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Growing into God

The Fathers of the Church on Christian Maturity

John

Gavin, SJ

Foreword by Angela Franks

PATRISTIC THEOLOGY

How to achieve spiritual maturation, according to early Christian masters

Many studies of spiritual development exist under the heading of “Christian Perfection.” However, John Gavin revisits such topics as asceticism, prayer, sacraments, virtues, and spiritual combat through scriptural and patristic texts that present the Christian life as one of growth from spiritual infancy to a particular fulfillment or end (telos): divinized humanity as formed and revealed in Jesus Christ. Thus, though Christian maturity does incorporate such things as physical and cognitive development, its true distinction lies in its gifted, supernatural end that does not exclude human freedom.

Part One establishes the pillars of Christian maturity – form and finality; virtue and character; vocation and mission – and explores the opposition to maturation in the form of demonic infantilism. Part Two examines the means of maturity given to us in the life of the Church: the Scriptures, the Mysteries (Sacraments), and asceticism. Finally, Part Three reviews four figures of Christian adulthood: the Witness, the Teacher, the Servant, and the Fool. A concluding chapter applies the insights from the previous chapters to our modern world to see in what ways our times need to “grow up.”

Growing into God includes a variety of early Christian voices: Irenaeus of Lyons, Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose of Milan, John Cassian, Dionysius the Areopagite, Mark the Monk, John Moschos, Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the Holy Fool, and others. Their collective insights, all the fruits of great learning and the contemplation of God’s Word, describe a wondrous figure: the mature saint transformed by union with the Father, Son, and Spirit.

John Gavin, SJ, is associate professor of religious studies, College of the Holy Cross and the author of Mysteries of the Lord's Prayer: Wisdom from the Early Church (CUA Press). Angela Franks is professor of theology at St. John’s Seminary, Boston.

"Substituting 'maturity' for the Christian call for 'perfection' is a stroke of genius, as it faithfully communicates the original meaning, but transposes it to a particular need. The book offers a highly significant patristic retrieval needed for the Church today. Gavin's scholarship is extraordinarily deep and broad in patristic theology, with citations of some of the best critical editions and secondary literature."— Andrew Hofer, OP, author of The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (CUA Press). 6 x

Thomas Joseph White, OP, is Rector, Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Angelicum, and the author of Contemplation and the Cross: A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life; The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God; The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism and The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study of Christology (all CUA Press).

Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 4

On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace

Thomas Joseph White, OP

THOMISTIC RESSOURCEMENT SERIES

What is Catholic theology in its essence, and how does the Thomistic tradition contribute to its task?

In the Nicene Creed Christians profess belief in the Church, “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.” The Church is also called the mystical body of Christ and the bride of Christ. What is the Church and how can we understand her mystery in light of the mystery of Christ? Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 4 explores Catholic ecclesiology and the theology of the Virgin Mary, as an exemplar of the Church’s life. It also considers the people of Israel in light of the Church and Christ. The second half of the book considers human nature in light of the grace of Christ, and ecclesial humanity, so as to consider thematic and universal relations of grace to human nature. Major controversies are addressed such as the natural desire to see God and the Thomistic understanding of election and predestination. Effectively this volume seeks to receive and interpret the teaching of the Second Vatican Council Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, within the Thomistic theological tradition and in light of that tradition.

Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 4 is a continuation of Fr. Thomas Joseph White’s collection of essays, extending over a range of fundamental topics in Catholic dogmatic theology.

ALSO BY THOMAS JOSEPH WHITE, OP

Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis

Book 4: On Creation and the Creator

Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP

Translated by Matthew K. Minerd

THOMISTIC RESSOURCEMENT SERIES

A Thomist master presents a unified introduction to Dogmatic theology in this multi-volume work

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 Synthèse dogmatique, Fr. Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP (1910-2001) presents just such a map of Thomistic theology, focusing on the central topics of Dogmatic Theology: The One and Triune God, Christology, Mariology, Ecclesiology, the Sacraments, and the Last Things. Drawing on decades of research and teaching, Fr. Nicolas synthetically presents these topics from a faithfully Thomistic perspective. While broadly and genially engaging the theological literature of the 20th century, he nonetheless remains deeply indebted to the Thomistic school that would have formed him in his youth as a theologian. This provides the reader with an unparalleled theological vision, masterfully bringing forth, at once, what is new and what is classical.

Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis is being published in English as a multi-volume work. In this volume, originally written as a supplement to his large Synthèse dogmatique, Fr. Nicolas returns to the theological topics of the One God and Creation. In a tightly unified presentation, he discusses: what we can naturally and supernaturally know about the One God; the nature of creation and providence; the nature of bodily creatures and their evolution; the nature and activity of spiritual creatures, men and angels alike; the problem of evil; and the relationship between the natural and the supernatural. By returning to these themes classically treated in the context of the Prima pars of the Summa theologiae, Fr. Nicolas presents his readers with the completion of his dogmatic synthesis.

Serving as a professor for decades, including at the University of Fribourg, Fr. Nicolas was at once a profound scholar and a masterful pedagogue. Gathering the work of a lifetime into a single pedagogical narrative, Fr. Nicolas’s Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis provides a resource for students and scholars alike. In view of the hyper-specialization of theology today, this series of volumes provides readers with a synthetic and sapiential overview of the fundamentals of dogmatic theology from a robust and profound Thomistic perspective.

Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP (1910-2001) was professor of dogmatics at the University of Fribourg. Matthew K. Minerd is professor of philosophy and moral theology at Byzantine Catholic Seminary.

“This modern classic of Catholic systematic theology is to be warmly welcomed in the English-speaking world. At a time of considerable intellectual, theological, and spiritual disorientation and deracination, this deep but accessible synthesis of Catholic theology is a timely exercise in theological sanity and clarity and as such a resource for the sound integration of a profound theology with a deep spirituality. If the new evangelization is to have a proper theological grounding and a contemplative core that roots it in the identity and saving action of the Triune God, then this volume is indispensable --required reading for bishops, priests, seminarians, and theologically interested laity.” - Reinhard Hütter, author of Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics (CUA Press).

5 ½ x 8 ½ 522 pages $34.95 June Paperback 978-0-8132-3952-1 Ebook 978-0-8132-3953-8

Reginaldus Thomas Foster (1939-2020) was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He worked in the “Latin Letters” section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican and was the Papal Latinist from 1969-2009. Daniel Patricius McCarthy, a student of Foster’s, is a monk at St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, and teaches Latin in London and Rome.

Os Praesens Ciceronis Epistularis

The Immediate Mouth of Cicero in His Letters

Reginald Foster and Daniel McCarthy

An audio and printed book of Cicero’s letters

The Immediate Mouth of Cicero in His Letters consists of two books. An audio book presents the integral Latin and English texts of 51 letters Cicero wrote to family and close associates all recited by Reginald Foster. A printed book presents the teaching method of Reginald exemplified by 160 imagined dialogues between a teacher and students working with original thoughts of Cicero to learn the Latin language from the first encounter.

This companion volume to The Bones’ Meats Abundant analyses how Cicero expressed himself in the Latin of these same 51 letters, with cross references to fuller explanations in The Mere Bones of Latin.

Audio book

LISTEN to Cicero writing to family and close associates recited by Reginald Foster who embodies that living voice of the master Latinist. READ along while listening and RECITE together with the audio. CONSULT the English text of our translations.

Printed book

LEARN from the first encounter with the Latin language by reading from Cicero’s letters and COMPLETE your understanding through regular readings.

Teach the Latin language using excerpts from Cicero’s letters from the first day. Understand how Reginald taught the Latin language using solid, unmodified, original Latin texts. Learn to teach from Reginald.

ALSO BY REGINALD FOSTER AND DANIEL MCCARTHY

Into God, student edition

Itinerarium Mentis in Deum of Saint Bonaventure

Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM. Cap.

