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Provides commentary on prominent philosophers on important philosophical themes. “These unusual and exquisite essays focus on a problem or a text with extraordinary acuity”.

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Catholic writers have made a rich contribution to British fiction, despite their minority status. Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Muriel Spark are well-known examples, but there are many others. This is the first book to survey the whole range of this material and examine whether valid generalizations can be made about it.

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Discusses 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.

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Examines the biblical exegesis of early Christians beyond the formal genre of biblical commentary. This volume demonstrates the highly sophisticated nature of biblical exegesis in other genres, and the manifold uses to which this exegesis was put.

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Argues that divine revelation, the inspiration and canonization of Scripture should be viewed as ""sequentially linked movements"" of a single process wherein God reveals his Word in history and ensures permanent accessibility of revelation for his People, both of Israel and of the Church.

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Employs a question and answer format to better accentuate the response of the Church's message to the questions Catholics have about their social role and what the Church intends to teach about it. It is the first short book on Catholic Social Teaching to ground itself thoroughly in the longer and authoritative Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004).

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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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Offers a selection of essays from the pages of Antiphon, the official organ of the Society for Catholic Liturgy. This collection is inspired by the confident affirmation of the Second Vatican Council, taking its cue from an ancient prayer of the Roman Rite, that in Christ, “the fullness of divine worship was given to us”.

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The capital vices are the gateway drugs to countless sins. The path of this book descends through the vices, culminating with their queen ruler, pride. The words of the Fathers will assist the reader in being more realistic about the attacks upon the soul. The text should also be edifying and medicinal.

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Duns Scotus is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despite an academic career that lasted barely two decades, and numerous writings left in various states of incompletion at his death, his thought has been profoundly influential in the history of western philosophy.

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A theological biography of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) that reconstructs the most formative period in his development: the years between his teenage conversion to evangelicalism in 1816 and the beginning of the Tractarian Movement in 1833.

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Offers a contemporary account of the metaphysical basis for the transcendence of the human person. In being directed toward truth, beauty, and goodness, the human person transcends the physical order and reveals himself as a spiritual, as well as a material, being. The metaphysical principle for this transcendence is what we call the soul.

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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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Presents a collection of papers that illustrate the richness of Edmund Husserl's own work and the tradition he began.

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