This unique volume offers fifteen original essays by leading scholars that explore the question of whether, and to what extent, Aquinas may (or may not) be considered a "common doctor" in theological and philosophical engagements today. With that unifying theme, the book begins with a foreword by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, and an ......
In the first half of the 20th century, the reputation of American Catholics was not so good. Didn't the novelist Flannery O'Connor write that their main concern was to "install central heating in holy places"? This book reveals a little-known page in the intellectual history of American Catholicism, and shows another face of transatlantic ......
This volume provides the first full length English translation of the commentary on the Book of Job by Didymus the Blind. One of the earliest line-by-line commentaries on Job to survive from late antiquity, it covers the entirety of the first sixteen chapters of the LXX text of Job with a few unfortunate lacunae. It represents the third commentary ......
Christopher Dawson, the renowned historian of culture, offered an overarching narrative in two volumes of the rise and fall of Christian unity within Western Civilization in lectures he delivered at Harvard University between 1958 and 1962. Volume 1, The Formation of Christendom, laid out Dawson's anthropological approach to culture in general and ......
A very large number of people have asked: can Christians practice yoga? To put it more precisely: may Christians practice yoga without betraying, undermining, or diluting their faith? Might yoga strengthen Christian belief and practice-or at least be as neutral as baseball or soccer are toward it? Although these questions could be motivated by ......
Cornelius Jansen's masterful Augustinus (1641) has recently been the center of renewed interest in the theological academic community. After the translation and publication of the chapter Jansen devoted in his work to the topic of predestination of human beings and angels, this is the first ever translation in the English language of the last ......
These eleven essays, written by leading experts in the field, focus on norms of canon law, including norms of Romano-canonical procedure in the ius commune, as well as exchanges or cross-influences between different systems of law (e.g., between canon and Roman law, between canon and English common law, or between medieval canon law and early ......
Reading Greek with Jonah gives beginners the opportunity to engage directly with a work of ancient literature in their first year of Greek. It takes as its subject and parameters the Septuagint translation of the book of Jonah, using a core vocabulary of fewer than three hundred words and introducing grammar and syntax through readings quoted or ......
A Black Catholic Family's Experience of Slavery and Freedom
This groundbreaking work uncovers the extraordinary story of Martha Tolton, a woman whose courage and faith shaped the life of her son, Father Augustus Tolton-the first recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States. Through meticulous archival research, this book reconstructs the Tolton family's journey from enslavement in Kentucky and ......