Introduction by Joshua C. Benson

A student edition of this brilliant translation of Bonaventure’s masterpiece of mystical, historical theology

An annotated translation of Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum presenting both the Latin text side-by-side with a new English translation which attempts to avoid the use of Latin cognates while remaining critically faithful to Bonaventure’s text. Using endnotes to open the text, Regis Armstrong opens each chapter from the perspective of historical theology referring the reader to authors prior to Bonaventure, e.g. Augustine, the Victorines, Philip the Chancellor, Avicenna, as well as first-and-second-generation Franciscan authors. While maintaining Bonaventure’s architectonic approach, Armstrong studies each chapter as Bonaventure does by focusing on its unique character, by means of cosmology, epistemology, biblical theology, and mystical theology. In the same way, the translator attempts to explain his translation of certain cognates into Anglo-Saxon English by citing contemporary linguistic tools like Brepolis Latin Texts. A brief introduction has been added which orientates readers to Bonaventure’s life and issues in his text.

Regis J. Armstrong, OFM, Cap., is emeritus professor at The Catholic University of America. Joshua C. Benson is associate professor of historical and systematic theology at The Catholic University of America.

“This translation and commentary will be especially helpful in the classroom and, as already suggested, scholars too can benefit from Armstrong’s careful attention to the text and its meaning. This translation of a classic text is destined to become a classic in its own right. We owe a great debt of thanks to Regis Armstrong for all that he has accomplished for Franciscan scholarship over the years.” - Archivum Fransiscanum Historicum

6 x 9 104 pages $19.95 June Paperback 978-0-8132-3982-8 Ebook 978-0-8132-3983-5

Ann Hartle is emeritus professor of philosophy at Emory University.

“Hartle argues that there is a parallel between O’Connor’s sense of the need to present Catholicism in the context of twentieth-century modernity and Pascal’s sense of the need to present it in the light of the changes the new science had brought to our vision of the universe. This is a significant and to my mind a convincing claim. Moreover, the author aims to show how far O’Connor’s vision can be regarded as Pascalian. This again is a significant claim.” - Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge

Flannery O’Connor and Blaise Pascal

Recovering the Incarnation for the Modern Mind Ann

Hartle

O’Connor’s stories, seen in the light of Pascal’s philosophy, reveal the meaning of faith for the Christian in the modern secular world

Flannery O’Connor is a guide for the Catholic who seeks to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to live the life of faith in the modern world. O’Connor describes herself as a Catholic burdened by the modern consciousness which the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung views as “unhistorical, solitary, and guilty.” Ann Hartle understands O’Connor’s fiction as her confrontation with this specifically modern form of consciousness. The seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal helps us to experience the meaning of O’Connor’s fiction because Pascal confronted that same consciousness in its origins in Montaigne’s philosophy. O’Connor recognizes in Pascal a truly Catholic modern philosopher who speaks to the experience of the searching mind of modern man.

Flannery O'Connor and Blaise Pascal approaches O’Connor’s fiction from a philosophical perspective rather than the perspective of a literary critic. The goal of this volume is to deepen the experience of the meaning of her stories insofar as they are addressed to a specifically modern audience burdened with the form of consciousness that is highly skeptical of the historical reality of the Christian mystery.

Hartle's argument is that modern consciousness rests on the “spiritualization” of the Incarnation. Both Montaigne and Jung abstract a purely human meaning from the historical embodied reality of the Incarnation and place that meaning in the service of modern man’s attempt at self-creation and self-redemption. O’Connor presents us with an especially vivid picture of Jung’s truly modern individual in Hazel Motes, Hulga Hopewell, George Rayber, and The Misfit. In her comic art, O’Connor brings out the possibility of grace against the background of the pervasive psychological attitude toward human conduct. She shows us how the modern distortions of the human personality can be addressed in a specifically Catholic way, that is, through the meaning of the Catholic sacramental view of life and the Catholic principle of mutual interdependence.

The New Woman

Carmen Laforet

Translated by Claire Wadie

Introduction by Caragh Wells

CATHOLIC WOMEN WRITERS

The first translated novel to appear in the Catholic Women Writers series

Carmen Laforet’s first novel, Nada, written when she was just 23, won the Nadal Prize, establishing Laforet as one of the greatest writers of post-war Spanish literature. She went on to win the Menorca Prize in 1955 and the National Literature Prize in 1956 for the novel The New Woman. Although she gradually distanced herself from the literary world in the 1970s, she was rediscovered internationally at the beginning of this century and has been translated into more than 30 languages. 2021 marked the centenary of her birth. The only novel of Laforet’s not to be translated into English is La Mujer Nueva (The New Woman). This edition offers a translation by Claire Wadie and an introduction by the Laforet scholar, Caragh Wells.

Ahead of its time, The New Woman tells the story of a woman who longs for freedom in a world in which she has been denied it. But she learns that true freedom also means responsibility. Paulina is young and passionate but vain. After leaving her husband in order to live with her married lover, Paulina experiences a profound religious conversion. She had always been critical of Catholicism but she begins to see a spiritual dimension to her own life and yearns for change. She must decide how to live authentically: stay with her lover, live alone, join a convent, or return to her husband? In making this decision, she comes to understand the full meaning of her humanity, her womanhood, and her place in society. The New Woman offers insight into a woman’s experience of the Spanish civil war and Catholicism’s abiding spiritual richness even at a time when the political situation in Spain rendered the Church unpopular in the eyes of many young women.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

Carmen Laforet (1921–2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature. Caragh Wells is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Bristol (UK). Claire Wadie is the winner of the 2021 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. 5 ½ x 8 ½

James Keating is professor of spiritual theology at Kenrick Glennon Seminary. Bishop Keith J. Chylinski is an Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

“This is a great resource for seminary spiritual directors.

Deacon James Keating offers us one approach that can serve as a model for others in that ministry. As a seasoned formator and expert on priestly formation, his insights are worth considering and applying.” - Gustavo Castillo, STD, President, Federation of Seminary Spiritual Directors

The Spiritual Formation of Seminarians

Learning to Live in Intimate and Unceasing Union with God

James Keating

Foreword by Bishop Keith J. Chylinski

An aid for seminary spiritual directors, formators and seminarians to contemplate how future clerics can deepen their relational prayer with the Holy Trinity.

In this book, Deacon James Keating provides an opportunity for one spiritual director to introduce his mind to the minds of other directors with the hope that his ideas may season their own already developed method of direction. The book does not attend to all the possible realities a director may encounter within his or her training or within the daily execution of this ministry. Keating wishes to share his approach to directing seminarians by reflecting upon themes and experiences which regularly appear within direction sessions. Spiritual direction certainly has some universal components to it. All directors want their directees to internalize a habit of prayer, to choose a life of remaining with God, to suffer the vulnerability necessary to know divine love and to then embody that love as heralds of the Gospel. But each director approaches his or her directees from within their own skin, from within a personality that is unique, and by way of a formation that reflects the unique attractions of each director and his or her own sufferings, failures, and fidelities. These unique embodiments no one writer can know or capture in a book. And so, this book simply begins a conversation that the author invites other directors to enter and add to according to their own insights. The spiritual life of those in seminary occupies the integrating center of a projected life of priestly ministry. Time needed to secure an interior life of prayer is one of the key reasons the Church demands years of formation before the celibate state is entered. Such a state in life is entered as a testimony to the reality that God lives and loves. In light of such love a man enters seminary to discern if he desires to surrender his whole life in response to God sharing His own. To live as a cleric without a vital interior life leaves a man in a state of meaninglessness. Instilling the virtue of prayer during priestly formation can help assure that celibate priesthood retains its inspiration and meaning throughout the life of a priest. Spiritual directors minister to assist a future priest to secure a lifetime habit of prayer so as to secure his commitment to communicate with the living God.

Saint Dominic and His Mission

Augustin Laffay, OP, and Gianni Festa, OP

Translated

by

the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia

Foreword by Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP

A highly readable biography of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, who has influenced the church for over 800 years

Saint Dominic had dedicated himself to a life of prayer and study as a canon regular at the Cathedral of Osma, Spain in 1197. When on a diplomatic mission through southern France, Dominic and his bishop, Diego, encountered the Cathar heresy. The Spaniards were filled with compassion and sought to counter this heresy by preaching and the example of their holy life. In the ensuing years, and with ecclesiastical approval, Dominic would gather around him a group of men, living a common life in evangelical poverty and dedicated to preaching for the salvation of souls, these were the first members of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as Dominicans.

