Books published by Creighton University,U.S.

Tells the compelling story of an institution which has grown from its humble beginnings as a Jesuit college for Omaha's Irish immigrant community to the diverse, comprehensive, and distinguished University of the present day.

Medical and ethical decision concerning treatment for handicapped newborns have always been difficult. Despite technological advances, parents and health-care professionals still search for criteria that will address treatment categories from an ethical standpoint.

Offers an account of one family's thirteen-year struggle with Alzheimer's. This book presents a documented clinical study that reads like a novel, filled with all the feelings, crises, and conflicts experienced by patient and family. It is a story of love, loyalty, perservence, strength, and dignity.

These 14 papers present a varied exploration of the ways in which the Hebrew Biblie has influenced the modern world, and the ways in which the modern world has influenced how we read and interpret Sacred Writ.

Offers a collection of prayers by a victim of incest. Tracing the survivor's journey from trauma to recovery in language powerful and poetic, this book offers a model of prayer for people of faith who have lived through personal tragedy. By turns lyrical, meditative, comic, and irreverent, it leads us along a path to self-acceptance.

The papers in this collection examine the ways in which Jews have been presented in photography, music, film, television, drama, literature and cultural mythology. The papers were delivered at Creighton University in 1995 as part of the eighth Annual Kluznick Symposium in Jewish Civilization.

The papers in this collection commemorate the quincentennial of the Columbian encounter with the New World. They focus on religion in Spain and New Spain during the years immediately surrounding Columbus' first voyage, providing background on events in the age of exploration.

The debate over abortion serves as a clear indication that the Supreme Court decision of 1973 did little to settle the question of abortion's legitimacy. By presenting the balanced, rational argument for the Catholic position on this highly charged subject, this book makes a contribution to public policy discourse in our pluralistic society.

The papers in this collection focus on Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Baha'i and Mormon pilgrims and travellers to the Holy Land from the 7th century to the 1990s.

Redshaw gathers twenty-one original essays on the influential Irish poet and novelist, which provide a critical context for Montague's Collected Poems (1995) and the tales and portraits in Company (2001).

In this volume, David Gardiner investigates the national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets. There is also an analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets.

What do you do when you make a serious medical mistake? Is it enjoyable to play God? What do you say to a patient who wants reassurance when the essence of diagnosis is uncertainty? What about money? What happens when you patient is taking forever, your waiting room's full, and you want to get home? This title deals with these questions.

Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, this title includes essays that address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion?

The authors of this collection are all Christian theologians living and working on the Great Plains, and sharing the life of the intellect and spirit of the Plains. The book reflects on the theologial truths that make up the Christian tradition and discusses how these truths are incarnated in life.

Takes the reader through a landscape both public and private, secular and spiritual.

Patients and healthcare providers meet as moral strangers, hence, the conventional wisdom is that clinical interactions are based on mutual respect. Challenging this idea, this book attempts to resore the phenomenon of intersujective, benevolent care.

This text provides an investigation into how the Human Genome Project (HGP) is likely to affect future generations. It examines the implications these effects hold for evaluating HGP and other research efforts like it.

Lawler develops a theology of the sacraments which seeks to respond to the many pressing pastoral issues of today.

This collection of essays is written by thinkers who set out to define what is at stake for American Judaism, due to current crises between church and state. Topics include: religious liberty in the military; state aid to sectarian schools; and state and religion in Israel.

Reviews and analyses the history and implications of the dualistic paradigm that has characterised Judaism throughout the ages: pluralism and sectarianism, religiosity and secularity, universalism and separatism, reform and uniformity.

This annual plans to be the first to collect the best writings on Hopkins and his poetry written in a single year. The papers are chosen to capture the spirit and quality of scholarship at the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School, held in Montasterevin, near Dublin.

A study of Irish pictures and sculpture that opens up the subject by providing a interdisciplinary approach. It covers diverse topics such as the representation of the Irish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, the erecting of political monuments, Church art, and West of Ireland landscape painting.

Presents an investigation of the ongoing methodical reconstruction of Catholic moral theology.