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This collection of 21 articles and a panel discussion reviews and analyses the history and implications of the dualistic paradigm that has characterised Judaism throughout the ages: pluralism and sectarianism, religiosity and secularity, universalism and separatism, reform and uniformity. Particular attention is paid to the history and effects of different religious groups, movements and political trends.

Scrutinizing the claim frequently made by critics that literary forms represent forms of consciousness, Eugene Hollahan attempts in Hopkins Against History a double-edged project. He applies popular critical methods - psychoanalytical, New Historical, interdisciplinary, and the like - as procedures in an examination of that rare poetic spirit Gerard Manley Hopkins.At the same time, and dialectically, the author uses Hopkins's life and oeuvre as a test case or paradigm case by which to measure some of the critical methods that attract much interest today.Hopkins Against History presents a new perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins, the self-conscious unbordered soul struggling against history but in the process becoming a kind of antithetical hero, producing poems in sprung rhythm, a strange new poetic of lasting value.

The ongoing debate over abortion serves as a clear indication that the Supreme Court decision of 1973 did little to settle the question of abortion’s legitimacy. If anything, in fact, the debate has grown, with more strident voices and, in some cases, more violent dimensions than ever before. On both sides, the debate has been dominated by passionate but not always rational arguments. It seems as thought there are no tame opinions about abortion in this country, that public policy is the product of slogans, sound bites, and placards, instead of principled argument. By presenting the balanced, rational argument for the Catholic position on this highly charged subject, Abortion and Public Policy makes a major contribution to public policy discourse in our pluralistic society. R. Randall Rainey, S.J., LL.M., is Senior Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. Gerard Magill Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Health Care Ethics and Director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University.

This text provides an investigation into how the Human Genome Project (HGP) is likely to affect future generations. It examines the implications these effects hold for evaluating HGP and other research efforts like it.

The papers in this collection examine the ways in which Jews have been presented in photography, music, film, television, drama, literature and cultural mythology. The papers were delivered at Creighton University in 1995 as part of the eighth Annual Kluznick Symposium in Jewish Civilization.

Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book eve written by a doctor about his own profession. In it David Hilfiker breaks the silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives us a dramatically personal account of how the family doctor gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his years of rural and urban experience, Dr. Hilfiker lets us all know what it really feels like to be a doctor. What do you do when you make a serious medical mistake? Is it enjoyable to play God? What do you say to a patient who wants reassurance when the essence of diagnosis is uncertainty? What about money? What happens when you patient is taking forever, your waiting room’s full, and you want to get home?

In a Place of Flame is a deeply moving collection of prayers by a victim of incest. Tracing the survivor's journey from trauma to recovery in language powerful and poetic, this book offers a new model of prayer for people of faith who have lived through personal tragedy. By turns lyrical, meditative, comic, and irreverent, the author leads us along a path to self-acceptance. This is a book that promises to become a classic in the literature of self-recovery.

Patients and healthcare providers meet as moral strangers, hence, the conventional wisdom is that clinical interactions are based on mutual respect. Challenging this idea, this book attempts to resore the phenomenon of intersujective, benevolent care.

This work is an investigation of the ongoing methodical reconstruction of Catholic moral theology. As such it is based on and honors the work of Norbert Rigali, S.J., one of the most important contributors to this reconstruction.The decisive break from the traditional manual approach to moral theology represented by Vatican II reoriented moral theology away from universal natural law morality based on the commandments to a morality based on specifically Christian sources. This reorientation, however, was not an either/or but a both/and proposition. Father Norbert Rigali, S.J. has been an inspiration and a challenge to moral theologians working toward reconstruction. This essays in this collection address four questions in the renewal movement: an investigation of normative methods, a clarification of sources, an investigation of the tension between natural law morality and Christian ethics and/or morality, and a combination of methodical insights of philosophy and traditional Christian sources in their investigation of biomedical ethical issues.

This work is an investigation of the ongoing methodical reconstruction of Catholic moral theology. As such it is based on and honors the work of Norbert Rigali, S.J., one of the most important contributors to this reconstruction.The decisive break from the traditional manual approach to moral theology represented by Vatican II reoriented moral theology away from universal natural law morality based on the commandments to a morality based on specifically Christian sources. This reorientation, however, was not an either/or but a both/and proposition. Father Norbert Rigali, S.J. has been an inspiration and a challenge to moral theologians working toward reconstruction. This essays in this collection address four questions in the renewal movement: an investigation of normative methods, a clarification of sources, an investigation of the tension between natural law morality and Christian ethics and/or morality, and a combination of methodical insights of philosophy and traditional Christian sources in their investigation of biomedical ethical issues.