In Saint Dominic and His Mission, two of Saint Dominic’s spiritual sons present a portrait of this Preacher of Grace using extensive research from the archives of the Order to present Dominic and his brethren in their historical context. The first section comprises two parts: a biographical sketch and an evaluation of hagiographic and historical accounts of the life of St. Dominic. It is said that St. Dominic’s gift to the Church is not extensive writings, but a way of life. The second section describes aspects of this distinctly evangelical form of life including study and preaching, fraternal life, choral office and the rosary, democratic government, and living in the heart of the Church. In the third section, the authors enlist the help of art historians who present multiple pieces of artwork, ancient and modern, to better know and understand this Doctor of Truth. The final section is a chronology of the life of St. Dominic based on the work of the renowned English Dominican Simon Tugwell, OP. Readers will find that Saint Dominic, whose life and preaching was centered on the Word Incarnate, is a perfect friend and guide to us today as we experience a revival in reverence for the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Augustin Laffay, OP, is Archivist of the Order of Preachers (Rome) and a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences. Gianni Festa, OP, is a friar of the province of St. Dominic, which covers northern Italy. He has been Postulator General for the Causes of Saints in the Order of Preachers and is currently Regent of Studies for his province, at the convent in Bologna. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, is Master of the Order. He was provincial of the Philippine province and assistant to the previous Master of the Order.

5 ½ x 8 ½ 210 pages $29.95 July Paperback 978-0-8132-3978-1 Ebook 978-0-8132-3979-8

Gavin D’Costa is professor in catholic theology, University of Bristol. Etienne Vetö, CCN is Auxiliary Bishop, Reims, France. Thomas Joseph White, OP, is Rector Magnificus of the Angelicum, Rome.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

Catholic - Jewish Engagements on Israel

Holy Land, Political Territory, or Theological Promise?

Edited by Gavin D’Costa, Etienne Vetö, CCN, and Thomas Joseph White, OP

JUDAISM AND CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

Brings together a group of international Jewish and Catholic scholars in creative conversation addressing the question of the status of the land called Israel

This is the first volume of its kind, bringing together a group of international Jewish and Catholic scholars in creative conversation addressing the question of the status of the land called Israel. Is Israel best viewed as political territory, the ‘Holy Land’, or part of the biblical promise? If committing to one of these options, what are the theological and political consequences?

The book is divided into sections that take the reader through several related questions that bear upon this topic. There is a preface with an overview of how far Catholic Jewish conversations have gone since Nostra Aetate, and how these conversations have now begun to address the land. Then there is an attempt to advance positive theological cases by Catholics and Jews affirming the people in the land as theologically significant, not without difficulties regarding the state itself. The next section deals with the bible/Tanakh as the basis of such claims and addresses the different reading strategies by each community. One of the central questions is then addressed: what of the Palestinian people, do the biblical promise to the Jewish people spell disaster for the Palestinians? Can revelation mean dispossession? The following essays address a stumbling block for both groups: do Jewish and Christian theologies underwrite a nation state? Isn’t this option perilously close to God underwriting nationalism? The book ends with subtle critiques of the entire venture undertaken in this volume.

Essential reading for Catholic Jewish relations and one that addresses one of the most pressing contemporary questions for both religions.

CONTRIBUTORS

Rabbi Jehoschua Ahrens, Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Jerusalem

Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame

Karma Ben-Johanan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Gavin D’Costa, University of Bristol

Archbishop Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy

Rabbi Eugene Korn, former Academic Director, Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation

6 x 9 316 pages $34.95 July Paperback 978-0-8132-3974-3

Ebook 978-0-8132-3975-0

Rabbi David Meyer, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome

Yonatan Moss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rabbi David Novak, Temple Sinai, Palm Desert, CA

Marc Rastoin, SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome

Rabbi David Rosen, Chief Rabbinate, Israel's Committee for Interreligious Dialogue

Rev. Yazid Said, Liverpool Hope University

Fr. Joseph Sievers, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome

Etienne Vetö, CCN, auxiliary bishop, Reims, France

Tehila Wenger, Geneva Institute, Israel

Thomas Joseph White, OP, Angelicum, Rome

Judith Wolfe, University of Oxford

William M. Wright IV, Duquesne University

Church, State, and Society

An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrine Second edition

J.

Brian Benestad and Ryan Connors

CATHOLIC MORAL THOUGHT

A second edition of this groundbreaking work in Catholic social doctrine

Church, State, and Society explains the nuanced understanding of human dignity and the common good found in the Catholic intellectual tradition. It makes the case that liberal-arts education is an essential part of the common good because it helps people understand their dignity and all that justice requires.

The book is divided into four parts. The first treats key themes of social life: the dignity of the human person, human rights, natural law, and the common good. Part two focuses on the three principal mediating institutions of civil society: the family, the Church, and the Catholic university. Part three considers the economy, work, poverty, immigration, and the environment, while part four focuses on the international community and just war principles. The conclusion discusses tension between Catholic Social Doctrine and liberal democracy.

This second edition contains new chapters on religious liberty, cooperation with evil, issues around gender ideology, and contemporary questions of Catholics in political life, including regarding the reception of the sacraments. The book also includes new material on economic and social teaching of the Magisterium promulgated since the first edition, especially related to the teaching of Benedict XVI.

ALSO IN THE SERIES

J. Brian Benestad is D’Amour Chair in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Assumption University. Ryan Connors is a priest of the Diocese of Providence (RI) and professor of moral theology at St. John’s Seminary (Boston), as well as the author of Rethinking Cooperation with Evil: A Virtue-Based Approach (CUA Press).

“Treats complicated issues with subtlety and yet at the same time offers a broad and comprehensible introduction from which an interested reader, whether in the classroom or not, can profit wonderfully. . Church, State, and Society is the best introduction to Catholic social doctrine I have encountered, and it is well worth the investment.”Nova et Vetera (review for the first edition)

6⅛ x 9¼ 596 pages $34.95 June Paperback 978-0-8132-3964-4 Ebook 978-0-8132-3965-1

Jason L.A. West is professor of philosophy at Newman Theological College, Edmonton, Canada.

“Jason West’s contribution is a comprehensive and accessible presentation of Jacques Maritain’s thought. It has the potential to bring Maritain a generation of new readers and to enable friends of longstanding to better appreciate Maritain’s thought on particular issues in the context of his wide ranging thought.”—James Jacobs, author of Seat of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy in the Catholic Tradition (CUA Press).

The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain

Jason L.A. West

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Jacques Maritain

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 coherent philosophy in its own right.

This is the only book in English to present Maritain’s philosophy on the full range of topics upon which he wrote. It focusses on Maritain as a twentieth-century philosopher, rather than an interpreter of Aquinas. Accordingly, this book presents Maritain’s philosophy in its own context. Finally, this work is also attentive to the religious context of Maritain’s philosophy and highlights his overlooked contributions to theology and other areas of philosophy that are informed by his theological commitments, e.g. mysticism, ecclesiology, education and philosophy of history. Accordingly, The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain aims at providing the reader with a comprehensive presentation of Maritain’s thought and a clear vision of his philosophy as a whole.

6 x 9 344 pages $34.95 February

Plants, Animals, People, Aliens

An Aristotelian-Thomist Perspective on Life in the Universe

Marie I. George

Examines whether modern science justifies the rejection of Aristotelian-Thomistic views on the soul and on the fundamental division of living things from the perspective of Christian belief

Aristotle famously maintains in his treatise On the Soul that there are three kinds of living things-- plants, animals, and humans--and he speaks of each kind as having a soul. St. Thomas Aquinas adopts these same views. Nowadays, however, many thinkers reject them on the grounds that they are incompatible with modern science. Molecular biology is seen as affording a superior way of categorizing life forms. Evolutionary biology appears to have established that humans are simply primates with adaptations somewhat different from other primates. Plant physiology, uncovering plants’ directional responses to a wide variety of different stimuli, provides reason to think that plants sense light, pressure, odor, pathogens, etc., in which case plants are simply non-mobile animals, similar to coral. Neuroscience, by showing the dependency of thought, choice, perception, and emotion on the central nervous system, especially on the brain, seems to have eliminated any need to posit a soul.

