Year: 2023

In Celebration of Ramadan 2023

In celebration of Ramadan this year (Ramadan mubarak!), Notre Dame Press is excited to share some of its most important titles in Islamic studies and Muslim-Christian relations. In line with the University’s Catholic mission, the Press is deeply committed to publishing first-rate scholarship on the relationship between Christianity and Islam, as well as books that […]

Touch the Wounds: A Series of Lenten Meditations, Week 5

Today’s meditation for the fifth week of Lent comes from Tomáš Halík’s Touch the Wounds. This excerpt considers the certainty of faith, and the existence of a God alongside a suffering world. There are apparently many who have lost their faith in God solely because of the existence of evil and suffering in the world. […]

Notre Dame Press Titles Named 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalists

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that on March 9, 2023, six of our titles were selected as Finalists for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.  More than 2,500 entries in over 55 genres were submitted for consideration. The Finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners are […]

Touch the Wounds: A Series of Lenten Meditations, Week 4

Today’s meditation for the fourth week of Lent comes from Tomáš Halík’s Touch the Wounds. This excerpt explores what it means to have a strong faith, and encourages us to encounter Christ in both the traditional sense of the church, and the physical, experiential sense of caring for the wounds of others. Being “a believer” […]

Touch the Wounds: A Series of Lenten Meditations, Week 3

Today’s meditation for the third week of Lent comes from Tomáš Halík’s Touch the Wounds. This excerpt considers our awareness and actions relating to suffering in the world, asking us not to run away from suffering, nor tackle the enormity of healing all by ourselves, but simply asks us to heal the wounds within ourselves, […]

An Interview with John E. Thiel, Author of “Now and Forever”

John E. Thiel is professor of religious studies at Fairfield University. He currently serves as president of the American Theological Society and is the author of six books, including the award-winning Icons of Hope: The “Last Things” in Catholic Imagination (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013). The University of Notre Dame Press is thrilled to publish his […]

A Celebration of Women in History

In honor of Women’s History Month, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to spotlight some of our most important works written by or about influential women. Below you will find a wide collection of artists, academics, activists, and literary leaders, all showcasing the trailblazing spirit of the divine feminine.  Nannie Helen Burroughs: A […]

Touch the Wounds: A Series of Lenten Meditations, Week 2

Today’s meditation for the second week of Lent comes from Tomáš Halík’s Touch the Wounds. This excerpt encourages us to re-examine our understanding of different religious beliefs than our own, and to cultivate respect for different paths of understanding. It is true that for years now I have endeavored, with respect and willingness, to study […]

New Book by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Coming in April from Notre Dame Press

As the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Orthodox Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, has long been a beacon for strengthening interreligious and interfaith dialogues on the world stage. On April 1, 2023, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Peace, Reconciliation, and Care […]

New Paperback Release: “Progressivism” by Bradley C. S. Watson

Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea is at its core, an intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism. Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline […]