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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

15 A Theology of Health: Wholeness and Human Flourishing, Tyler J. VanderWeele, paperback

16 Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films, Ryan G. Duns, SJ, paperback

17 The Saint’s Life and the Senses of Scripture: Hagiography as Exegesis, Ann W. Astell, paperback

18 Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text, Sarah McNamer, paperback

19 Martin Luther and the Council of Trent: The Battle over Scripture and the Doctrine of Justification, Peter M. Folan, SJ, paperback

20 The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction, Brendan McInerny, paperback

21 Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy, Anna Bonta Moreland, paperback

22 Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance, James Bernauer, S.J., paperback

23 Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 47, Michelle Karnes (editor), Misty Schieberle (editor)

24 Recently Announced

Indexes

26 Sales Representatives

Orders and Customer Service

28 Ebooks

9780268211493

Pub Date: 9/1/2026

$30.00

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304 Pages

9 in H | 6 in W

Philosophy / Political

Fusionism

Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right

Stephanie Slade Summary

A compelling and necessary history of how the American conservative movement lost its philosophical compass—and why it must be recovered.

In Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, Stephanie Slade tells the story of a forgotten idea that once defined American conservatism. In the years following World War II, the fusionist philosophy—which united the classical liberal defense of individual freedom with the Judeo-Christian tradition of moral virtue —became the foundation of the conservative movement.

In an ironic twist, fusionism’s triumph during the Reagan years led to its decline, as its proponents no longer felt the need to explain and defend their beliefs. Today, many on the right embrace an emphatically anti-fusionist, power-oriented approach to politics that marks a sharp break from the principles of the American founding. And yet, Slade argues, it’s not too late to rediscover the dual importance of liberty and virtue. Fusionism is a lost philosophy whose time has come again.

Combining intellectual history with contemporary political analysis, Fusionism is a call to restore the ideas that once shaped the American right and made the United States exceptional. Slade makes the case that a return to fusionism is essential—not only to the health of the conservative movement but also to the survival of a free and virtuous society.

Contributor Bio

Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at Reason magazine, where she covers the ins and outs of the American conservative movement. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, America, U.S. News and World Report, and elsewhere.

Quotes

“You will not find a better explainer of—or advocate for—fusionism than Stephanie Slade. Fusionism is a splendid read. Slade shows us what American conservatism sometimes was, and might again be.” —Laura K. Field, author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“Stephanie Slade brilliantly illuminates the truth that the free society is made possible by the creative tension between liberty and virtue. With clarity and insight, she shows that if we come to imagine that politics exists to eradicate that tension rather than navigate it, then we will fail to conserve our society. This book is essential reading for conservatives of all parties.” —Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant

“Political movements need vigorous argument, but the rush toward the new often makes us forget that previous generations wrestled with similar dilemmas—and left behind compelling solutions. By recovering the fusionist tradition of figures like Frank Meyer, this book shows why that philosophy may still be the clearest path out of our present impasse.” —George Hawley, author of Conservatism in a Divided America

9780268211257

Pub Date: 8/1/2026

$30.00

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338 Pages

6 b&w images

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Religion / Christian Theology

A Gathering of Leaves Extravagances

and Ephemera

David

Bentley Hart

Summary

A lively and wide-ranging collection from David Bentley Hart, A Gathering of Leaves invites readers to rediscover the sheer joy of reading.

David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in subject and tone—sometimes serious, sometimes playful—but are united by Hart’s distinctive voice: witty, attentive, and unafraid of digression.

Rather than advancing a single argument or theme, Hart lets each essay follow its own path. Short notes sit alongside longer meditations; close readings give way to cultural commentary or unexpected enthusiasms. Hart focuses on the joys of style, observation, and thought in motion. A Gathering of Leaves is a book for readers who enjoy the art of the word—writing that informs and entertains, wanders and returns, and reminds us why reading itself remains a pleasure.

Contributor Bio

David Bentley Hart is a prolific theologian, philosopher, cultural commentator, and writer of fiction. He is the author and translator of over twenty-five books, including The Light of Tabor.

Quotes

“David Bentley Hart is a great essayist. He is a belle-lettrist in the old-fashioned sense, but at the same time a contemporary thinker and writer of real consequence. He is possessed of immense reading in a wide variety of areas, and he has the capacity to get to the root of the matter without wasting time. I regard him as one of the most important intellectuals of our era and someone whose work is of real and lasting significance. This is an important book, one that deserves the widest possible audience.” —Henry Weinfield, author of An Alphabet

“David Bentley Hart is a polymathic marvel; he is also one of the best prose stylists writing today. Whether he is writing about baseball, AI, the deficiencies of Cormac McCarthy, the reality of mermaids, the sublimities of Proust, or (perhaps best of all) prose style itself, his ‘commitment to the mercurial and occasional’ never fails to challenge—and delight.” —Norman Finkelstein, author of Track

“These thirty-eight ‘ephemera’ combine bits of autobiography with the Beatles, Cormac McCarthy, turtles, AI, Nabokov, a fascinating memoir on Japanese ghosts, and a great deal more—all to a constant background hum of fury at the world’s political folly. Everything is vintage Hart: metaphor versus mechanism, wonder versus the closed, passive mind.” —Caryl Emerson, author of All the Same the Words Don’t Go Away

9780268211288

Pub Date: 9/1/2026

$45.00

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352 Pages

19 b&w images

9 in H | 6 in W

History / Europe

Faith under Fascism

Catholic Sisters in Nazi Germany

Martina Cucchiara

Summary

A groundbreaking history that illuminates Catholic sisters at the center of the Catholic Church’s encounter with Nazism.

Faith under Fascism: Catholic Sisters in Nazi Germany reveals the vital role women religious played in confronting, navigating, and ultimately outlasting the Third Reich. Focusing on the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Martina Cucchiara restores nearly 92,000 Catholic sisters—long overshadowed by priests—to the history of Catholicism under Nazism.

As teachers, the sisters encountered the Nazi regime daily in classrooms that became contested sites where Catholic faith, Nazi ideology, and the futures of Catholic and Jewish children intersected. Far from passive victims, the sisters engaged Nazi ideas selectively, creating temporary sanctuaries for Jewish students while also easing Catholic girls’ participation in the Nazi state. Their experiences complicate simple narratives of resistance and collaboration, revealing a history marked by endurance, adaptation, and moral tension.