Plants, Animals, People, Aliens addresses these and a variety of other science-based claims about living things by bringing Aristotelian-Thomistic teachings to bear upon them. While not a systematic work, it both treats some of the most hotly debated philosophical questions concerning living things, such as what it means to be alive, as well as treating questions less often raised by philosophers, such as whether animals have a theory of mind. Though geared primarily to those conversant with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, many of its key concepts are traced back to experiences that we all share in common, thus rendering these concepts intelligible, if not convincing, to those with scientific and other backgrounds who are curious about this philosophical approach to living things. The author strives to show how Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy and science complement one another by sketching out the fuller understanding of the living realm that the two together provide.

The book’s final section considers the possibility and the likelihood that embodied rational beings exist elsewhere in our universe. Here, theological arguments drawn from the Christian faith are presented alongside philosophical and scientific arguments. This section closes with a theological discussion of the disputed question of whether extraterrestrials, were they to exist, should be baptized.

Marie I. George is professor of philosophy, St. John’s University, Queens.

“This collection of essays will definitely find interest among convinced followers of the Aristotelian-Thomistic framework. It will provide them with new arguments and insights. It should be appreciated by the students learning about the same framework. For this reason it may be used in the academic setting, not really as a textbook but rather a set of essays worth visiting.”—Mariusz Tabaczek, OP, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum)

6 x 9 424 pages $34.95 July Paperback 978-0-8132-3956-9 Ebook 978-0-8132-3957-6

Br. Antonios the Shenoudian (Anthony Bibawy) is a monk of the Coptic Monastery of Saint Shenouda, Rochester, NY.

“Convincingly argues that Cyril and some Eastern contemporaries write frequently about Adam’s sin in a way that defies a stereotype found in some modern literature that pits the East against Augustine…a highly significant contribution to scholarship.” - Andrew Hofer, OP, author of The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (CUA Press).

ALSO IN THE SERIES

Adam’s Sin, Our Humanity, and Christ’s Redemption in Cyril of Alexandria

An Eastern Christian Theological Anthropology

Anthony Bibawy

PATRISTIC THEOLOGY

The first published study of Cyril of Alexandria’s soteriology in detail, and in particular his teaching on sin and atonement

As a result of the neo-patristic movement of the early twentieth century, the teachings of original sin and atonement as understood in the West were questioned and reformulated based on what was believed to be early Eastern Christian patristic thought. This new paradigm proposed that humanity inherited death and corruption, but not sin, from Adam and that the purpose of the Incarnation and salvific work of Christ was to restore humanity from death and corruption, but not an inherent sinfulness.

In contrast to this popular and seemingly dogmatic paradigm and false dichotomy between Western and Eastern teaching on sin and atonement, this volume asserts that the writings of many Eastern fathers of the early fifth century incorporate many, if not the majority, of the terms and teachings behind what have been labeled as Western departures concerning original sin and atonement. Through a comprehensive analysis of the writings of Cyril of Alexandria and some of his contemporaries in the early fifth century East during the time of the Pelagian controversy, this book demonstrates that a central and consistent theme of their soteriology revolves around the sinfulness and guilt of all humanity that is rooted in Adam’s sin by nature and is resolved only through recapitulation into the new root, the second Adam, the impeccable Christ. Christ’s impeccability is necessary to correct the state of sinfulness and guilt in humanity through his incarnation and spotless sacrifice on the cross as a ransom and substitute on behalf of and in exchange of all to satisfy the divine justice and to restore humanity to its original state in the divine image.

The Letters of St. Patrick and Early Patrician Literature

Translated by Philip Freeman

LIBRARY OF EARLY

Brings together for the first time in a single volume the most important works of the Patrician tradition

The two fifth-century letters of St. Patrick are the earliest records we have of Christianity in Ireland. Written in Latin in his later years, they are an intimate and revealing look into the life and world of a man who was among the first to spread the Gospel to a land beyond the Roman Empire. Both Patrick’s Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus and his Confession detail his many admitted failings and insecurities but also his passionate faith in God and his mission to the Irish. These letters are presented in this volume with both the Latin originals and translation along with other key texts of early Patrician literature, including Muirchu’s Life of St. Patrick, Tírechán’s Journey of St. Patrick, The First Synod of St. Patrick, The Hymn of St. Secundinus, and the Old Irish St. Patrick’s Breastplate. It includes a detailed introduction, commentary, notes, and other useful tools, along with a complete bibliography. The Letters of St. Patrick and Early Patrician Literature brings together for the first time in a single volume the most important works of the Patrician tradition and allows students and scholars from many different fields the opportunity to explore these rich texts.

Philip Freeman is Fletcher Jones Chair and professor of humanities, Pepperdine University.

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Consolation to Stagirius

St. John Chrysostom

Translated by Robert G.T. Edwards FATHERS OF THE CHURCH, VOL 149

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Exegetical Epistles, Volume 2

St. Jerome

Translated by Thomas P. Scheck FATHERS OF THE CHURCH, VOL. 148

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Exegetical Epistles, Volume 1

St. Jerome

Translated by Thomas P. Scheck FATHERS OF THE CHURCH, VOL. 147

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Peter D. Steiger is associate professor of religious studies, Chaminade University, Hawaii. 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ 250 pages $45.00 August Cloth 978-0-8132-3942-2

On Job

Didymus the Blind

Translated by Peter D. Steiger

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH VOLUME 150

The first full length English translation on the Book of Job by Didymus the Blind

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 of Didymus published in the Fathers of the Church series (preceded by Didymus’ On Genesis and On Zechariah translated by Robert C. Hill) and the last of the commentaries discovered at Tura in 1941 that was edited for circulation in late antiquity, since Didymus’ comments on Ecclesiastes and Psalms are unedited transcripts of his public lectures, replete with student questions.

The Book of Job has garnered perpetual attention because of its intriguing dialogues between God and the Devil, Job and his wife, Job and his three friends and inevitably between Job and God. In recent years, it has become the focus of attention among scholars seeking to make sense of the horrors of the Holocaust and other 20th century atrocities where unlimited human cruelty and injustice strained any notions of Providence and the salvific nature of suffering by the righteous. Written at a pivotal time when Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism were emerging as distinct interpretive traditions, Didymus’ commentary on the Book of Job offers important insights into the interpretation of Job based on the LXX translation which was a foundational text for early Christian doctrine, spirituality and liturgy. His presentation of Job as the icon of a student-loving teacher stands in contrast to the portrait of a blasphemous Job more familiar to modern audiences that value a bold iconoclastic character who puts God on trial for allowing human injustice. Didymus’ comments on Job hint at the blind teacher’s own mature consideration of his experience as a Christian teacher, concerned to train other potential leaders in the burgeoning post-Constantinian Church, whether as an ecclesiastical minister, monastic abba, governor, or teacher. As such, this early Christian commentary on the Book of Job merits further study because it illustrates an early exegetical trajectory that was already embedded in the Christian tradition prior Jerome’s advocacy of the Hebraica Veritas.

On Job, Volume 2

St. Albert the Great

Translated by Franklin T. Harkins

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL

CONTINUATION SERIES, VOL. 23

The first English translation of Albert the Great’s On Job

Even prior to his death on 15 November 1280, the Dominican master Albert of Lauingen was legendary for his erudition. He was widely recognized for the depth and breadth of his learning in the philosophical disciplines as well as in the study of God, earning him the titles Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus. Moreover, his authoritative teaching merited him the moniker Magnus, an appellation bestowed on no other man of the High Middle Ages.

This volume contains the second half of Albert the Great’s commentary On Job (on chs. 22-42), translated into English for the first time; a translation of the first half of the work appeared in an earlier volume of the Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation series (Vol. 19, 2019). Albert completed Super Iob in 1272 or 1274, when he was over seventy years old, at the Dominican Kloster of Heilige Kreuz in Cologne, where, as lector emeritus of the Order, he likely lectured on this profound biblical book. Significantly, Albert may have been inspired to produce On Job by his most famous student, Thomas Aquinas, who had written his own Joban commentary, the Expositio super Iob ad litteram, while serving as conventual lector at San Domenico in Orvieto from 1261 to 1264. Yet Albert occupies a unique position in the history of the interpretation of Job: he is the first and only exegete in history who explicitly reads the whole book as a debate in the mode of an academic or scholastic disputation among Job and his friends about divine providence concerning human affairs. Albert understands God, in the final chapters of Job, to determine the disputed question in favor of Job and against his friends, namely declaring that He (i.e., God) rules human life with no consideration of human works, but rather that divine governance is dissimilar to every mode of human rule.

