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Summa Theologica Part I-II (“Pars Prima Secundae”) – St. Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas, and although unfinished, “one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature.” The work is intended as a manual for beginners in theology and also a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West.

This is part 1-2, ‘Pars Prima Secundae’.

Summa Theologica Part I-II (“Pars Prima Secundae”)

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Summa Theologica Part I-II (“Pars Prima Secundae”).

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth – John Calvin

The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty. The whole text consists of four books, this volume including the third and fourth.

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth.

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second – John Calvin

The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty. The whole text consists of four books, this volume including the first and second

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second.

ISBN: 9783849691509

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The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God – John Neville Figgis

When one civilization has fallen and another is in its birth throes, people are apt to be seduced by the rushlights of a false leadership. The mind and mood of such a time of transition are intensely puzzling and those who would meet its needs must have insight and vision. The Epistle to the Hebrews was written after the fall of Jerusalem in the interest of a larger faith and in defense of the substantial authority of Christianity. When Rome was sacked by Alaric in 410 A. D., the shock of the catastrophe reacted against Christianity. Augustine wrote the De Civitate Dei to prove that the disaster … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Corpus Hermeticum – G.R.S. Mead

The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars.

Corpus Hermeticum

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Corpus Hermeticum.

ISBN: 9783849691714

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Biography of G.R.S. Mead (from wikipedia)

Mead was born in Peckham, Surrey, England to British Army Colonel Robert Mead and his wife Mary (née Stow), who had received a traditional education at Rochester Cathedral School.

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The Soliloquies – St. Augustine of Hippo

The Soliloquies were written by St. Augustine in the 4th-century. The two books contain an “inner dialogue” with questions, answers and thorough discussions, that finally aim to gain self-knowledge. While in the first book the dialogue longs to know a soul, it becomes evident in the second book that it is the author himself who wants to get to know his own.

The Soliloquies

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The Soliloquies.

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Biography of St. Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Letters of St. Augustine – St. Augustine of Hippo

The importance of the letters of eminent men, as illustrations of their life, character, and times, is too well understood to need remark. This is especially true of the Letters of Augustin. A large number of them are ecclesiastical and theological, and would in our day have appeared as pamphlets, or would have been delivered as lectures. There are none of his writings which do not receive some supplementary light from his letters. The subjects of his more elaborate writings are here handled in an easier manner, and their sources, motives, and origin are disclosed.

The Letters of St. Augustine

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The Letters of St. Augustine.

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Aquinas Ethicus: The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas Vol. 2 – St. Thomas Acquinas

St. Thomas is not only the king of theologians, but the prince of moralists, and it has seemed a pity that his own words on matters of daily practice should have been so long inaccessible to the English reader. Technical Latin is not attractive to those who are unversed in it, and the student of ethics might be easily bewildered by the large admixture of speculative theology in the Summa.
In this translation the separation of ethics from theology has been carried out in the main, and the English has been made as simple as the subject-matter permits. This is volume two out of two and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...