By tracing the regime’s sustained campaign within and against Catholic schools and religious communities, Cucchiara also intervenes in debates about Nazi intentions toward the churches. Drawing on rich archival sources and the sisters’ lived experience, Faith under Fascism demonstrates that the regime sought not coexistence but the gradual destruction of religious life. Highlighting the sisters’ tenacious perseverance and the ways their everyday actions frustrated the regime’s efforts to suppress Catholic institutions, the book reshapes our understanding of Catholicism and German society under Nazism.

Contributor Bio

Martina Cucchiara is a professor of history at Bluffton University. She is the author and co-editor of a number of publications on the topic of women, religion, and modern Germany, including The Evil That Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen and Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond.

Quotes

“Underpinned by exemplary archival research, and guided by an original focus on female religious orders, Faith under Fascism represents a splendid addition to the historiography of Catholicism in Nazi Germany. This is an important and beautifully written work, which deserves a wide readership. ” —Thomas Brodie, author of German Catholicism at War, 1939–1945

“In Faith under Fascism, Cucchiara fills a gaping void in the history of Nazi Germany: what was happening among women religious. In a well-researched and engagingly written account, readers will have the opportunity to meet the School Sisters and see how they reacted, adapted, and generally were able to withstand the onslaught of the Nazis.” —Beth A. Griech-Polelle, author of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

“Faith under Fascism uncovers a wealth of new material that investigates the ways Nazism transformed Catholic schools run by women religious. Martina Cucchiara highlights the significance of local initiatives undertaken by Catholic sisters, emphasizing the complicated interplay of obedience, deference, and agency.”

—Carmen M. Mangion, author of Contested Identities

9780268211387

Pub Date: 10/1/2026

$50.00

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Hardcover

284 Pages

8 halftones & 2 tables

9 in H | 6 in W

History / Women

The Daughters of Charity, Catholic Hospitals, and the Expansion of American Healthcare

Carl F. Ameringer

Summary

Discover how a community of Catholic sisters helped build and transform America’s healthcare system.

For more than two centuries, the Daughters of Charity quietly worked to shape the institutions that became the backbone of American healthcare. Drawing on his experience as a healthcare attorney and his expertise in health policy and health administration, Carl F. Ameringer offers the first comprehensive history of the Daughters’ healthcare apostolate in the United States, from the founding of their first hospital in 1823 to the transfer of their extensive hospital network in 2012.

Donning their distinctive white-winged cornettes, the Daughters served the sick poor during wars and epidemics, economic recessions and urbanization, founding more than fifty hospitals nationwide. Ameringer shows how they navigated major transformations in medicine and society while overcoming prejudice against women and Catholics and opposition from clergy, physicians, and politicians along the way.

The Daughters of Charity, Catholic Hospitals, and the Expansion of American Healthcare reveals the scale and significance of the Daughters’ contribution to American healthcare and traces a legacy that continues to influence the field today

Contributor Bio

Carl F. Ameringer is a former Maryland assistant attorney general and professor of health policy and politics at three different universities. He is the author of several books, most recently US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs.

Quotes

“Ameringer’s work on the hospital ministry conducted by the Daughters of Charity for over two centuries expertly places their work within the larger story of the history of healthcare in the United States. This meticulously researched book is a welcome addition to the growing body of work detailing the many ways in which religious congregations developed ministries dedicated to serving those in need.” —Margaret M. McGuinness, author of Called to Serve

“This book intriguingly relates the history of Catholic hospitals through the lens of the Daughters of Charity, specifically linking their healthcare apostolate to key contextual forces at play. Ameringer’s book is quite timely in light of recent Supreme Court decisions, debates over religious freedom, and the criticisms of Catholic hospitals over abortion and reproductive procedures.” —Barbra Mann Wall, author of American Catholic Hospitals

9780268211455

Pub Date: 10/1/2026

$65.00

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568 Pages

3 tables

9.3 in H | 6.1 in W

Biography & Autobiography / Religious

Cardinal Owen McCann Catholicism, Apartheid, and Diplomacy in South Africa

Alexandra Maclennan

Summary

A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann.

Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann’s personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907–1994), a pivotal yet often overlooked figure in twentieth-century South African history. Born in a mixed-ethnicity, working-class neighborhood of Cape Town and educated by Irish religious orders, McCann rose to become South Africa’s first cardinal and a key moral voice during the long years of apartheid.

Maclennan traces how McCann’s formation in Catholic Social Teaching shaped his quiet but persistent engagement with South Africa’s racial crisis. As bishop, he lobbied government officials against apartheid laws, used the official Catholic newspaper The Southern Cross to challenge segregation, and defended non-European communities affected by discriminatory legislation. At the same time, newly revealed Vatican diplomatic correspondence shows how the Holy See responded to apartheid and what instructions they gave to the Apostolic Delegate, complicating assumptions about Catholic silence or complicity.

Spanning McCann’s life from the interwar years through Vatican II and the collapse of apartheid, Cardinal Owen McCann illuminates the Catholic Church’s evolving self-understanding amid decolonization, political extremism, and moral crisis—and restores a forgotten cardinal to his place in history.

Contributor Bio

Alexandra Maclennan is an associate professor at the University of Caen Normandy, France, where she teaches on British, Irish, and South African civilization. She has published books and articles for the past twenty-five years on topics ranging from cultural to religious history, along with a French reference book on twentiethcentury Irish history, Histoire de l’Irlande: De 1912 à nos jours.

