The Shape of Catholic Theology: An Introduction to Its Sources, Principles, and HistoryAn exemplary summary of the state of Catholic theology and what appears to be its future. This historical treatment of Catholic theology looks not to the content of that theology but rather to the form in which that content is contained and how it is expressed. Faithful to Catholic teaching yet critical, discerning yet impartial, Nichols offers this introduction to dogmatic theology, with the firm belief that dogmatics are the center of theology, and

In four brief chapters encompassing a century of world history

Symmetry underlies almost every aspect of nature and our experience of the world

The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER

human society

is laid out here in dual column format directly opposing the Arabic text to allow the reader to make careful verse by verse comparisons

Each piece was copied by a different scribe on a separate section of pages

He charts the history of utopianism

and the use of quotations

highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays

this account also offers insight into the poetry of such greats as Rumi and Hafiz

Ethical Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

and following its evolution through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day