Franklin T. Harkins is professor of historical theology and Professor Ordinarius, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.

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Commentary on the Songs of Songs

Rupert of Deutz

Translated by Jieon Kim and Vittorio Hosle

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION SERIES, VOL 22

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On the Formation of Clergy

Bl. Hrabanus Maurus

Translated by Owen M. Phelan

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION SERIES, VOL 21

Cloth $45.00 978-0-8132-3639-1

On Resurrection

St. Albert The Great

Translated by Irven M. Resnick and Franklin T. Harkins

FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION SERIES, VOL 20

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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Paul J. Griffiths is the author of Why Read Pascal?; The Practice of Catholic Theology: A Modest Proposal and Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar (all CUA Press).

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A Defense of Free Will Against Luther Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio,

Article 36

St. John Fisher

Translated by Thomas P. Scheck

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Jansenism

An International Anthology

Edited by Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder

Paper $34.95 978-0-8132-3836-4

On the Moderation of Reason in Religious Matters

Ludovico Antonio Muratori

Translated by Ulrich L. Lehner

Cloth $75.00 978-0-8132-3844-9

Writings on Grace

The Complete Écrits

sur la grace

Blaise Pascal

Translated with an essay by Paul J. Griffiths

EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC SOURCES

A key entry point to Blaise Pascal’s thought

A few years before he died in 1662, Blaise Pascal wrote fifteen interconnected essays on grace, which have collectively come to be known as the Écrits sur la grâce. These were not published before his death, and were not polished and revised by him with an eye to publication, which means that they show his mind at work experimentally, trying out lines of argument and engagements with magisterial and patristic texts without resolving them into anything like a final system. The Écrits are replete with experimental formulations and bursts of literary and intellectual energy; taken together, they provide an intense and extreme presentation of Pascal’s version of Augustinianism with respect to grace, election, and predestination, the meaning of the Council of Trent, and much else. These essays provide one of the keys to the entirety of Pascal’s thought, and they provide a view of grace’s workings -- perhaps better, a grammar of grace -- which still warrants serious attention by Catholic theologians.

Less than one-fifth of the Écrits has yet been published in English. This book provides a complete translation, made from the French text provided in Michel Le Guern’s edition (1998, 2000) of Pascal’s Oeuvres complètes, and annotated to provide full information about Pascal’s sources and how he used them. The translation is followed by a substantial interpretive essay in which Pascal’s positions and approaches are restated and argued with.

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Teacher of the Logos

Essays on Origen’s Rediscovered Last Work

Edited by Joseph W. Trigg and Robin Darling Young

CUA STUDIES IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Scholars of Origen and his followers examine aspects of the greatest discoveries in the field of early Christian studies/patristics in the twenty-first century

In 2012 Marina Molin Pradel, an archivist at the Bavarian State Library discovered that CMG 314, a long-neglected Byzantine manuscript , contained twenty-nine homilies by Origen, the most important and most talented genius of early Christianity. He delivered these homilies around 259 CE, shortly before arrest and torture during the Decian persecution would put an end to his work. Thus, along with the Contra Celsum, Origen’s lengthy defense of Christianity, written after 248, when that persecution was clearly impending, they enable readers to appreciate Origen’s fully-developed thought.

Except for the four of these homilies that had been translated into Latin in the fifth century, scholars of Origen thought that all the homilies on the Psalms had been lost. In 2015 Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna, an eminent Origen scholar, assisted by a team including Dr. Pradel, produced a magnificent critical edition of the text.

In 2017 the editors of this volume organized a colloquium in Washington, DC, generously hosted by the program in Early Christian Studies. The authors of this volume, a group of American and Canadian scholars, invited Professor Perrone to address the discovery of the homilies and his edition, and to join their discussion of their interpretation. This volume represents the group’s energetic investigations and discussion over the two days of the conference. The essays address Origen’s use of language, his philosophical interests, his relationship with Judaism, and his scholarly patrimony in the next century.

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Joseph W. Trigg is a scholar of early Christianity and translator of early Christian texts. Robin Darling Young is associate professor of theology and religious studies at The Catholic University of America.

CONTRIBUTORS

Miriam De Cock, Dublin City University

Mark Randall James, independent scholar

Elizabeth Dively Lauro, Loyola Marymount University

Margaret Mitchell, University of Chicago Divinity School

Lorenzo Perrone, University of Bologna, Italy

Alex Poulos, independent scholar

6 x 9 300 pages $75.00 September

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Ebook 978-0-8132-3967-5

Simon Whedbee is instructor of classical studies at Loyola University New Orleans.

Peter Comestor’s Lectures on the Gospel of Luke and its Glosses

Peter Comestor

Translated by Simon Whedbee

TEXTS AND STUDIES IN HIGH MEDIEVAL SCHOLASTIC THOUGHT

Uncovers the pedagogical practices that informed the understanding of Christian biblical exegesis in the Latin Middle Ages ALSO IN THE SERIES

Through a partial critical edition and study of Peter Comestor’s lectures, this volume recontextualizes the biblical exegesis of the twelfth-century Latin cathedral schools within the frameworks of the study of ars grammatica, underscoring the importance of the master-disciple relationship in forming medieval exegetical schools of thought. This study critically examines the Latin biblical lectures of Peter Comestor, a twelfth-century scholar based in Paris, focusing on his commentary on the Gospel of Luke and its glossing tradition. The study positions Comestor’s lectures among Latin biblical commentaries produced in the cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, a vital intellectual movement shaped by well-known figures such as Anselm of Laon and Peter Lombard, and which provided the foundations for the University of Paris.

Recent scholarship has sought to bridge the gap between biblical commentaries and systematic theological treatises by highlighting the shared didactic methodologies between the medieval study of the liberal arts and sacred scripture. This study of Comestor’s Luke lectures expands these efforts, underscoring the role of classical philology and liberal arts pedagogy in shaping medieval theological thought.

The volume highlights how the cathedral school scholars of northern France approached Christian theology as a work of textual criticism, exploring a wide range of subjects—from geometry to canon law—through biblical interpretation. By tracing these intellectual traditions, the study uncovers the pedagogical practices that informed the understanding of Christian biblical exegesis in the Latin Middle Ages, particularly in the period leading up to the establishment of Europe’s first universities and theology faculties.

Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law

Edited by Justin M. Anderson and Atria A. Larson

Constitutes the first sustained, book-length study of the influence the medieval canonical tradition exercised on Thomas Aquinas’s thought and his own adaptation of that tradition

Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law bridges, for the first time, two worlds of scholarship that have never been explored in book-length form and investigates an under-researched area in Thomistic studies, namely the question of how Thomas Aquinas engaged the ecclesiastical law and jurisprudence of his day.

Neither historians of medieval canon law nor experts on Thomas’s thought have previously paid much attention to the canon law tradition as a source for Thomas’s work and an influence on his thought. But, as this volume shows, his consideration of mendicant life, law, justice, oaths, penance, clerical orders, the Eucharist, baptism, property, commerce, marriage and more reveal engagement with key canon law texts and concepts and with the jurisprudence of major canonists. The book uncovers how Aquinas encountered canonical regulations and jurisprudence as a Dominican, an educator in both theology and pastoral care, and a participant in the secular-mendicant controversy. In his life, education, community, and his way of thought, Thomas Aquinas could not avoid and necessarily encountered and dealt with the canonical tradition. He did so in a distinctive way, working as he did with his theological and philosophical source material to craft his own great synthesis. What this volume shows, if nothing else, is that the canon law tradition should be taken into consideration when assessing Thomas’s synthetic thought.

Following the editors’ introduction, thirteen scholarly contributions and an epilogue explore Aquinas’s interaction with medieval canon law through four major themes: Dominican Matters; Foundations Matters of Faith, Truth, and Law; Moral Matters; and Sacramental Matters. Approximately half the contributors are specialists from the field of medieval canon law, and half are grounded in Thomistic tradition. The result is a unique and scholarly contribution to two major research areas that may open avenues for similar studies of other key figures in the scholastic tradition.