Quotes

“This book is a superb biography of Owen McCann, the first South African Catholic cardinal. It is also an insightful picture of the complexities of church-state relations during the apartheid era, depicting both the perspectives of Vatican diplomats and South African prelates caught between the politics of survival in what was an often anti-Catholic environment and the demands of conscience. ” —Anthony Egan SJ, author of God’s Universe, Our Responsibility

“Owen McCann is unquestionably one of the two most important Catholic figures in southern Africa in the second half of the twentieth century, not simply in ecclesiastical terms but on the wider political stage. There is no question in my mind that this book will make an important contribution not only to the history of South African Catholicism, and the social history of South African Catholics, but to the history of South Africa.” —Colin Barr, author of Ireland’s Empire

“McCann’s life is described as it unfolded in the pre-Vatican II years, and those immediately following the council, and the implementation of Vatican II’s theology in South Africa, particularly in McCann’s archdiocese. The juxtaposition of these two ‘histories,’ national and ecclesiastical, as they shaped this man make the book something unique and significant in the increasing literature of this period of South Africa’s history.” —Sr. Brigid Rose Tiernan, author of Journey under the Southern Cross

9780268211370

Pub Date: 10/15/2026

$25.00

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134 Pages

8.5 in H | 5.5 in W

Religion / Christianity

On the Spirit and Essence of Catholicism

Johann Sebastian Drey, Grant Kaplan (translator), Jordan Daniel Wood (translator)

Summary

A long-awaited English translation of a landmark work in modern Catholic thought that powerfully reframes Catholicism as a living tradition.

On the Spirit and Essence of Catholicism presents the first English-language translation of Johann Sebastian Drey’s influential 1819 essays about Catholic Christianity. The founder of the Catholic Tübingen School and a pioneer of fundamental theology, Drey locates the essence of Catholicism not in any single doctrine but in how the Church lives its continuity between past and present. Central to this vision is his original account of living tradition: Christianity as a reality embodied, transmitted, and continually renewed through the person of Christ, who reveals a God still living and active.

This volume pairs Drey’s essays with a substantial introduction that situates the work within its nineteenth-century intellectual, ecclesial, and philosophical context. Together, the translation and introduction show why On the Spirit and Essence of Catholicism served as a programmatic text for a new theological movement and why it continues to shape debates about tradition, history, and ecclesial identity

This edition reintroduces a generative theological classic, inviting readers into one of the most influential modern reflections on Catholic tradition, the Church, and the development of doctrine.

Contributor Bios

Johann Sebastian Drey (1777–1853) was a German Catholic professor of theology at the University of Tübingen and one of two founders of the Catholic Tübingen School. He is renowned for his writings and teachings in fundamental theology and theological apologetics.

Grant Kaplan is a professor of systematic and historical theology at Saint Louis University. He is the author, most recently, of Faith and Reason through Christian History

Jordan Daniel Wood is assistant professor of theology at Belmont University. He is the author of The Whole Mystery of Christ.

Quotes

“This translation of Johann Sebastian Drey’s On the Spirit and Essence of Catholicism marks an important, and in many ways long overdue, contribution to the study of modern theology and modern Catholic thought. Drey’s text has played a foundational, if often under-recognized, role in the development of modern Catholic ecclesiology and pneumatology, making it a crucial resource for understanding the background and reception of the Second Vatican Council.” —Kevin M. Vander Schel, author of Embedded Grace

“Drey stands as a major figure in modern Catholic theology—often regarded as a precursor of twentieth-century nouvelle théologie and of the intellectual currents that culminated in Vatican II. Due to this, this book will be of great relevance not only to students of Catholic theology but also to scholars of modern theology more broadly, church history, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual and religious history.” —Thomas Albert Howard, author of Broken Altars

9780268211103

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

$55.00

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216 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W

Religion / Christianity

Doubting Thomas

Early Franciscan Disputes with Aquinas

Brendan W. Case

Summary

Doubting Thomas presents a deep analysis of four key debates between Aquinas and his contemporaries, offering a fresh perspective on behalf of the saint’s major critics.

While Thomas Aquinas remains by far the most influential philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages, many of his contemporaries considered him a dangerous innovator whose enthusiasm for the newly rediscovered Aristotle at points led him astray. Some theologians of the Franciscan Order, especially, were vocal critics of his thought.

In Doubting Thomas, Brendan W. Case examines four interrelated critiques of Aquinas leveled by Franciscan theologians Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and his student Peter John Olivi over the nature of human knowledge, the proper way to understand how unity and trinity relate in God, the nature of time, and the nature of matter and its relation to spiritual beings. By arguing that the Franciscans had the better of Aquinas in each of these debates, Case offers a much-needed corrective to the one-sided focus on Aquinas’s thought in recent theology and philosophy.

Contributor Bio

Brendan W. Case is the associate director for research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, and the author of The Justification of the Sinless: On Supralapsarian Christology and the Goodness of the Incarnation and The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment

Quotes

“This book is masterfully written, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in Christian dogmatics. Case offers a highly worthwhile retrieval of Bonaventure and his early followers, constructively criticizing various positions taken by Aquinas.”

—Matthew Levering, author of Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance

“Doubting Thomas brings to light the philosophical arguments between Bonaventure and Aquinas across a range of issues. This well-written and well-informed book expertly illuminates what was at stake in their disagreements. You will not see the thirteenth century the same way after reading this book.” —Christopher M. Cullen, author of Bonaventure

“It is with good reason that St. Thomas Aquinas has been named the Common Doctor of the Church. However, as Brendan W. Case argues in his insightful and provocative book, it is for equally good reasons that St. Thomas has not been named the only doctor of the Catholic Church. Theologians of all stripes will benefit, therefore, from Case’s engaging and detailed display of the numerous theological gifts on offer from St. Bonaventure, Blessed John Duns Scotus, and the wider Franciscan tradition.” —T. Adam Van Wart, author of Neither Nature nor Grace

9780268211202

Pub Date: 9/15/2026

$65.00

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Hardcover

312 Pages

1 table 9 in H | 6 in W

Religion / Christian Theology

Aquinas on Moral Responsibility

Peter Furlong

Summary

Peter Furlong presents the first systematic study of Thomas Aquinas’s account of moral responsibility.

Aquinas on Moral Responsibility explores how Aquinas understands what it means to be morally responsible. Rather than focusing narrowly on freedom of the will alone, Furlong reconstructs Aquinas’s view by examining the practices through which we hold each other responsible, such as praise and blame or reward and punishment. These practices, he argues, are central to understanding what it means to be morally responsible in light of one’s actions.

The book opens by clarifying Aquinas’s conception of moral responsibility itself before asking what sort of control must someone possess over their actions in order to be responsible for them. Furlong argues that Aquinas adopts a version of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities, in which agents are responsible for their actions only if they could have done otherwise. He also defends an incompatibilist interpretation of Aquinas, arguing that moral responsibility is incompatible with determinism.

