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The Sacred Writings of the Apocrypha of the New Testament
The Sacred Writings of the Apocrypha of the New Testament – Matthew Brown Riddle While the early Church exercised proper discernment, and the Canon of the New Testament was soon definitely recognised and universally accepted, the apocryphal writings were not without influence. The sacred legends, the ecclesiastical traditions, all too potent in their effect, are […]
Summa Theologica Part I-II („Pars Prima Secundae“)
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 […]
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher, as well as founder of the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. He is also one of the […]
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth
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 […]
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second
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 […]
The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God
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 […]
Corpus Hermeticum
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 […]
The Soliloquies
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 […]
The Letters of St. Augustine
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 […]
Aquinas Ethicus: The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas Vol. 2
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 […]