CONTRIBUTORS

Justin M. Anderson, Seton Hall University

Jason A. Brown, University of Manitoba

Andrew Hofer, OP, Dominican House of Studies

Mark Johnson, Marquette University

Atria A. Larson, Saint Louis University

Reginald Lynch, OP, Dominican House of Studies

Andrea Padovani, University of Bologna

Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America

Charles Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Riccardo Saccenti, University of Bergamo

Thierry Sol, Pontifical University of Santa Croce, Rome

Bart Wauters, IE University, Madrid

Justin M. Anderson is professor and Chair of Moral Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University and co-editor of Ignatius of Loyola and Thomas Aquinas: A Jesuit Ressourcement (CUA Press). Atria A. Larson is associate professor of medieval christianity at Saint Louis University, and the author of Gratian’s Tractatus de penitentia: A New Latin Edition with English Translation and Master of Penance: Gratian and the Development of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century (both CUA Press).

“A milestone for future research in the field. The book is a much awaited and needed input to the analysis of the nature of law and of the particular canonical issues from a distinctly Thomist perspective. The scholars selected for each topic are among the best experts for that particular topic currently available in the world.”—Petar Popovic, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

6 x 9 402 pages $85.00 June Cloth 978-0-8132-3934-7 Ebook 978-0-8132-3935-4

Kenneth W. Kemp is professor emeritus of philosophy at University of St. Thomas, MN.

"Kemp’s contribution is not only significant, but will become the standard reference work in this field. No one up to this point has ever given such a thorough account of the work of scientists and theologians, magisterial activity and non-official publication. This book is a triumph of sound, thorough and responsible scholarship, I can honestly say that nothing like this book exists."

—Christopher T. Baglow, University of Notre Dame

The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, 1831-1950

Kenneth W. Kemp

A history of the idea that evolutionary biology is compatible with Catholic theology

The history of the Catholic Church’s response to evolutionary biology has often been badly misrepresented as antagonistic. In fact, its response is better characterized as a long process of accommodation. This work is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the Catholic scientists and theologians who worked out the details of that accommodation.

Few Catholics found the evolutionary origin of plant and animal species theologically objectionable. None thought that evolutionary processes provided a sufficient account of the origin of the first human beings. Catholics differed over whether those processes played a role in the origin of the first human body.

Catholic evolutionism began with the work of four nineteenth-century scientists who might be called the pioneers of Catholic evolutionism—Belgian geologist Jean-Baptiste d’Omalius d’Halloy, English anatomist George Mivart, Italian anatomist Filippo De Filippi, and French paleontologist Albert Gaudry. The next generations of Catholic evolutionists, writing in the period from about 1890 - 1940, included scientists (Jesuit entomologists Erich Wasmann and Felix Rüschkamp) as well as priests who focused more exclusively on the question of compatibility (Dalmace Leroy, John Zahm, Henry de Dorlodot, and Ernest Messenger). Among the scientists might also be included French paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who made some contributions to the general idea of the compatibility of evolutionary biology and Catholic theology, but who eventually veered off in the direction of a comprehensive evolutionary theology of nature the details of which are beyond the scope of this book.

Catholic anti-evolutionists made efforts to have the Church prohibit works of Catholic evolutionism that, in their judgment gave evolutionary processes too great a role in the formation of the human body or that relied on problematic principles of hermeneutics. Efforts on the former front were eventually blocked by Pope Pius XI. The first magisterial statement on the question came, however, only in 1950, with Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Humani generis, which provisionally declared the orthodoxy of evolutionary accounts of the origin of the human body.

In addition to providing details about Catholic evolutionists and the magisterium, the book also reviews the treatment of the new ideas in Catholic encyclopedias, periodicals, and textbooks. Although written in the first instance as a work of scholarship, the book was also written with attention to the needs of scientists, priests, and members of the general public who are interested in the question.

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Approaching the Assumption, 1863–1950

Revelation, Scripture, and the Laity in the Development of a Marian Dogma

Eric Lafferty

How the Assumption of Mary became a Dogma of the Catholic Church

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 remained undefined. This changed in 1950 when Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary a dogma of the Catholic Church. In this rare exercise of papal authority, Pius XII infallibly and irrevocably taught that the Assumption was a truth revealed by God. This book explores how the definition of this Marian dogma came to fruition.

After a brief history of the prior three Marian dogmas — Mother of God, Ever-Virgin, and the Immaculate Conception — this book narrates the major moments in the effort to obtain a dogmatic definition of the Assumption. The beginning of this “Assumptionist movement” can be dated to 1863 when Queen Isabel II of Spain petitioned the pope to declare the Assumption a dogma. Subsequently, petitionary efforts and scholarly inquiry increased and spread throughout the world. In addition to the narrative of this movement, this book gives special consideration to three vital aspects: debate over the Assumption’s definability as a dogma, if and how Scripture reveals the Assumption, and the contribution of the laity on a matter of doctrine.

Collectively, the Assumptionist movement emerges as a critical event in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic Church. Culminating in a dogmatic definition shortly before the opening of Vatican II, it also serves as a key point of inquiry for continuity and development of doctrine. A final chapter argues that the operative beliefs pertaining to Revelation, Scripture, and the laity during the Assumptionist movement stand in continuity with the teachings of Vatican II.

Eric Lafferty teaches at the Chesterton Academy of St. Joseph, Dayton, OH.

“A significant contribution to theological scholarship on revelation, Scripture, and the laity in the pre-Vatican II era as well as to a fuller understanding of doctrinal development and continuity in the Church.”—Danielle M. Peters, STD, Institute for Church Life

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Michael Joseph Higgins is professor of humanities at St. Jerome Institute, Washington.

“A significant contribution to the field of Trinitarian theology, Higgins quite successfully overcomes the persistent conflict between psychological and social view of the Trinity. An effective effort to reset the terms of the debate and will demand attention from anyone who persists in assuming the conflict between the two proposed schools of thought or who still wishes to drive a wedge between essential and personal constructs of divine love.”

—Timothy L. Smith, author of Thomas Aquinas’ Trinitarian Theology: A Study in Theological Method (CUA Press).

Giving One’s Word

Interpersonal

Love, Knowledge, and Self-Giving in Aquinas’s Psychological Analogy for the Trinity

Michael Joseph Higgins

A fresh look at Aquinas finds interpersonal knowledge, love, and self-giving at the center of his psychological analogy

According to the vast majority of recent Trinitarian theologians, to believe in the Trinity is to believe that God is Love: it is to believe in three divine Persons Who know each other, love each other, and give themselves to each other. St. Thomas Aquinas is rarely invoked as a patron of such a social approach to the Trinity. Aquinas’s Trinitarian theology, after all, revolves around the immanent processions of a Word and Love within the unity of the divine essence. Many have assumed that this “psychological analogy” is removed from—or even incompatible with—interpersonal knowledge, love, and self-giving. Some have concluded that Aquinas is therefore unable to accommodate a social Trinity. Others have argued that he is open to a social Trinity, but that his psychological categories need to be complemented by a more overtly social framework. This study, however, shows that these psychological categories themselves are shot through with interpersonal knowledge, love, and self-giving.

More specifically, Aquinas’s psychological analogy is often accused of emphasizing the unity of the divine essence at the expense of the distinction of the divine Persons. In fact, it emphasizes distinction just as basically as it emphasizes unity, and it ensures that the distinction between the divine Persons is a radical one. Similarly, it is criticized for being a matter of self-knowledge instead of interpersonal knowledge, self-love instead of interpersonal love, and self-regard instead of self-giving. In fact, it is a matter of self-knowledge as interpersonal knowledge, self-love as interpersonal love, and self-regard as self-giving: it ensures that there can be no self-knowledge or self-love in God that is not just as basically interpersonal knowledge, interpersonal love, and interpersonal self-giving. Aquinas’s psychological analogy, then, does not shut down the possibility of interpersonal Trinity. Nor does it need to be complemented from the outside by an interpersonal Trinity. Instead, it contains within itself an intensely interpersonal Trinity.

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body

A Limit Case for John Paul II’s Theological Anthropology

Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren

The only book currently addressing the question of intersexuality through a specifically Catholic lens

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers an interpretation of John Paul II’s theology of the body that demonstrates how it can encompass intersexual bodies. Intersexuality has been used to challenge binary anthropologies, such as the late pope’s. Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren theorizes that John Paul II’s anthropology answers the “frequency dilemma,” by learning from male and female bodies while respecting the humanity of people with ambiguous bodies.