Furlong considers, through Aquinas, the ways in which a theory of moral responsibility must take into account ignorance, our settled character, luck, and passions. The result is a unified and carefully argued interpretation of Aquinas’s enduring contributions to debates about freedom and moral responsibility

Contributor Bio

Peter Furlong is a professor of philosophy at Valencia College. He is the author of The Challenges of Divine Determinism.

Quotes

“This is a well-written book by a serious scholar who is clearly well versed in Aquinas’s texts, the secondary literature, and debates surrounding Aquinas himself, who is also conversant with the discussion surrounding similar questions in contemporary analytic philosophy. Furlong offers novel and interesting interpretations of Aquinas’s position.” —Angela McKay Knobel, author of Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues

“The book strikes careful balances between attention to the text and philosophical discussion. Furlong has a particular talent for making clear distinctions and keeping distinct issues distinct when many other scholars confuse them. While he offers a broad overview of Aquinas’s thought, the treatment is never superficial.”

—Jeffrey Hause, co-editor of Aquinas’s Basic Works

9780268211332

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

$60.00

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280 Pages

34 graphs, 12 tables 9 in H | 6 in W

Political Science / Political Process

Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Political Institutions and Party System Change in Chile

Competition, Realignment, and Breakdown

Eduardo Alemán

Summary

Eduardo Alemán provides a definitive institutional account of how Chile’s party system was remade—and ultimately undone—after authoritarian rule.

In Political Institutions and Party System Change in Chile, Eduardo Alemán offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of Chile’s party system, tracing its evolution from the 1930s through the early 2020s. He begins with an analysis of how parties interacted before 1973, establishing a historical baseline both for understanding how the post-authoritarian configuration diverged from its predecessors and for tracing how patterns of competition evolved. Alemán then examines how a major realignment following the end of military rule (1973–1990) produced a distinctive, remarkably stable post-authoritarian party system and investigates why that system unraveled nearly three decades later.

Drawing from extensive original data on presidential cabinets, congressional voting, bill initiation, and elections, Alemán explores interparty competition across three core arenas: governmental, electoral, and legislative. He documents the importance of institutional arrangements inherited from the military regime by the new government and dissects how the 2015 electoral reform that eliminated the binomial system contributed to its demise.

Ultimately, Alemán challenges sociological and continuity-based interpretations of Chilean politics and presents a conceptual framework for analyzing stability and change in party systems more broadly.

Contributor Bio

Eduardo Alemán is professor of political science at the University of Houston. His research focuses on political institutions, parties, and legislative politics, particularly in Latin America. His most recent book is The Law and Politics of Constitution Making: Lessons from Chile, coedited with Sebastián Soto Velasco.

Quotes

“Political Institutions and Party System Change in Chile is essential for academics studying the effects of electoral reforms on the functioning and morphology of the party system. Likewise, the book is indispensable for scholars focusing on Chilean and Latin American legislative politics, especially because its quantitative and systematic approach examines a historical period that has been analyzed mostly from a qualitative or descriptive perspective.” —Adrés Dockendorff, University of Chile

9780268208806

Pub Date: 10/1/2026

$29.00

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632 Pages

7 maps

9.2 in H | 6.1 in W

Fiction / Historical

Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

March 1917

The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz (translator)

New in Paperback

In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos.

One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917—the third node—chronicles the mayhem, day by day, of the Russian Revolution. Book 4 presents, for the first time in English, the conclusion of this four-volume revolutionary saga.

The action of Book 4 is set during March 23–31, 1917. Book 4 portrays a cast of thousands in motion and agitation as every stratum of Russian society—the army on the front lines, the countryside, the Volga merchants, the Don Cossacks, the Orthodox Church—is racked by the confusing new reality Soldiers start to fraternize across trenches with the enemy. The Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the emperor’s uncle, arrives at military headquarters to assume the supreme command but is promptly dismissed by the new Provisional Government. Even this government holds no power, for at every step it is cowed and hemmed in by a self-proclaimed and unaccountable Executive Committee acting in the name of the Soviets—councils of workers and soldiers Yet the Soviets themselves are divided—on whether to call for an end to the war or for its continuation, on whether to topple the Provisional Government or to let it try to govern. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, Lenin quietly dictates his own terms to the German General Staff, setting the stage for his return to Russia.

Contributor Bios

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Nobel Prize laureate in literature, was a Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953. His story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) made him famous, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) further unmasked Communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including In the First Circle, Cancer Ward, The Red Wheel epic, The Oak and the Calf, and the two-volume Between Two Millstones memoir.

Marian Schwartz is a prizewinning translator of classic and contemporary Russian literature, including works by Leo Tolstoy, Nina Berberova, Olga Slavnikova, and Leonid Yuzefovich.

Quotes

“Solzhenitsyn crafts 655 brief chapters in which diverse actors, unaware of what others are doing, blindly shape events. . . . [His] novel allows us to glimpse those deeper meanings and elusive powers.” —Wall Street Journal

“A work that combines deep civic and spiritual wisdom, literary art of high quality, and dramatic history that informs and instructs, The Red Wheel deserves a readership that is receptive to its enduring lessons. With the publication of the whole of March 1917, those lessons are much easier to discern.” —Law & Liberty

“Newspaper excerpts, military orders, screenplays, and biographies of real figures augment the fictional voices. Solzhenitsyn is everywhere and nowhere, like the spirit of the revolution or the God it replaces.” —The Lamp

9780268201906

Pub Date: 12/15/2026

$22.00

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200 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W

Political Science / Security (National & International)

Future Peace

Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War

Robert H. Latiff

New in Paperback

Future Peace urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and is an impassioned plea for peace from an individual who spent decades preparing for war.

Today’s militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of science fiction writers. In a world where these complex technologies clash with escalating international tensions, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, the eagerly awaited sequel to Future War, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the United States and its adversaries, our globally deployed and thinly stretched military, the capacity for advanced technology to catalyze violence, and the American public’s lack of familiarity with these topics.

Future Peace describes the many provocations to violence and how technologies are abetting those urges, and it explores what can be done to mitigate not only dangerous human behaviors but also dangerous technical behaviors. Latiff concludes that peace is possible but will require intense, cooperative efforts on the part of technologists, military leaders, diplomats, politicians, and citizens. Future Peace amplifies some well-known ideas about how to address the issues, and provides far-, mid-, and short-term recommendations for actions that are necessary to reverse the apparent headlong rush into conflict.

