Examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, offering a tentative proposal for its recovery.

Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly tell the stories of God.

Arthur F. Marotti analyzes some of the means by which the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority defined themselves and their religious and political antagonists in early modern England. In the period between the arrival of the first Jesuit missionaries in England in 1580 and the climax of ongoing religious conflict in the Restoration-era.

These essays explore the ways in which competing social or collective memories of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" continue to shape the post-conflict political landscape, in light of history, Irish and British history, and international studies.

Explores various modes of displaying the mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with different accounts of sin and its consequences.