To argue this, Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers biological, psychological, and theological literature on intersexuality (focusing on the anthropologies of Susannah Cornwall and Megan DeFranza), followed by the late pope’s anthropology (focusing on original solitude, the spousal meaning of the body, and the semiotic meanings of the body). This volume demonstrates that intersexual bodies have a spousal meaning, although obscured, and use original solitude to show that John Paul II attributes to the human body meaning not dependent on sexual difference: the first man learns from his solitary body that he is relational. This relationality is fundamental to the imago Dei and undergirds the imago Dei found in communion. Intersexual bodies share human nature and thus the bodily call to relationship.

Finally, Lofgren argues that John Paul II’s eschatology involves a transformation of humankind that fulfills the semiotic value of the body. The sign gives way to the mystery: the person fully realized as self-gift. Because the mystery does not depend on the sign, this vision includes intersexual bodies. This discussion leads to a brief consideration of celibacy and marriage for persons with intersexual conditions. This is currently the only application of John Paul II’s theology of the body to these complex situations.

Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren is an adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America.

“I read this book twice because I learned much from my first reading. The first book that interrogates JPII’s theology of the body to find a fitting and unique place for the intersexed individual in God’s creation. It highlights the shortcomings of the pope’s critics charitably and convincingly rebuts their objections by providing readers with a sophisticated analysis of the pope’s writings. I especially enjoyed the discussion of original solitude and its central role in authentically interpreting the pope’s work. This is a significant contribution!” – Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Thomas W. Jodziewicz is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Dallas.

“Makes a real contribution to the English and American Catholic scholarly landscape.”—Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis

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The Correspondence of John Carroll and Charles Plowden, 1779-1816

Edited by Thomas W. Jodziewicz

Through their correspondence this volume offers an “insiders” look at the establishment of the Catholic Church in the United States

The correspondence between Bishop John Carroll and Fr. Charles Plowden offers an “insiders’” look at the establishment of the Catholic Church in the United States and the circumstances of the project of bringing about English Catholic emancipation. Carroll was the chief architect of the former; Plowden was a spirited, and public, and published, participant in the latter. Their correspondence is filled with details about their activities, and mutual encouragement, as each of these ex-Jesuits encountered the upheavals precipitated by wars (American Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleonic); the contemporary intellectual, theological, philosophical challenges of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason; anti-Catholic (and anti-Jesuit) sentiment and prejudices; the long wait for renewal of the Society of Jesus; the situation (and prerogatives) of the papacy; and the vagaries of early modern postal service.

The Carroll side of this correspondence has been printed (although not completely accurately), but the Plowden side, far more strident and provocative, has mostly been unnoticed. Plowden’s letters, and published writings, with Carroll’s comments on them all, provide significant insights into the intricacies of the English Catholic excitement, including internal tensions, accompanying the early modern crusade for religious emancipation in Britain.

DISTRIBUTED PRESSES

Laura Pooley currently supervises in Classics at the University of Cambridge. She spent a transformative year in Rome studying Latin under Reginald Foster and shares this training and experience with learners from beginner to advanced level both online and at the Benedictine Institute in London.

ALSO BY LAURA POOLEY

Ossa Ostensa

A Proven System for Demystifying Latin, Book 3

Laura Pooley

CATHOLIC EDUCATION PRESS

The third in the series of the world’s only fully demonstrated example of how to teach and learn using the pioneering Latin teaching system of Reginald Foster

Ossa Ostensa is the world’s first comprehensive example of how to teach and learn the Latin language using the unique teaching system of the internationally recognized authority Reginald Foster. Laura Pooley – prize-winning graduate of the University of Oxford and currently a supervisor at the University of Cambridge, brings to life the year she spent in Rome studying Latin with Reginaldus. His inspiring and transformative method of teaching combines with Laura’s twenty years of teaching experience to produce concise and crystal-clear explanations of the language. The three ‘experiences’ of Latin: beginners, intermediates and advanced, are divided between three user-friendly workbooks. Each workbook comprises around thirty lessons, where the language is presented in hand-out form requiring very little modification by prospective teachers. Each language area is then illustrated by translated reading examples. After each lesson, Laura provides translation practice targeted to the taught content. These Latin passages are divided into Classical and Post-Classical literature, to appeal to the interests of all Latin students. Not only that, but each passage is accompanied by teaching questions and translation hints, the mainstay of Reginaldus’ classroom persona and pedagogy so famously encapsulated in his Ludi. Students therefore can exercise recent language content and develop deep and spontaneous fluency in the Latin language. In Book 3 of the Ossa Ostensa series, you will meet all the final elements of Reginaldus’ formal teaching. These include a comprehensive review of noun case uses, verbs of fearing and doubting, summaries of expressing purpose and commands and the complexities of indirect discourse. After this book you will have met pretty much anything Latin can throw at you, and the life-long enjoyment can really begin!

The Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education and Culture

Volume 1: From Jesus the Teacher to St. John Henry Newman

Edited by Alex E. Lessard and R. Jared Staudt

CATHOLIC EDUCATION PRESS

Seeks to provide inspiration to return to the central vision of Catholic education

Catholic education stands in need of renewal, for it too has experienced the consequences of the rupture of faith and reason in the modern period. Secularism affects Catholic schools as well as public ones when faith remains confined solely to a religion class or the celebration of the Mass. Our past provides a model of integration: the unity of divine revelations and the liberal arts and a life of wisdom that pursues what is truly highest. Modern people too often settle for less—little comforts and distractions—while the theologians, philosophers, and educators of the past spur us on to stop at nothing less than God’s invitation to enter his divine life.

This first volume of the Adeodatus Handbook seeks to provide inspiration to return to the central vision of Catholic education: an integrated approach to the liberal arts that flows from God’s initiative toward us and is ordered toward eternal union with him. The essays of this volume unfold the narrative offered in this introduction in more detail. We consider them to be the most essential figures who have established the Catholic approach to education. Two of them, Plato and Aristotle, were pagan authors who formed the philosophical basis of the Catholic approach. The others, flowing from the Incarnation of the Son of God, appropriated the truths of nature contemplated by philosophy and drew them into a sacramental synthesis with the truths of divine revelation. There can be no genuine Christian education that does not help the student to contemplate the whole of reality and to live a life of wisdom, rooted in the virtues that perfect human nature while ultimately receptive of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The majority of the figures addressed in this volume are canonized saints, pointing us to the priority of holiness in Catholic education. Education serves the ultimate aim of human life: our perfect happiness in the beatific vision. To reach this, we need the support of mentors and friends. This requires the concrete embodiment of Christian community within the home and school. It can also, however, flow from our communion with the great sainted educators of our heritage. We have inherited their legacy, and with their prayers and support, we have been tasked with continuing in our own age. We will not be able to replicate their efforts, but with the grace and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, we can make our contribution in educating the youth, young adults, seminarians, and lay people of the Church of God.

Alex E. Lessard is the Founder and President of Adeodatus. R. Jared Staudt is the Director of Content for Exodus 90; the author of Words Made Flesh: The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education and the editor of Renewing Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision in a Secular Age (both Catholic Education Press).

RECENT TITLES FROM CATHOLIC EDUCATION PRESS

Stefan Oster is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the Latin Church bishop of Passau since 2014. Peter Seewald is a German journalist and author with a focus on religious topics, especially on Pope Benedict XVI.

RECENT TITLES FROM FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

God without a People? The Church and the Crisis of Faith

Bishop Stefan Oster in conversation with Peter

Seewald

Translated by Beate Engel-Doyle and Karl F. Hahn

Edited by Michael J. Miller

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

A wide-ranging conversation on whether and how Catholicism still fits in a “civil society”

Is there a connection between the crisis of the Church and the crisis of society? In this wide-ranging conversation, Bishop Stefan Oster and veteran journalist Peter Seewald discuss whether and how Catholicism still fits a “civil society” and increasingly globalized world. For the bishop, the future of the Catholic Church is a matter of renewal resulting from preservation. Speaking to the state of the Church in Germany while applying those lessons worldwide, he encourages the faithful to enter into the mystery of faith and personally experience God, prioritizing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As he asks “whether we will let the Gospel take effect once again,” Oster stands in the tradition of those reformers who want to draw from the source, who want to set into motion a reform that comes from the Faith itself, contrary to all attempts to adapt and water down the Gospel.