Contributor Bio

Major General (Ret.) Robert H. Latiff is adjunct professor with the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame and research professor at George Mason University. He is the author of Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

Quotes

“Latiff suggests that national militaries build machines they do not and cannot entirely understand and whose behavior they may not be able to predict within the complex interactions comprising modern warfare. . . . Anyone interested in national and international security should read this book, from citizen scholars to politicians to specialists in military affairs.” Choice

“Future Peace is a prophetic work that calls government, military, industry, and technology leaders, along with concerned citizens, not only to recognize this important inflection point but also to act urgently. Our national and global future peace may depend on it.” Naval War College Review

“This book draws attention to the increasing reliance on technology and advanced weaponry in warfare, which can circumvent human decision making and expedite war before diplomacy and the human element has time to prevent it.” —Veterans Today

9780268208684

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

$35.00

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416 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W

Religion / Religion, Politics & State

Ending Persecution

Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom

H.Knox

Thames

New in Paperback

Building on his extensive experience in the U.S. government and as an international human rights lawyer, H. Knox Thames provides fresh, decisive strategies to advance religious freedom for all.

Today, a scourge of religious persecution is impacting every faith community around the globe. In Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom, author H. Knox Thames takes readers to some of the world's most repressive countries in the Middle East and Asia, exposing the harsh reality of religious repression Thames breaks down the devastating litany of human rights abuses faced by religious groups in these countries into four major types of persecution: terrorism in the Middle East, government-sponsored genocides in China and Burma, cultural changes due to extremism in Pakistan, and tyrannical democracy in Nepal and India.

Ending Persecution recounts the range of tools and policies that the U.S. government has used to encourage reform in repressive governments, leverage U.S. influence for the oppressed, and reflect the best of American values of diversity, minority rights, and religious freedom. To help the persecuted in the twenty-first century, Thames argues, the United States must revitalize its approach and recommit to ending oppression by supporting coalition building and interfaith tolerance.

Contributor Bio

H.Knox Thames is an international human rights lawyer and advocate who served for twenty years in the U.S. government across multiple administrations, most recently in the Obama and Trump administrations as a State Department special envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East and South/Central Asia. He is currently a senior fellow at Pepperdine University.

Quotes

“A fascinating mix of memoir of Thames’s government service, policy analysis drawn largely from that experience, and general introduction to the world of international religious-freedom advocacy.” National Review

“Thames has brought a deeply personal perspective to his new book, called Ending Persecution. It’s a book that defies neat categorization. He has produced a page-turning narrative, a unique behind-the-scenes look at the complex world of international religious freedom advocacy.” Law & Liberty

“Ending Persecution is a thoughtful and interesting look into a specific way of engaging it. Hopefully, the book will spark many conversations that culminate in creative approaches to solving the ‘pandemic of persecution’ that so many religiously faithful around the world currently endure.” Public Discourse

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Political Science / History & Theory

Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law

Steven D. Smith

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Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.

Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life—“cancel culture,” the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law argues that these diverse problems are all a consequence of what Hannah Arendt described as the disappearance of authority in the modern world. In this perceptive study, Steven D. Smith offers a diagnosis explaining how authority today is based in pervasive fictions and how this situation can amount to, as Arendt put it, “the loss of the groundwork of the world.”

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law considers a variety of problems posed by the paradoxical ubiquity and absence of authority in the modern world. Some of these problems are jurisprudential or philosophical in character; others are more practical and lawyerly—problems of presidential powers and statutory and constitutional interpretation; still others might be called existential. Smith’s use of fictions as his purchase for thinking about authority has the potential to bring together the descriptive and the normative and to think about authority as a useful hypothesis that helps us to make sense of the empirical world. This strikingly original book shows that theoretical issues of authority have important practical implications for the kinds of everyday issues confronted by judges, lawyers, and other members of society.

Contributor Bio

Steven D. Smith, winner of the 2022 Religious Liberty Initiative Scholarship Award, is formerly the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, co-executive director of the Institute for Law and Religion, and the co-executive director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, including The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic and The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity.

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“[This book’s] intelligence, clarity, and candor make it a ﬁne example of what a work of legal theory ought to be. Although legal authority has been much studied, Smith sheds new light on it.” —The Review of Politics

“As Smith argues, a good legal fiction must be both plausible and beneficial, else we have little reason to play along with it. But what makes the fiction plausible?”

Public Discourse

9780268109134

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Political Science / History & Theory

Reason and Politics

The Nature of Political Phenomena Mark Blitz

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Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, by extension, of human affairs in general.

Amidst the seemingly endless books on more and more narrowly specialized topics within politics, Mark Blitz offers something very different. Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena examines the central phenomena of political life in order to clarify their meaning, source, and range. Blitz gives particular attention to the notions of freedom, rights, justice, virtue, power, property, nationalism, and the common good. At the same time, Blitz shows how, in order to understand political matters correctly, we must also understand how they affect us directly. We do not merely theorize over political questions; we experience them. Blitz also considers matters such as the powers and motions of the soul, the nature of experience, and the varieties of pleasure and attachment.

Living at a time when technological change makes it difficult even to claim convincingly that there are defining human characteristics and natural limits that we simply cannot change, Reason and Politics proposes that there are in fact basic phenomena not only in politics, but that make up human affairs as such. In examining these central phenomena in a lucid and articulate manner, this book makes a unique contribution not only to the study of politics but also to the study of philosophy more broadly.

Contributor Bio

Mark Blitz is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of numerous books, including Aristotle's Political Philosophy.

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“In the course of this remarkable study, we learn that self-knowledge in our ‘postmodern’ condition requires seeing ourselves in light of both ancient politics and ancient philosophy; the former is the historical moment that provides the essential touchstone for serious trans-historical comparison of human experience and the latter is the way of seeing and thinking most suited to grasping the nature of things.” Perspectives on Political Science

“Mark Blitz has written a work of high political philosophy that is at once clear and accessible. . . . Reason and Politics is dedicated to uncovering reasonably that which ‘forms and directs’ political phenomena, in a word their nature and everything that flows from that. While a product of unforced but altogether impressive erudition, Blitz’s book aims to stay as concrete as possible, eschewing the abstractions that largely inform and deform late modern thought.” Law & Liberty

“Blitz makes a strong case for a phenomenological approach to the study of politics. . . . [He] offers a radical, thought-provoking departure from the reigning orthodoxies of the profession.” Choice

9780268208349

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Religion / Christian Theology

A Theology of Health

Wholeness and Human Flourishing

Tyler J. VanderWeele

New in Paperback

While the health of the body can be defined by its functioning parts and systems, the health of the person is more complex. To flourish, we need to understand health in the context of God’s intent.