Part clinical case study, part family journal, The Long Road Called Goodbye is a powerful and moving account of one family's thirteen-year struggle with Alzheimer's. This engaging informative book is a closely documented clinical study that reads like a novel, filled with all the feelings, crises, and conflicts experienced by patient and family. It is a story of love, loyalty, perseverance, strength, and dignity. The Long Road Called Goodbye makes a major contribution to the care of AD patients and their families. The book will be of interest to professionals who work with Alzheimer's patients, including physicians, staff at care-giving facilities, and state agencies, as well as to families who struggle with this disease.

Part clinical case study, part family journal, The Long Road Called Goodbye is a powerful and moving account of one family's thirteen-year struggle with Alzheimer's. This engaging informative book is a closely documented clinical study that reads like a novel, filled with all the feelings, crises, and conflicts experienced by patient and family. It is a story of love, loyalty, perseverance, strength, and dignity. The Long Road Called Goodbye makes a major contribution to the care of AD patients and their families. The book will be of interest to professionals who work with Alzheimer's patients, including physicians, staff at care-giving facilities, and state agencies, as well as to families who struggle with this disease.

Medical and ethical decision concerning treatment for handicapped newborns have always been difficult. Despite technological advances, parents and health-care professionals still search for criteria that will address treatment categories from an ethical standpoint. Richard A. McCormick, a leading Roman Catholic moral theologian, has proposed a patient-centered, quality-of-life approach to treatment decision that appears to meet the needs of decision-makers.Peter A. Clark applies McCormick's ethical approach to five categories of handicapped newborns as a practical demonstration of the treatment decision process. "Clark constructs, analyzes, and criticizes McCormick's developing methodology which McCormick himself never explicitly elaborated in his own writings." -Charles E. Curran, Southern Methodist University"Modern neonatology has worked wonders in the care of the newborn. Some of its successes have however resulted in the most difficult clinical and ethical dilemmas. Physicians, families and nurses will need and appreciate Fr. Peter Clark's judicious, sensitive and practical guidance through both the philosophical and the theological issues." - Edmund D. Pellegrino, Georgetown University Medical Center

Redshaw gathers twenty-one original essays on the influential Irish poet and novelist, which provide a critical context for Montague’s Collected Poems (1995) and the tales and portraits in Company (2001). Montague played a pivotal role in the international evolution of Irish poetry from the late 1950s in Dublin through the worst years of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Here, American, English, and European critics and scholars touch upon every aspect of Montague’s essays, stories, and poetry. Redshaw offers a survey of the criticism and a descriptive checklist. "A stunning tribute to a masterful poet [with] seminal essays by some of the finest critics of contemporary Irish poetry . . . mandatory reading."-Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University, President, The American Conference for Irish Studies.

Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in constructing the “story” of theIrish nation. This wide-ranging study of Irish pictures and sculpture opens up the subject byproviding a fresh interdisciplinary approach. Each work is analyzed beyond its strictly arthistorical relevance. A deeper investigation into the context in which a work was producedreveals much about the aspirations and ideological ambitions of artists, those commissioningworks, and the viewing public. The study of such diverse topics as the representation of theIrish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, theerecting of political monuments, Church art, West of Ireland landscape painting, and the differencein nationalistic fervor among artists as diverse as Albert G. Power and Jack B. Yeats unveilfascinating testimony about Ireland’s collective national “needs” and its constructs of identity.

The "Gerard Manley Hopkins Annual, 1992" is published in association with the Hopkins Society, which sponsors the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School held in Montasterevin, a few miles outside Dublin, Ireland. This annual is planned as the first to collect the best writings on Hopkins and his poetry written in a single year. The selections are not restricted to the papers delivered at the Summer School, but rather are chosen to capture its spirit and quality of scholarship. In his introduction to the work, Michael Sundermeier describes the contributions to the 1992 Annual. The first selection by the scholar and writer, Hugh Kenner, makes a surprising comparison between Hopkins and Alexander Pope. In "Hopkins and the County Kildare" Norman White aims to create a three-dimensional portrait of the poet in the later years of his life. Giuseppe Serpillo considers the difficulties of translating Hopkins into Italian. Michael Sundermeier's essay is an attempt to put Hopkins' attitude toward nature in historical perspective and to distinguish it from modern perspectives. The nature and quality of friendship, divine and human, expressed in Hopkins' work is the focus of the essay by Domenico Pezzini. Joseph Feeney traces Hopkins' life-long struggle with the Ignatian worldview which he acquired as a Jesuit. Russell Murphy illustrates Hopkins' position on poetry's ability to convey universal truth by positioning him, thematically, between Arnold and Teilhard. Finally, in the review section of the book, Jude Nixon, Ben Collins, Michael Allsopp, and Desmond Egan give thoughtful assessments of four major works on Hopkins.

