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, focusing on the central topics of ......
This volume addresses the subject of categories: What are they? How are they used in speaking and thinking? What role do they play in our moral deliberations? Why are there different sorts of categories? And are categories independent of our thinking and speaking, giving objective form to the world we aim to think and speak about? These and other ......
This volume addresses the subject of categories: What are they? How are they used in speaking and thinking? What role do they play in our moral deliberations? Why are there different sorts of categories? And are categories independent of our thinking and speaking, giving objective form to the world we aim to think and speak about? These and other ......
Vatican II, John Paul II, and the Unity of Revelation and Experience
Popes Francis, Benedict XVI, and John Paul II have called the present a time of New Evangelization for the Church and have stressed the importance of catechesis for this mission. John Paul II claimed that this renewal of the Church's mission is grounded in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. Nevertheless, approaches to catechesis in the ......
Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and Guides
In publication since 1960 and now in its ninth volume, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, and how an ancient author was known and appreciated in monastic, university, and humanist circles. Each article presents a historical survey of the influence and circulation of a particular author down to ......
Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries
An electronic version is available from ACLS Humanities E-Book. This volume contains articles on Dioscorides, by John M. Riddle; Paulus Aegineta, by Eugene F. Rice, Jr.; Ausonius, by Howard L. Felber; Cato Censor, by Virginia Brown; Martianus Capella, by Frank-Rutger Hausmann; C. Plinius Secundus, by Charles G. Nauert, Jr.; Carmina Priapaea, by ......
Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries
This international scholarly enterprise illustrates the impact of the literary heritage of ancient Greece and Rome on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Five authors are treated in separate articles in this volume: Catullus, Cleomedes, Irenaeus, Plotinus, and Xenophon. In each article, a historical survey indicates the influence and circulation of ......
Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries
An electronic version is available from ACLS Humanities E-Book. This volume contains articles on Ps.-Cebes, by Cora Lutz; Horapollo, by Sandra Sider; Nemesius Emesenus, by Helen Brown Wicher; Solinus, by Mary Ella Milham; Tacitus, by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.; Vegetius, by Josette A. Wisman; and addenda et corrigenda to the articles on Martianus ......
Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries
An electronic version is available from ACLS Humanities E-Book. This volume contains articles on Arrianus, by Philip A. Stadter; Dionysius Periegetes, by George B. Parks and F. Edward Cranz; Musici Scriptores Graeci, by F. Alberto Gallo; Priscianus Lydus, by Charles B. Schmitt; Thessalus astrologus, by David Pingree; Caesar, by Virginia Brown; ......
