Art and Scholasticism With Other Essays
10 best books like Art and Scholasticism With Other Essays (Jacques Maritain): Theology and Sanity, On Poetry And Poets, Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own, The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology, The First and Second Apologies, Aquinas, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, The Splendor of Truth, Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
| Author | Frank Sheed |
| ISBN | 0898704707 |
I can't give this book the reviews it deserves. Whatever feeble effort I provide will be lacking.
I remember loving this the first time i read it. Having such a clear thinker and a clear teacher at the same time seems so rare. How often can you read a major section on the Trinity and not be left dumbfounded...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571089836 |
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
On Christmas Eve I unexpectedly met two of Mother Teresa's nuns. They were standing at the back doors of my church. They are never at my church. I must admit I get sort of depressed at holiday time, being alone and without a family to celebrate with. I made the "mistake" of going to the 4pm Christmas Eve mass....
The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology
| Author | Hans Jonas |
| ISBN | 0810117495 |
One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics, social philosophy, cosmology, and Jewish theology -- always with a view to understanding morality as the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future....
| Author | Justin Martyr |
| ISBN | 0809104725 |
Justin Martyr (AKA Saint Justin) was a second century Christian leader, teacher, and writer. Only three of his works survive today: the lengthy Dialogue with Trypho and two shorter apologies. This book contains both apologies, written around 156-58 or so and addressed to the emperors Antoninus Pius,...
| Author | Frederick Charles Copleston |
| ISBN | 0140136746 |
An Introduction to the Life & Work of the Great Medieval Thinker
Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in...
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| ISBN | 0268010005 |
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the Deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Because...
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.
The...
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0819869643 |
"Chýba jej vraj láskavosť a milosrdenstvo. V skutočnosti sa však materské cítenie Cirkvi nedá odlúčiť od jej učiteľského poslania, čo vždy musí plniť ako verná nevesta Krista, ktorý sám je pravdou... V skutočnosti pravá láskavosť a spravodlivé milosrdenstvo majú...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 0898703026 |
The popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive...
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0268017409 |
In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and whether mediaeval philosophy is not its most adequate...
| Author | Alfred North Whitehead |
| ISBN | 0029351707 |
The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-matter. One meaning is the effect of certain ideas in promoting the slow drift of mankind towards civilization. This is the Adventure of Ideas in the history of mankind. The other meaning is the author's...
| Author | George Santayana |
| ISBN | 1406800406 |
Influential philosopher, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) was a thorough naturalist, concerned with the ideal factors in human experience. He held that everything possesses a natural basis and that everything natural has an ideal development. In this one-volume edition...
Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude
| Author | Dietrich von Hildebrand |
| ISBN | 0898708699 |
Recognized as a modern spiritual classic and perhaps Dietrich von Hildebrand's greatest work, this sublime and practical study gives a penetrating analysis of the true path to holiness for those who love Christ. The first requisite is the person's desire for change, and with that fundamental attitude...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 1586170732 |
In this book, Chesterton's brilliance as a writer and thinker again shine through as he explains his understanding of Catholicism and the Catholic Church and how its appeal to reason and truth eventually won him over. For Chesterton, two essentials lay at the heart of conversion, and without these,...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0415083028 |
Russell has an acute style of tackling epistemological discussions. The thing I loved about this book is that its language is simple but comprehensive. BR introduces a problem in simple words and gradually he takes the reader to a point where he can atleast get the idea behind the discussion if not fully...
| Author | Jacques Derrida |
| ISBN | 0226142779 |
We have here a kind of shibboleth, a secret formula such as can be uttered only in a certain way in a certain language.
As the Poet sang, "God said to Abraham, kill me a son. . ." Grant us then, a huddle of actors on our moral boards. We know of Abe and Isaac. Their plight is understood. Enter the dark...
| Author | Roger Scruton |
| ISBN | 1594031940 |
What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge,...
| Author | Gregory Wolfe |
| ISBN | 1933859881 |
Culture, Not Politics.
We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor...
The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement (Critique of Judgement 1)
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 1420926942 |
So, you want to read some Kant and you think his Aesthetics might be as good a place to start as any? Well, be warned, this book was not written as a quick read. It is a hard slog, at least at the start, and probably does require at least a passing knowledge of just about everything else Kant ever thought about...
