An Essay by Graham McAleer
December 6, 2024
Today, we are delighted to share an essay by Graham McAleer, discussing his new book Tolkien, Philosopher of War!Category: Book Features
Q&A with Robert Dobie
October 24, 2024
Robert J. Dobie is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at LaSalle University, and author of Thinking through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages and Logos and Revelation: Ibn ‘Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics.
Staff Bookshelf October
October 11, 2024
As we begin to fall into…well, fall, the staff cozies up to some chilling new reads! Featured is a delightful range of genres: post war novels, apocalyptic literature, translated Tolkien works, fantasy, and more. Just like a bowl of Halloween candy, you never know what you might just pick up!
Excerpt From “Why Read Pavel Florensky?”
October 3, 2024
Why, then, read Pavel Florensky? In an era in which pressing concerns of this world—political, social, technological, and material—so easily become all-consuming, Florensky directs us to the “other”—heavenly, divine—world that is always near us and around us but that we so easily miss. As he probes the mystical depth of all that exists, he teaches us to attend also to the “otherness” of the people and things with which we share “this” world—to enter into their unique existence, where we will rediscover ourselves. We will learn to treat the created order with reverence, to live in right relation with one another, and to open ourselves to a transcendent dimension of life.
Q&A with Daniel Waldow
September 12, 2024
In this blog we welcome Daniel Waldow, assistant professor of theology at Saint Francis University, PA, to discuss the the theological impact of his book The Suffering Servant.
Recent Titles from CUA Press
May 23, 2024
Here are some recent titles, hot off the Press!
Excerpt of From the Dust of the Earth
April 26, 2024
Following Ratzinger’s lead, I would say that the question ought not to be how we can defend the faithful against the advances of this science but rather how we can engage in dialogue with it so as to more deeply penetrate the mysteries of the Christian faith and, in turn, illumine the science with our faith.
Q&A with William H. Marshner
April 18, 2024
We are delighted to have William H. Marshner join us on the blog to discuss his newly released translation of Cardinal Cajetan’s Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: Prima Pars. The translation is divided into three separate free-standing volumes. William H. Marshner is Professor Emeritus of Theology, Christendom College, and the editor and translator of Defending the Faith: An Anti-Modernist Anthology (CUA Press).
Q&A with Jonathan R. Heaps
April 12, 2024
One of the most important, but also most challenging arguments in the book is that the actions of rational, free agents (like humans and God) are what they are because of what the agent means by them. And so while the first half of the book is concerned with a metaphysical question about how it can be that God acts in human action, in the second half, we eventually turn to the question, what is God doing in human action? And this question requires that theology be not only a metaphysical enterprise, but also a hermeneutical one. In other words, we need to be able to interpret what God means by what God is doing in human action. And because the earlier part of the book establishes that there are not parts of creation where God is not acting—God, after all, is the maker of “all things”—that means that the data for this hermeneutical project are given not just in some particular “religious” area of human action, nor in one particular institution or one culture or one community, but in and through all of the product of human action in every human community in every place and every time. It means that the theological enterprise, considered at its most fundamental level (and my book is probably best understood as a work of “fundamental theology”), is as wide and deep and tall as human history itself.
Excerpt from Trinitarian Ecclesiology
April 4, 2024
Venerable Fulton Sheen once famously said that “there are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be—which is, of course, quite a different thing.” This is true for people of every nation of the world throughout history since the Church’s founding by Christ. Although the Catholic Church exists in the world and is encountered by people of every nation and tongue, her true nature and mission is nevertheless opaque to most, especially in our modern world that rejects not only divine revelation but even natural knowledge of God obtainable by reason. Rather than perceiving a mystery that contains the presence of God and provides us with the means to attain our perfect happiness in him, many see the Church as an outdated human institution that limits, and even threatens, our freedom. This raises the question of the proper understanding of the Church. What is the nature of the Church and what is her mission? Charles Cardinal Journet, who authored a scientific and sapiential treatise on the Church in the last century, L’Église du Verbe incarné, outlines three different ways of perceiving the Church that correspond to how one regards Christ.