The "Gerard Manley Hopkins Annual, 1992" is published in association with the Hopkins Society, which sponsors the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School held in Montasterevin, a few miles outside Dublin, Ireland. This annual is planned as the first to collect the best writings on Hopkins and his poetry written in a single year. The selections are not restricted to the papers delivered at the Summer School, but rather are chosen to capture its spirit and quality of scholarship. In his introduction to the work, Michael Sundermeier describes the contributions to the 1992 Annual. The first selection by the scholar and writer, Hugh Kenner, makes a surprising comparison between Hopkins and Alexander Pope. In "Hopkins and the County Kildare" Norman White aims to create a three-dimensional portrait of the poet in the later years of his life. Giuseppe Serpillo considers the difficulties of translating Hopkins into Italian. Michael Sundermeier's essay is an attempt to put Hopkins' attitude toward nature in historical perspective and to distinguish it from modern perspectives. The nature and quality of friendship, divine and human, expressed in Hopkins' work is the focus of the essay by Domenico Pezzini. Joseph Feeney traces Hopkins' life-long struggle with the Ignatian worldview which he acquired as a Jesuit. Russell Murphy illustrates Hopkins' position on poetry's ability to convey universal truth by positioning him, thematically, between Arnold and Teilhard. Finally, in the review section of the book, Jude Nixon, Ben Collins, Michael Allsopp, and Desmond Egan give thoughtful assessments of four major works on Hopkins.

This collection of essays is written by thinkers who set out to define what is at stake for American Judaism, due to current crises between church and state. Topics include: religious liberty in the military; state aid to sectarian schools; and state and religion in Israel.

In this comprehensive study, Michael Lawler incorporates the insights of philosophy, anthropology, biblical and liturgical studies to fashion a theology of sacraments as "prophetic symbols." Reflection on each of the sacraments he presents the significant biblical data, highlights important historical shifts, and notes contemporary revisions of the sacramental rites and current theological developments. With an excellent command of the sources, and employing insights of contemporary sacramental theology, Michael Lawler develops a theology of the sacraments which seeks to respond to the many pressing pastoral issues of today.

Patients and healthcare providers meet as moral strangers, hence, the conventional wisdom is that clinical interactions are based on mutual respect. Challenging this idea, this book attempts to resore the phenomenon of intersujective, benevolent care.

In Circling the Stones: A Journey (Poems From Ireland), author Michael D. Riley would agree with the notion that all significant journeys are finally the same journey. Pilgrim-Tourist, he takes the reader through a landscape both public and private, secular and spiritual. These poems, varied in form and content¡—with a liberal dose of sly humor—respond deeply to Ireland the modern country grafted on a land almost beyond time. The ¡§touchstone¡¨ of these concerns is the image of ¡§stone¡¨ itself, which weaves many strata of meaning throughout the collection, from the inertness of being itself (the absolute other) to the structureswe build to shield ourselves from it (ring fort, clochan, cottage), remember our dead with (passage grave, cairn), and even to celebrate its beauty and mystery with (stone circle, menhir, church). Newgrange is the most haunting example: tomb, work of art, church of a culture with no voice but incised stone. Yet on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, Newgrange floods with dawn light; for exactly 1000 seconds death is put by for the promise of resurrection. Catholic in sensibility and often in imagery, these poems find grace where we expect it and where we do not. They become powerfully affirmative but do so by the light of a clear eye. It is a trip worth taking.

The authors of this collection are all Christian theologians living and working on the Great Plains, and sharing the life of the intellect and spirit of the Plains. The book reflects on the theologial truths that make up the Christian tradition and discusses how these truths are incarnated in life.

In this volume, David Gardiner investigates the various national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets, from the colonial context of Elizabethan Ireland to Yeats' use of Spenser as an aesthetic and political model to John Montague's reassessment of the reciprocal definations of the poet and the nation throughout reference to Spenser. Gardiner also includes analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets. The afterword on the work of Thomas McCarthy, Sean Dunne, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, among others, discusses how Montague's reinterpretation of Spenser influeneced this most recent generation of Irish poets.

Commissioned in honor of its 125th anniversary, The History of Creighton University is the first official history of Creighton University. This extensively-researched and illustrated chronicle tells the compelling story of an institution which has grown from its humble beginnings as a Jesuit college for Omaha’s Irish immigrant community to the diverse, comprehensive, and distinguished University of the present day.

In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, the essays address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion? Drawing on Biblical studies, theology, spirituality, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and law, the contributors offer a new, more complex, picture and historically nuanced of this symbiotic relationship.