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 ......
Catholic Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis Splendor
On August 6, 1993, Pope John Paul II promulgated the long-awaited encyclical on moral theology entitled Veritatis splendor. In this landmark encyclical, directed principally toward bishops, Pope John Paul II sought a reset of the discipline of Catholic moral theology after the Second Vatican Council in response to the theological dissent that had ......
Building on his acclaimed The Third Spring, Adam Schwartz presents a pioneering analysis of the social commentary of G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones. These four converts were exemplars of the Catholic literary revival as a "counter-politics" that provided a radical, supernaturalist alternative to predominant ......
The predominant understanding of St. Thomas's account of the natural law to date has been that it is basically philosophical in character. In Thomas Aquinas's Cruciform Theology of the Natural Law, Kevin E. O'Reilly, OP, argues that Thomas's construal of the natural law is, on the contrary, thoroughly theological in its inspiration. In order to ......
This newest volume in the CUA Press Verbum Domini series by the late Professor Romano Penna, represents a synthesis of Penna's thought, which often engaged with the question of Christian originality. The relationship between Law and liberty is a theme that effectively runs like a red thread through the "grand narrative" of the Bible. Law and ......
This supplemental guide to Ecclesiastical Latin: a Primer on the Language of the Church includes provides important aids to both the instructor and those using the book for self-study. Within the book, the reader will find some thoughts on the nature of translation and how best to approach translating the Latin sentences found in the main book. ......
Although Newman certainly did not write the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine with the intention to do systematic theology, his ten principles serve as a framework for ordering the content of the essay with reference to Newman's other works. The result in this present book is a systematic analysis of the theological themes considered ......
William of Saint-Thierry, Isaac of Stella, and Baldwin of Forde created a distinctly Cistercian body of Eucharistic theology in the twelfth century. In this book, Nathaniel Peters offers a scholarly account of that theology and examines the connection between medieval Trinitarian and Eucharistic theology. These Cistercian authors thought that ......
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 ......
