Reflections on Early Desert Spirituality for Today
The Monastic in Each of Us offers eight chapters on early-monastic themes relevant for spiritual seekers today. In August 2024, at the invitation of Abbot James Wiseman, the author gave seven retreat talks for the brothers at St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., on early-monastic spirituality and its relevance for us today. The revised talks ......
The author, Emmanuel Pataq Siman, OP, was born on Christmas Day in the Syriac Christian town of Qaraqosh, Iraq. In this book he shares memories of his childhood, of growing up Christian in a Muslim (though secular) Arab society, and of his decision to enter the Dominican order. He shares with the reader the culture shock that attended that ......
Themes in Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, and Eliot
This collection of essays considers a variety of themes in philosophy, theology, and poetry, three ways of thinking that share a certain openness and comprehensiveness. The essays show how philosophy, theology, and poetry are ways of thinking in the medium of words-in large part in the medium of written words-against the background of all things ......
Maximus the Confessor (d. 662), regarded by certain of his contemporaries as a sword of division, has become a bridge between East and West in our time. He lived at a time of theological and political upheaval, coming under intense scrutiny from imperial authorities in the final decades of his life. His conflict with Constantinople led him to ......
This book will fill a gap in the current resources available to students of the Confessions in Latin. The scope, method, and intended readership will align not only in college Latin classrooms, but also by high school students who have completed their study of elementary Latin grammar; or by any non-specialist who would benefit from generous ......
The revitalization of the Church requires a vocational renewal capable of stimulating participation, communion and mission in Christian communities. However, in order to conceive of such a renewal, we must take stock of the current anthropological challenge, which requires an adequate response in tune with our changing times and the current ......
Fostering the Moral Virtues of the Intellectual Life
What exactly is a "good student," and how do educators foster this individual? As Douglas LeBlanc argues, the good student is the individual who-more than being intelligent-is morally virtuous in the realm of study. The classical and Christian traditions divide the moral virtues under the cardinal virtues of temperance, fortitude, justice, and ......
Vatican Diplomacy and Interfaith Relations During the Interwar Period, 1918-1939
This book delves into the history of how the Catholic Church's leadership, both in the Vatican and in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, responded to the emerging conflict between Zionism and Palestinian nationalism for the future of the Holy Land. Beginning with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the conquest of Jerusalem by the Allied forces, ......
Aquinas and the Platonist Tradition studies a variety of central topics to illustrate the pervasive influence of Platonism and Neoplatonism in the philosophy of St Thomas. The overall thesis is that Aquinas combined the transcendent impulse of Platonism with the natural sensibility of Aristotle; his deepest metaphysical intuitions are unmistakably ......
