General Philosophy & Theology

A road less travelled

Tales of the Irish missionaries

Aidan Clerkin and Brendan Clerkin, editors

From the Amazon rainforest to the South Pacific islands, and from India to the African plains, thousands of Irish missionaries devote themselves to the practica…

A troubled see

Memoirs of a Derry bishop

Edward Daly

A troubled see: memoirs of a Derry bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years as…

Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred art and architecture

D. Vincent Twomey SVD & Janet E. Rutherford, editors

In an historic meeting with artists in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI summoned the Church and the world to engage in ‘an authentic “renaissance” of art’. The Second Fo…

Benedict XVI and the sacred liturgy

Neil J. Roy & Janet E. Rutherford, editors

This volume is the published proceedings of the first Fota International Liturgical Conference held in Cork, Ireland, in July 2008 and it aims to provide a gene…

Mary, Mother of the Redeemer

Juan Luís Bastero

Mary's connection with the mystery of Christ has led the Church to explain in an ever more articulate way her role in the redemptive work of her Son and of the …

The Holy Spirit in the fathers of the church

The proceedings of the seventh international patristic conference, Maynooth

D. Vincent Twomey & Janet E. Rutherford, editors

This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh International Maynooth Patristic Conference held in 2008.

Contents:

“Hiding behind the works”: The Holy S…

Salvation according to the fathers of the church

The proceedings of the sixth international patristic conference, Maynooth/Belfast, 2005

D. Vincent Twomey SVD & Dirk Krausmüller, editors

This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Maynooth Patristic Conference which was held in conjunction with the AHRB Centre for Byzantine C…

Understanding the Gospels

Vicente Balaguer editor

The last two hundred years shows the emergence of an enormous growth industry in the field of Biblical analysis, particularly on the evidence presented in the G…

The great persecution

The proceedings of the fifth international patristic conference, Maynooth, 2003

D. Vincent Twomey SVD & Mark Humphries, editors

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Maynooth Patristic Conference held in November 2003.

Contents: Mark Humphries (Swansea U), The …

The Irish contribution to European scholastic thought

James McEvoy & Michael Dunne, editors

This book celebrates 100 years of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast and explores the Scholastic links in philosophy and theology between Irel…

According to your word

Essays honouring Desmond Cardinal Connell

Liam Bergin editor

This book presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Pontifical Irish College to honour Cardinal Desmond Connell on his eightieth birthday. The papers…

Aesthetic perception

A Thomistic perspective

Kevin E. O’Reilly

In his seminal work, Truth and Method, Hans-Goerg Gadamer highlights the misguided supposition of the Enlightenment that such a thing as ‘pure reason’ actually …