A Theology of Health presents a Christian understanding of the very concept of health, both the health of the body and the health of the person. Preeminent scholar Tyler J. VanderWeele argues that health can be understood as wholeness as intended by God and that sin—whether individual wrongdoing, societal injustice, or the fallenness of creation—causes ill health. VanderWeele explains that restoration and fulfillment of health is salvation, pointed toward in the life of Jesus Christ, to be lived out through the work of the Church, and for which we await final completion. VanderWeele also demonstrates the broader relevance and implications of his insights to all who seek to understand health, well-being, and the ultimate ends of human life.

A Theology of Health is an essential theological exploration that seeks to promote health, healing, and flourishing of the whole person.

Contributor Bio

Tyler J. VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and director of the Human Flourishing Program and co-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He is author and co-author of several books, including Measuring Well-Being and the Handbook of Religion and Health.

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“A watershed book. . . . If this book is given its due, it could mark the beginning of a new and even stunning moment—one that makes space for explicitly theological ideas and reflection within the highest-level academic discussions of health.”

Public Discourse

“VanderWeele provides scholars in health-related fields with a robust, comprehensive, and theologically rich framework for understanding human flourishing.”

The Gospel Coalition

9780268208561

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Religion / Christian Theology

Theology of Horror

The Hidden Depths of Popular Films

Ryan G. Duns, SJ

New in Paperback

Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes.

Horror films scare and entertain us, but there’s more to be found in their narratives than simple thrills. Within their shadows, an attentive viewer can glimpse unexpected flashes of orthodox Christian belief. In Theology of Horror, Ryan G. Duns, SJ, invites readers to undertake an unconventional pilgrimage in search of these buried theological insights.

Duns uses fifteen classic and contemporary horror films—including The Blair Witch Project, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, and The Purge—as doorways to deeper reflection. Each chapter focuses on a single film, teasing out its implicit philosophical and theological themes. As the reader journeys through the text, a surprisingly robust theological worldview begins to take shape as glimmers of divine light emerge from the darkness. Engaging and accessible, Theology of Horror proves that, rather than being the domain of nihilists or atheists, the horror film genre can be an opportunity for reflecting on “things visible and invisible,” as Christians profess in the Nicene Creed.

Contributor Bio

Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is an associate professor of theology at Marquette University. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is the author of Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God

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“Theology of Horror has much to teach, both in the author’s approaches to particular titles and in the wider lessons he draws from any one film. Beyond its undoubted contribution to theological discussion, the book will stir fevered conversations among horror fans who are immersed in the genre.” The Christian Century

9780268208127

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Religion / Christianity

The Saint’s Life and the Senses of Scripture

Hagiography as Exegesis

Ann W. Astell

New in Paperback

Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies.

Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor.

Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.

Contributor Bio

Ann W. Astell is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of many books, including Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages, and the editor of Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality

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“Astell seeks to frame hagiography as a form of biblical exegesis, shifting debate about the genre into new territory. In this reviewer’s estimation, the shift will be enriching for both hagiography’s detractors and its defenders.” —First Things

“Astell’s book further emphasises the importance of analysing hagiography for more than just the ‘historical sense’ and demonstrates the potential rewards for scholars from a range of disciplines of taking the Scriptural dimension of saints’ Lives seriously.” Irish Theological Quarterly

“Though Astell’s focus is hagiography, her aspirations extend to biblical interpretation. She ‘hope[s] that a renewed biblical scholarship, combining historical-critical methods with an exegetical theology conscious of a long, living history of biblical reception, will find its partner in a renewed hagiography.’ This wide-ranging and well-documented work provides valuable resources in support of achieving that goal. ”

Theological Studies

9780268102869

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Religion / Christianity

Series: The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature

Meditations on the Life of Christ

The Short Italian Text

Sarah McNamer

New in Paperback

A critical edition of a never-before-published Italian text likely to be the original version of the influential masterpiece, The Meditations on the Life of Christ.

The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the Meditations had a major impact on devotional practices, religious art, meditative literature, vernacular drama, and the cultivation of affective experience.

The Meditationson theLifeof Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative realism, its poignant and moving depictions of the Nativity and Passion, and its direct appeals to the reader to feel love and compassion, the Meditations had a major impact on devotional practices, religious art, meditative literature, vernacular drama, and the cultivation of affective experience.

This volume is a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of the Italian text that McNamer argues is likely to be the original version of this influential masterpiece. Livelier and far more compact than the Latin text, the Italian “short text” possesses a stylistic and textual integrity that appears to testify to its primacy among early versions of the Meditations. The evidence also suggests that it was composed by a woman, a Poor Clare from Pisa—an author whose work McNamer contends was obscured by the anonymous Franciscan friar who subsequently altered and expanded the text. In bringing to light this unique Italian version and building a case for its origins and importance, this book will encourage a fresh look at the Meditations and serve as a foundation for further scholarship and debate concerning some of the most compelling subjects in Italian and European literary and cultural history, including the role of women in the invention of new genres and spiritual practices, the early development of Italian prose narrative, the rise of vernacular theology, and the history of emotion.

Contributor Bio

Sarah McNamer is professor of English and medieval studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion.

Sarah McNamer is professor of English and medieval studies at Georgetown University. Sheis theauthorof AffectiveMeditation and the Inventionof Medieval Compassion (2010).

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“McNamer’s work truly marks an important contribution to the knowledge of the Italian Renaissance, as it brings to the attention of the reader and scholar a work that profoundly marks the piety, the practice of reading, the religiosity of Italians in a crucial period of modern history.” —Italian Culture

"This is a publication that in addition to providing a much-needed edition of a significant text of central Italian medieval devotional literature, will soon become a model for studies in vernacular theology, women's literature, and Franciscanism."

