Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tri…
As the author have thought about how to introduce the essays that follow, he have been drawn again and again to a trio of photographs that hangs on his Office wall. The first two are clearly relate…
Scholars recognize Anselm as the most influential Christian intellectual between Augustine and Aquinas. In Anselm: The Joy of Faith, William H. Shannon highlights the prodigious writings and provid…
St. Francis of Assisi is surely one of the best loved of all saints, and in this new Life the author gives a wonderful portrait of Francis and indeed the whole colourful countryside of medieval Ita…
St. Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to New York and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro…
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was one of the preeminent religious figures of the nineteen century, whose influence today is broad and ongoing. A leading Anglican churchman, he created a stir when h…
After Pope Benedict XVI's historic renunciation of the papal office in February 2013, the College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio - now Pope Francis - as the new leader of the world's es…
St. Bonaventure was a great saint. He also was a crucial successor to St. Francis, because his emphasis on academic learning transformed the Franciscan Order. While St. Francis was a respectably ed…
This book is about the introduction the life of St.Francis, the crucial role which it played in the turbulent early histoy of the Franciscan Order, its historical values, its Latin and Italian ver…
The central insight of this book is that Newman's intellectual stance-his theory and practice of inqury, argument, interpretation and judgment, is persistently and throughly rhetorical. Unlike prev…