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A ""reader's edition"" of 1 Clement, an important early Christian epistolary writing in Greek that probably dates from the late first century CE. On each left-facing page is printed a running, sequential section of the Greek text. On each right-facing page, are recorded all of the more unusual words in that section of Greek text.

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Every discipline, including theology, requires a synthetic overview of its acquisitions and open questions, a kind of ‘topography’ to guide the new student and refresh the gaze of specialists. In his Synthese dogmatique, Jean-Herve Nicolas presents just such a map of Thomistic theology, focusing on the central topics of Dogmatic Theology.

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What did ancient Christians and pagans believe makes the unity of the nations? Just as he began serving as a major adviser at the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) studied this question in lectures delivered at Austria's University of Salzburg. These lectures, originally published in German, are now made available in English in this volume.

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This text proposes a blueprint for organizing moral theology, one that is in harmony with the directions given in ""Veritatis splendor"" and one that likewise respects the requirements of both the ""theological"" and the ""scientific"" character of the discipline.

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The essays contained in this volume illustrate the work of Fr. James A. Weisheipl, whose writing and teaching have resulted in important additions to our understanding of nature and motion.

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The prime purpose of this work is to identify what is most radically distinctive about Christian belief. Addressed to a non-technical audience, the book helps the reader to think himself or herself back into the most basic questions concerning Christian faith.

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Establishes how English historian Christopher Dawson's simple definition of culture as a ‘common way of life’ reconciles intellectualist and behavioural approaches to culture. In addition, Dawson's cultural mind provides a synthesis helpful for recognising the importance of Christian culture in education.

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Presents the first English translation of one of the most important twelfth-century narratives. The text describes the difficult task King Louis VI of France faced in bringing order and justice to his violent and militaristic principality and kingdom.

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Basil of Caesarea was a father of eastern coenobitic monasticism; an author of orthodox Trinitarian theology and eloquent defender of the Spirit; a model of social virtue and concern for the poor; and an erudite preacher and able bishop. This book explores Basil's Trinitarian thought as the meeting place of the worlds within which he lived.

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Describes the development of predominant Greek and Latin Christian conceptions of temptation and of the work of Christ to heal and restore humankind in the context of that temptation, focusing on Maximus the Confessor and Thomas Aquinas as well-developed examples of Greek and Latin thought on these matters.

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Witnesses to the fragility of humanity, which is capable of freedom or slavery, brotherhood or hatred. Each chapter offers a ray of hope, suggesting how we might acknowledge and respond to this difficult history.

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Fresh translations of Meister Eckhart's sermons are made available in this volume: three for the first time in English and sixteen others for the first time since C. de B. Evans translated them in 1924 and 1931, long before critical editions of the manuscripts were published in 2003. Other important sermons are also included in the translations.

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Every discipline, including theology, requires a synthetic overview of its acquisitions and open questions, a kind of ""topography"" to guide the new student and refresh the gaze of specialists. In his Synthese dogmatique, Fr. Jean-Herve Nicolas, OP (1910-2001) presents just such a map of Thomistic theology.

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With this publication, English readers now have available to them the complete homilies of Origen of Alexandria on the book of Joshua. These homilies were among the last Origen gave before his torture and death during the Decian persecution, around 254.

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Provides an analysis of the attempts by John Henry Newman to account for the historical reality of doctrinal change within Christianity in the light of his lasting conviction that the idea of Christianity is fixed by reference to the dogmatic content of the deposit of faith.

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Focuses on St Thomas Aquinas’s theology of beatitude and the journey thereto. Consequently, the work’s topic is the meaning and purpose of human life embedded in that of the whole cosmos. This study is an exercise of ressourcement in the philosophical and theological wisdom of one of the most profound theologians of the Catholic Church.

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As many are reconsidering the relationship between markets and government, this timely book demonstrates the perennial relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition to public affairs. Academics, public servants, policy experts, and concerned citizens can all benefit from this timely study of common-good capitalism's prospects.

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Certain features of Didymus's Genesis commentary, unfortunately not preserved in its entirety, seem to indicate that it may have been his earliest work. This previously untranslated text is crucial for studies of the fourth century and of the monumental influence of Origen.

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Offers readers a people's history of deafness and sign language in the Catholic Church. Paying attention to the vocation stories of deaf priests and pastoral workers, Portolano traces the transformation of the Deaf Catholic community from passive recipients of mercy to an active language minority in today's globally diverse church.

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Restores the connection between spirituality and justice, religion and law, theology and jurisprudence, and natural law and positive law by building a new bridge suitable for pluralistic societies in the secular age.

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Examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St Bonaventure through Ockham). This is the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period.

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Offers an unprecedented account of Shakespeare draws upon his civilization's unique culture and illuminates its basic features. Rather than a treatment of all the works, R.V. Young focuses on how some of Shakespeare's best and most well-known plays dramatize the West's conception of social institutions and historical developments.

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Focuses on a Greek text that was likely compiled in Constantinople, in 1105, for use in one of the monasteries located there. The book consists of a liturgical psalter, containing the fixed structure (the ordinary) in both the Greek original and in English translation, as well as a description of the hours themselves.

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Pope Benedict XVI praised Origen for his ‘primordial role’ in the history of lectio divina, the prayerful reading of Scripture. He explained that Origen approaches Scripture reading not as ‘mere study’ but as the pathway to knowing Christ and “falling in love with him.” Origen's nine extant homilies on Judges exemplify this approach.

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Proposes comprehensive interpretations of some difficult passages in Aristotle's two major ethical works (Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics). This book brings to bear upon the analysis of human behaviour passages in Aristotle's logical works. It also draws connections to action theory, the analysis of practical reason, and virtue ethics.

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Examines the reasons behind the Church's failure to recreate the Catholic Spain of a vanished golden age and the consequences of that failure, particularly during the Second Republic, the Civil War of the 1930s and the regime of Francisco Franco.

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In rewriting the philosophy of grammar, Braine restores the dynamic conception of language, reuniting structure and communicative function. Grammar, typically through the verb, gives the sentence its ‘saying’ function, the verb being what brings the sentence to life, giving the sentence’s other elements their role and force.

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St. Jerome (347-420) has been considered the pre-eminent scriptural commentator among the Latin Church Fathers. His Commentary on Matthew, written in 398 and profoundly influential in the West, appears here for the first time in English translation. Jerome covers the entire text of Matthew's gospel by means of brief explanatory comments that clarify the text literally and historically.

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Never until now has Cajetan's Commentary been put into English in its entirety. William Marshner's translation is consistent with fidelity to the technical force of the original. The translator's footnotes acknowledge what empirical science has made obsolete in the work of St. Thomas.

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Originally published nearly two decades ago and long out of print, this first English translation of Aquinas's Commentary on the Gospel of John by Fabian Larcher and James Weisheipl is once again available to scholars and students. Published in three volu

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This volume discusses the earliest papal decretals, covering the period from the end of the 4th century to the end of the 9th century. It begins with the first papal letters and describes their transmission and reception into the canonical tradition up to Gratian's ""Decretum"" (1140).

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An annotated translation of Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum, presenting both the Latin text side-by-side with a new English translation, which attempts to avoid the use of Latin cognates while remaining critically faithful to Bonaventure's text.

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