Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The book is an interview with two specialists. Apresents very interesting ideas, but some of them are incorrect, specially about the nature of the sacrifice of Christ.
However, the author, Girard,...
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The Waste Land
A poem in five parts - "The burial of the dead", "A game of chess", "The fire sermon", "Death by water" and "What the thunder said". It is a statement of post-war depression and negativity, a protest...
The Drowning
Bryan Brown's storytelling voice continues in this novel.
Foul language is repeated frequently. It is set in the beach culture.
Creative Fidelity
The title of the book defines its purpose clearly. But the title itself raises a number of questions. In Chapter One, the author asks "What are the documents of the magisterium, and what is their doctrinal...
The rise and progress of the universities
A collection of articles by St. John Henry Newman, published in magazines and newspapers, about the university education in a difficult time.
Newman was appointed the first rector of the new...
Benedict XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed
Both in this essay and in her previous work ("The Faith of Ratzinger") the author, Tracey Rowland, shows, in this interesting study, a deep knowledge of the theological panorama at the end of the 20th...
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
The book succeeds in the following task: making it impossible to deny that there is (at least) plausible case for high Christology among fervently monotheistic Jews in the earliest stages of Christianity. I...
Killer Kramer. Dame Leonie: a woman for all seasons
Killer Kramer, Dame Leonie: a woman for all seasons is a brief (108 pages) biographical sketch of Leonie Kramer, the first female professor of English in Australia, the first woman to chair the ...
Mother Teresa: The Saint and Her Nation
“By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.” This modest...
To the Finland Station. A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Edmund Wilson published the history of revolutionary Marxism in 1940, just at the beginning of World War II, when the only reference of the new social experiment was the Soviet Union. Later, in 1971, he...