Aquinas's commentaries on St. Paul are well known and have received significant attention in the past few years. It is widely known, too, that Aquinas quotes Paul often in the Summa theologiae. This aspect of the Summa, however, has not been studied in detail. This book seeks to fill that lacuna in scholarship. The book's brief introduction treats ......
The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas
Jan-Heiner Tueck presents a work that explores the sacramental theology, lived spirituality, and Eucharistic poetry of the Church's doctor communis, St. Thomas Aquinas. Although Aquinas' Eucharistic poetry has long occupied an important place in the Church's liturgical prayer and her repertoire of sacred music, the depth of these poems remains ......
Revelation, Scripture, and the Laity in the Development of a Marian Dogma
The Assumption of Mary refers to the ancient Christian belief that the Mother of God was taken up into Heaven, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life. For centuries, Catholics and other Christians celebrated the Assumption as a liturgical feast and meditated on the miraculous event in the Rosary. Nevertheless, its relationship to Revelation ......
Volume 1: Lent, Easter, and Solemnities of the Lord
The book is a collection of several publicly available homilies of Benedict XVI on the main liturgical solemnities and feasts. The purpose is to make these homilies available to the wider public. The book will be a service to the tradition of the Church as it compiles in a single volume a good number of homilies that would otherwise be left ......
The True Locations of the Jesuit Martyrs and of the Birth and Upbringing of St. Catherine Tekakwitha
Since the nineteenth century, Catholics have believed that the Jesuit martyrs of the Mohawk Valley were put to death at a Mohawk village where the great shrine to them now stands at Auriesville, New York. Catholics have also believed that St. Catherine (Kateri) Tekekwitha was born and partly raised in the same village. This book argues that these ......
Lord Acton said that of all the works written against Martin Luther in the beginning of the Reformation, Bishop John Fisher of Rochester's Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio of 1523 was the most important. Oddly enough this massive work of Catholic apologetics, composed in Latin, has never been rendered into the English language. It contains ......
A study of the Christian philosophy of Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), an influential, creative, and prolific writer. He was widely recognized as one of the most prominent Catholic intellectuals during his own lifetime and was widely seen as a spokesman for the Thomistic revival. This study aims to present Maritain's thought as a dynamic and ......
Essays in Analytic Thomistic Philosophy and Theology
The Fittingness of the Incarnation collects David Braine's best unpublished philosophical and theological essays. The essays contained herein are representative of Braine's careful, rich and distinctive work. As one of the more interesting philosophers of his generation, David Braine offered a realist account of the world - God's existence, the ......
Essays in Analytic Thomistic Philosophy and Theology
The Fittingness of the Incarnationcollects David Braine's best unpublished philosophical and theological essays. The essays contained herein are representative of Braine's careful, rich and distinctive work. As one of the more interesting philosophers of his generation, David Braine offered a realist account of the world - God's existence, the ......