Sixteenth Century Journal

“This is a publication that in addition to providing a much-needed edition of a significant text of central Italian medieval devotional literature, will soon become a model for studies in vernacular theology, women's literature, and Franciscanism.” —Sixteenth Century Journal

"McNamer’s work is an exciting contribution, not only to medieval scholarship but to the academy many of us would like to build." —Speculum

“McNamer’s work is an exciting contribution, not only to medieval scholarship but to the academy many of us would like to build.” —Speculum

"McNamer’s compelling arguments have already changed our understanding of the MVC and its reception.” —The Catholic Historical Review

"But if McNamer’s claims are sustained by further research, she will have restored a classic to early fourteenth-century devotional literature. Her work is a groundbreaking contribution to vernacular devotional writing in Italian, and will both stir and shape debate on the MVC for years to come." —RenaissanceQuarterly

"By arguing for the authorship of the earliest form of the Meditationes byaPoorClare, McNamer situates a woman as being the most influential devotional writer of the late

9780268203306

Pub Date: 11/15/2026

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Religion / Christian Church

Martin Luther and the Council of Trent

The Battle over Scripture and the Doctrine of Justification

Peter M. Folan, SJ

New in Paperback

Seeking to understand the doctrine of justification by way of biblical hermeneutics, this book uncovers the differences between Martin Luther and the Council of Trent that set them on a collision course for conflict, and the church toward what has arguably been its most significant division in the West.

As Catholics and Lutherans continue to engage in dialogue about their shared faith and differing confessions, the need remains for a discerning study of the ways in which the Bible functioned in the Reformation’s central theological clash: the understanding and import of the doctrine of justification. Peter Folan’s incisive analysis in this volume fulfills that need. Through a careful reading of the debate’s most significant texts, he shows both how Martin Luther and the Council of Trent relied upon scripture to arrive at their respective formulations of the doctrine and how such seemingly divergent conclusions about the human person’s salvation in Christ could be grounded in the same sacred book.

This study begins with an examination of the key texts that Luther and his allies produced on justification and then turns to their Catholic respondents, whose work would ultimately inform the Council of Trent’s decree on the doctrine. By comparing precisely which texts both parties relied upon to articulate and defend their positions, Folan puts into sharp relief how infrequently both sides made use of the same biblical passages and, when they did avail themselves of the same passages, just how distinct their interpretive tendencies were.

Contributor Bio

Peter M. Folan, SJ, is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University.

Quotes

“Martin Luther and the Council of Trent: The Battle over Scripture and the Doctrine of Justification is a masterful exploration of how scriptural hermeneutics and citations create both doctrinal consensus and doctrinal disagreement.” Reading Religion

“The ecumenical dialogue needs a thorough study of the ways the Bible was read in the Reformer’s central theological debate on justification, which is precisely what this book offers.” Heythrop Journal

9780268107581

Pub Date: 11/15/2026

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Religion / Christian Theology

The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar An

Introduction

Brendan McInerny

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Brendan McInerny provides the first complete examination of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s trinitarian theology.

Although scholarship has long recognized the centrality of the Trinity in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, no sustained treatment of this theme has been published until now. In this insightful book, The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Brendan McInerny fills this gap, situating Balthasar’s trinitarian theology in conversation with both the wider Christian theological tradition and his non-Christian intellectual contemporaries. Drawing from across Balthasar’s extensive body of works, McInerny argues that Balthasar’s vivid description of the immanent Trinity provides a way to speak of how “God is love” in himself, beyond his relationship to creatures. He then shows how Balthasar’s speculation into the immanent Trinity serves as the substructure of his theology of deification. For Balthasar, what we say about the inner life of God matters because we are called to share in that very life through Christ and the Holy Spirit, to the glory of God the Father.

Finally, responding to the criticisms that Balthasar’s speculations into the inner life of God are without warrant, McInerny argues that Balthasar’s bold trinitarian claims are actually a vehicle for apophatic theology. Balthasar’s vivid description of the triune God does not transgress the boundaries of theological discourse. Rather, it manifests God’s ever-greater incomprehensibility through verbal excess, oxymoron, and paradox.

Contributor Bio

Brendan McInerny teaches theology at Holy Family Catholic High School in Victoria, Minnesota. He has published and lectured widely on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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“The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar is a welcome contribution not only in further promoting Balthasar’s original thought but also in reinforcing the role of traditional Catholic doctrine in contemporary theology.” —Jacques Servais, S.J., President of the Lubac-Balthasar-Speyr Association

9780268107260

Pub Date: 8/15/2026

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Religion / Comparative Religion

Muhammad Reconsidered A

Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy

Anna Bonta Moreland

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Muhammad Reconsidered rectifies the failures of scholarly attempts to understand Islam in the West and to take Islamic theology seriously.

Engaging Islam from deep within the Christian tradition by addressing the question of the prophethood of Muhammad, Anna Bonta Moreland calls for a retrieval of Thomistic thought on prophecy. Without either appropriating the prophet as an unwitting Christian or reducing both Christianity and Islam to a common denominator, Moreland studies Muhammad within a Christian theology of revelation. This lens leads to a more sophisticated understanding of Islam, one that honors the integrity of the Catholic tradition and argues for the possibility in principle of Muhammad as a religious prophet.

Moreland sets the stage for this inquiry through an intertextual reading of the key Vatican II documents on Islam and on Christian revelation. She then uses Aquinas’s treatment of prophecy to address the case of whether Muhammad is a prophet in Christian terms. Muhammad Reconsidered examines the work of several Christian theologians, including W. Montgomery Watt, Hans Küng, Kenneth Cragg, David Kerr, and Jacques Jomier, O.P., and then draws upon the practice of analogical reasoning in the theology of religious pluralism to show that a term in one religion—in this case “prophecy”—can have purchase in another religious tradition.

Contributor Bio

Anna Bonta Moreland is the Anne Quinn Welsh Endowed Chair and director of the University Honors Program at Villanova University. She is the author of Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge of God.

