggested that he wanted to be known as a modest judge a judge who respected precedent and ap

This short book makes available for the first time in English a series of articles in French compiled in 1958 by Albert Camus from his writings on Algeria from 1939 to 1958 Camus was born and raised in Algeria a pied noir a member of the minority European community his family of humble backgroun

The first essay by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., in America’s annual Books on the Bible roundup appeared in the issue of Feb. 9, 1991.

This new literary biography mdash rdquo not a formal biography but more than a work of literary criticism rdquo in the words of its author Robert Milder professor of English at Washington University in St Louis mdash contends that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a man divided be-tween his realist perc

'Were the Popes Against the Jews?" and other books on the Nazi persecutions