Veritas
“. . . the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)
In much contemporary discourse, Pilate’s question has been taken to mark the absolute boundary of human thought. Beyond this boundary, it is often suggested, is an intellectual hinterland into which we must not venture. This terrain is an agnosticism of thought: because truth cannot be possessed, it must not be spoken. Thus, it is argued that the defenders of “truth” in our day are often traffickers in ideology, merchants of counterfeits, or anti-liberal. They are, because it is somewhat taken for granted that Nietzsche’s word is final: truth is the domain of tyranny.
Is this indeed the case, or might another vision of truth offer itself? The ancient Greeks named the love of wisdom as philia, or friendship. The one who would become wise, they argued, would be a “friend of truth.” For both philosophy and theology might be conceived as schools in the friendship of truth, as a kind of relation. For like friendship, truth is as much discovered as it is made. If truth is then so elusive, if its domain is terra incognita, perhaps this is because it arrives to us—unannounced—as gift, as a person, and not some thing.
The aim of the Veritas book series is to publish incisive and original current scholarly work that inhabits “the between” and “the beyond” of theology and philosophy. These volumes will all share a common aspiration to transcend the institutional divorce in which these two disciplines often find themselves, and to engage questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians in such a way as to reinvigorate both disciples with a kind of interdisciplinary desire, often so absent in contemporary academe. In a word, these volumes represent collective efforts in the befriending of truth, doing so beyond the simulacra of pretend tolerance, the violent, yet insipid reasoning of liberalism that asks with Pilate, “What is truth?”—expecting a consensus of non-commitment; one that encourages the commodification of the mind, now sedated by the civil service of career, ministered by the frightened patrons of position.
The series will therefore consist of two “wings”: (1) original monographs; and (2) essay collections on a range of topics in theology and philosophy. The latter will principally by the products of the annual conferences of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (www.theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk).
Series Editors: Conor Cunningham, Eric Austin Lee
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Will & Love
Shakespeare and the Motion of the Soul
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ISBN: 9781666738360
Pub Date: March 2023
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Imprint: Cascade Books
Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare's love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the...
Ethics Lost in Modernity
Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics
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ISBN: 9781666747188
Pub Date: June 2023
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Imprint: Cascade Books
Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success--yet great danger--of bioethics. Matthew...
Astonishment and Science
Engagements with William Desmond
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ISBN: 9781666733402
Pub Date: December 2022
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Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity, perplexity, and astonishment. In this volume, philosopher William Desmond explores the relation of the different modes of wonder to modern science. Responding to his thought are twelve thinkers across the domains of science, theology, philosophy, law, poetry, medicine, sociology, and art restoration.
By Way of Obstacles
A Pathway through a Work
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ISBN: 9781666734140
Pub Date: December 2022
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In By Way of Obstacles, Emmanuel Falque revisits the major themes of his work--finitude, the body, and the call for philosophers and theologians to "cross the Rubicon" by entering into dialogue--in...
The Eschatological Person
Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue
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ISBN: 9781666733716
Pub Date: July 2022
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Both Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger insist that the human person remains shrouded in mystery without God's self-disclosure in the person of Jesus Christ. Like us, Jesus lived in a particular...
As It Is in Heaven
Some Christian Questions on the Nature of Paradise
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ISBN: 9781725295629
Pub Date: April 2022
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The loss of a real and heartfelt belief in God--and by "real" I mean an experience that is both steady and moving, ethereal though down-to-earth, sentimental but never trite--comes from an earlier more...
The End of the Law?
Law, Theology, and Neuroscience
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ISBN: 9781498223898
Pub Date: August 2021
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Does neuroscience show that all our ideas about law and ethics are false? David Opderbeck answers this question with a broad and deep survey of the relationship between theology, science, and ethics....
The Foundations of Nature
Metaphysics of Gift for an Integral Ecological Ethic
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ISBN: 9781725264977
Pub Date: December 2020
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Imprint: Cascade Books
Will the ecological crises of our time be resolved using the same form of thought that has brought them about? Are technological prowess and political power the proper tools to address them? Is there...
Subordinated Ethics
Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky
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ISBN: 9781532686399
Pub Date: August 2020
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With Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Aquinas' Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way,...
Hide and Seek
The Sacred Art of Indirect Communication
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ISBN: 9781532670589
Pub Date: July 2020
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As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked...

Will & Love
Shakespeare and the Motion of the Soul
$37.00
£31.00
AU$56.00
ISBN: 9781666738360
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Ethics Lost in Modernity
Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics
$34.00
£28.00
AU$49.00
ISBN: 9781666747188
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Astonishment and Science
Engagements with William Desmond
$33.00
£27.00
AU$47.00
ISBN: 9781666733402
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
By Way of Obstacles
A Pathway through a Work
$27.00
£22.00
AU$40.00
ISBN: 9781666734140
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Eschatological Person
Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue
$31.00
£27.00
AU$49.00
ISBN: 9781666733716
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
As It Is in Heaven
Some Christian Questions on the Nature of Paradise
$38.00
£34.00
AU$60.00
ISBN: 9781725295629
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The End of the Law?
Law, Theology, and Neuroscience
$33.00
£29.00
AU$52.00
ISBN: 9781498223898
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Foundations of Nature
Metaphysics of Gift for an Integral Ecological Ethic
$36.00
£32.00
AU$57.00
ISBN: 9781725264977
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Subordinated Ethics
Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky
$48.00
£42.00
AU$65.00
ISBN: 9781532686399
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Hide and Seek
The Sacred Art of Indirect Communication
$38.00
£34.00
AU$51.00
ISBN: 9781532670589
Pub Date: July 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books