Quotes

“Moreland begins this book by taking issue with Samuel Huntington’s well-known essay/book The Clash of Civilizations (1993/1996). Huntington argued that there was a fundamental incompatibility between Islamic cultures and Western cultures influenced by Christianity. Moreland argues, contra Huntington, that Christians and Muslims can dialogue about Mohammed from a Christian perspective on Islamic prophecy.” Choice

“Anna Moreland’s illuminating and powerfully argued book is essential reading for anyone concerned about how Catholic Christians should engage with their Muslim neighbors. It provides an insightful and badly needed account of how, according to Aquinas, God communicates through prophetic utterances and acts. This is theology at its best.” —Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue and Dependent Rational Animals

9780268107024

Pub Date: 12/15/2026

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Religion / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict

Jesuit Kaddish

Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance

James Bernauer, S.J.

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Jesuit Kaddish is a long overdue study that examines Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Shoah and the development of a new understanding of the Catholic Church’s relation to Judaism that culminated with Vatican II’s landmark decree Nostra aetate.

While much has been written about the Catholic Church and the Holocaust, little has been published about the hostile role of priests, in particular Jesuits, toward Jews and Judaism. James Bernauer undertakes a self-examination as a member of the Jesuit order and writes this story in the hopes that it will contribute to interreligious reconciliation. Jesuit Kaddish demonstrates the way Jesuit hostility operated, examining Jesuit moral theology’s dualistic approach to sexuality and, in the case of Nazi Germany, the articulation of an unholy alliance between a sexualizing and a Judaizing of German culture. Bernauer then identifies an influential group of Jesuits whose thought and action contributed to the developments in Catholic teaching about Judaism that eventually led to the watershed moment of Nostra aetate

Bernauer concludes with a proposed statement of repentance from the Jesuits and an appendix presenting the sixteen Jesuits who have been honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Center. His book represents a crucial contribution to the fields of Catholicism and Nazism, Catholic-Jewish relations, Jesuit history, and the history of anti-Semitism in Europe.

Contributor Bio

James Bernauer, S.J., is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and former director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of a number of books, including “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits.

Quotes

“Jesuit Kaddish is an incisive and lucid work of ‘memory activism’ examining the Holocaust and the Jesuits. . . . This is not simply a book about Jesuits and Jews. Rather, it is permeated with Jesuit sensibilities and spirituality—and a summons to the Society of Jesus to formulate a statement of repentance.” —Theological Studies

“[This] is a powerful book that brings together a number of significant themes—some in novel ways—and reflects the state of the field as well as an enviable scholarly career that has deepened our understanding of Jesuit history, anti-Semitism, and JewishChristian relations in modern history.” —Journal of Jesuit Studies

9780933784499

Pub Date: 1/15/2026

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536 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W

Fiction / World Literature

Series: NCS Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Volume 47

Michelle Karnes (editor), Misty Schieberle (editor) Summary

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is an annual publication of the New Chaucer Society, publishing scholarly articles along with book reviews and a bibliography of recent criticism. Articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500) and analyze works written in Middle English, French, Latin, Hebrew, or any of the other languages that circulated in medieval Britain. In alternate years, SAC publishes the presidential address and plenary lecture from the biennial NCS congress.

Contributor Bios

Michelle Karnes, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages

Misty Schieberle is associate professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author of Feminized Counsel and the Literature of Advice in England, 1380–1500.

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Fintan O’Toole, Sam McBride

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Why Religious Freedom Matters Human Rights and Human Flourishing

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Aristotle’s Political Philosophy

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Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

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Cardinal Owen McCann

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Fusionism

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Martin Luther and the Council of Trent

Meditations on the Life of Christ

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CANADA ORDERING INFORMATION

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Starting July 1st: INGRAM ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL

FIELD SALES

LESLIE JOBSON

Senior Manager, Field Sales

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CHITHRA VEDANTAM

Sales Rep

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SPECIAL AND GIFT SALES

SPECIALTY RETAIL & GIFT SALES

Gift Sales Manager

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SANDY HERNANDEZ

Senior Manager, Special Markets

Email: sandy.hernandez@ingramcontent.com

STEVE QUINN

Sales Manager, Specialty Retail

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TOM LUPOFF

Sales Representative, Special Markets

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MOLLIE SILVERMAN

Gift Sales Manager

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Email: enquiries@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Website: https://mngbookshop.co.uk

FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Starting July 1

ALEXIA CERVELLO

Sales Specialist

1400 Broadway, Suite 3200

New York, NY 10018

alexia.cervello@ingramcontent.com

ORDERS CUSTOMER SER9ICE

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PHONE: 800-848-6224 or 919-966-7449

FAX: 800-272-6817 or 919-962-2704

EMAIL: orders@longleafservices.org

EMAIL INQUIRIES

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Starting July 1, the University of Notre Dame Press will be distributed to the trade by Ingram Academic & Professional, an Ingram brand. Ingram Content Group LLC One Ingram Blvd. La Vergne, TN 37086

PHONE: 866-400-5351

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PAYMENTS

Payment by check, money order, or major credit card is required for all individual orders. Only checks in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. bank accounts accepted. Libraries and bookstores will be invoiced when orders are accompanied by purchase orders.

E;AMINATION DES. COPY RE4U ESTS

Notre Dame Press books are a valuable resource for classrooms. Instructors who have adopted or are considering a book for course use are encouraged to request desk or examination copies by completing the form available at: undpress.nd.edu/exam-copies

RETURNS

Permission to return overstock is not required provided books are returned within eighteen months of sale. Books must be clean, undamaged, and saleable copies of titles currently in print as listed on our website. Full credit allowed if customer supplies copy of original invoice or correct invoice number; otherwise maximum discount applies. Please send books prepaid and carefully packed via a traceable method.

PHOTOCOPY PERMISSION

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PHONE: (978) 750-8400

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SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS

Paul Ashenfelter

PHONE: (574) 631-7415

EMAIL: pashenfe@nd.edu

Prices and details provided in this catalog are subject to change without notice. Please visit our website or contact your sales representative for price and discount information. All prices are in US$

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EBOOKS

The University of Notre Dame Press is committed to making our scholarly materials available in a full range of digital formats—those that currently exist and those that will be developed in the future—to reach a worldwide community of readers. Whether you own a Kindle, Nook, iPad, or other reading device, you can read University of Notre Dame Press ebooks using any of the following retail channels (and more!):

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Print and digital review copies for books in this catalog may also be ordered through Edelweiss, the ]interactive service from Above the Treeline. http://edelweiss.plus.com