5 ½ x 8 ½ 240 pages $25.00 November Paper 979-8-89372-124-9

Interpreting the Signs of the Times

Church and Secularity in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI

Edited by Pietro Luca Azzaro

and Stephen M. Hildebrand

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

A collection of essays capturing the depth and significance of Pope Benedict XVI’s vision

Interpreting the Signs of the Times is a collection of essays inspired by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI’s theology of the Church. The essays, delivered at the Conference of the Pope’s Vatican Foundation held at Franciscan University of Steubenville, capture the depth and significance of his grand vision, and apply it to the significant issues facing the Church today. The volume contains also the letter that Pope Benedict wrote on the occasion of the conference, among his last written words before his death on December 31, 2022.

CONTRIBUTORS

Sameer Advani, LC, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome

Pietro Luca Azarro, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

Mariano P. Barbato, Andrassy University Budapest

Achim Buckenmaier, independent scholar

Peter Casarella, Duke Divinity School

Emery A. de Gaál, University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary Luis Granados, DCJM, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Kurt Cardinal Koch, The Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity ‘

Uwe Michael Lang, CongOrat, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

Philip Larrey, Boston College

Paul McPartlan, The Catholic University of America

Stephan Oster, SDB, Bishop of Passau

Aaron Pidel, SJ, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome

Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Deborah Savage, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Christian Schaller, Ludwig Maximilian University

Edmund Waldstein, OCist, Stift Heiligenkreuz, Austria

Michael Maria Waldstein, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Christian D. Washburn, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity

Katharina Westerhorstmann, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Petroc Willey, Franciscan University of Steubenville

William M. Wright IV, Duquesne University

Pietro Luca Azzaro is a professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy; the executive director of the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation; and the editor and translator of the Italian edition of the Collected Works of Joseph Ratzinger/ Benedict XVI Stephen M. Hildebrand is a professor of theology and vice president for academic affairs at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. is a retired professor of classics, Franciscan University of Steubenville.

The Catholic Holy Sites of the Mohawk Valley

The

True Locations of the Deaths of the Jesuit Martyrs and of the Birth and Upbringing of St. Catherine Tekakwitha

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

True stories of births and deaths of martyrs

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 beliefs are mistaken. The arguments for Auriesville were hastily formulated on scanty evidence in the 1880s. In fact, strong evidence based on twentieth-century archeology points to another village, located about seven miles up the Mohawk River from Auriesville, as the site of the martyrdoms. This village is known to archeologists as the Bauder Site, and this book presents the evidence for the authenticity of the Bauder Site as the location of the martyr’s deaths. Moreover, the dates of occupation assigned to the various castles of the area by archeology show that St. Catherine could not have been born and partly raised at Auriesville. She was born and raised near the Bauder Site and across the Mohawk River a few miles upriver from Fonda, New York. The book concludes that these new locations should not jeopardize the status of the Auriesville Shrine for the Martyrs and the Fonda Shrine for St. Catherine (Kateri). Rather, if the shrines are proactive, they will be able to stay at the heart of Catholic pilgrimage in the Mohawk Valley.

The Mystery of the Atonement

Edited by Margaret M. Turek

ACADEMIC PRESS

A collection of essays on the mystery of the atonement from a range of scholars HUMANUM

This engaging volume gathers eighteen essays on the mystery of the atonement. It includes the work of biblical scholars, dogmatic theologians, and spiritual formators who, in drawing from the wide stream of the Tradition, show that new insights can be drawn from and new connections can be discovered in the atonement. In style and tone, the essays range from the precision of professional theologians, to the pastoral concerns of priests, to the broad appeal of spiritual reflections that illumine the way of sanctity in following Christ crucified. The volume invites readers to contemplate the mystery of the atonement with fresh perspectives that underscore its lasting relevance.

CONTRIBUTORS

Gil Bailie, Cornerstone Forum

Jonathan Bieler, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC

Martin Bieler, Zürcher Landeskirche

Rachel M. Coleman, Assumption University

Matthew Dal Santo, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Emery A. de Gaál, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, IL

Daniel A. Drain, St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. Rochester, NY

Vivian Dudro, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, CA

Nina S. Heereman, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University

Robert P. Imbelli, Boston College

Lisa Lickona, St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, Rochester, NY

Anthony Lilles, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Antonio López, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Washington, DC

John Nepil, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, CO

William M. Schmitt, Trivium School, Lancaster, MA

Mark Shiffman, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Margaret M. Turek, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Margaret M. Turek is department chair and professor of dogmatic theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, California.

RECENT TITLES FROM HUMANUM ACADEMIC PRESS

Paul-André Dubois is a professor of history at the University of Laval in Canada. Robert Mokry, OFM is a Franciscan in the Province of Canada.

Franciscans in Canada

Historical Essays

Edited by Paul-André Dubois and Robert Mokry, OFM

Translated by Robert Mokry, OFM

Provides a vibrant picture of Franciscan contributions to Canadian life and culture ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY

The Franciscan presence in Canada spans close to 400 years. This volume presents six previously published essays that permit a better understanding of the why, where, and how the Franciscan Order came to be present: first, in New France, or the regions of eastern Canada, as Recollects; and then, in the last century, as the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) both in eastern and western Canada. Five of the essays, first published in French, have been translated into English to make the Franciscan story more accessible to English speaking readers.

The essays come from two major books. First, Les Récollets en Nouvelle-France: Traces et Mémoir, (2018) a compilation of scholarly works edited by Paul-André Dubois which treats the presence of the early friars – predominantly Recollects--in various locations of eastern Canada. Included are essays by noted scholars Bernard Dompnier, Paul-André Dubois, Rénald Lessard, and A.J.B. Johnston (the sole essay in English).

Second, Jean Hamelin’s Les Franciscains au Canada, published as a centenary project in 1990, contains an important historical study by Hamelin (included in the collection) of the reestablishment of the Franciscans, that is the Order of Friars Minor (into which the Recollects were incorporated at the Leonine Union of 1897) in Canada. The essay recounts how despite linguistic, cultural, and geographic differences, the Order took root in western Canada thanks to the many friars who came to anglophone regions from predominantly francophone eastern Canada. An essay by Noël Bélanger on Franciscans and education rounds out the collection.

These newly translated essays provide a vibrant picture of Franciscan contributions to Canadian life and culture, both civil and eccesial.

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Contemporary Bioethics

Catholic Wisdom for a Confused Culture

Edited by Marilyn E. Coors

NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER

Nine interdisciplinary authors speak to contemporary issues from informed and reasoned positions grounded in the light of truth

In this apostolic age, when Christians’ moral beliefs are opposed to those of the dominant culture, we must be prepared to present a countercultural, Christian vision in science, health care, politics, and everyday life. In few places is this clearer than in bioethics, the conscience of our technological civilization. Unfortunately, most lay faithful feel illequipped to witness to the ethical teachings of Christ in the world as it is, and new depths of knowledge, grace, and courage will be required of them.

In Contemporary Bioethics, nine interdisciplinary authors from medicine, law, theology, and philosophy empower readers to speak to contemporary issues from informed and reasoned positions grounded in the light of truth, including

—How historical intellectual dynamics led to contemporary cultural perspectives that reject the complementarity of men and women and deny the unitive and procreative nature of marriage.

—How redefining one’s own existence by disassociating meanings from words such as existence, good and evil, and tolerance prevents societal improvement.

—How free will, moral capacity, and natural law can help society discern a path toward the use of artificial intelligence that contributes to human development and overcomes serious harms of manipulating people and the environment for profit.

—How Catholic social teaching is not politics or activism but an interior transformation of every person to live with love among others and to work for the well-being of every other person.

Using these insights as a roadmap, readers with an interest in the pressing issues presented here can better witness to the moral and ethical teachings of Christ and the Church in the world through personal conversations, community involvement, and civil engagement.

CONTRIBUTORS

E. Christian Brugger, independent scholar

Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York

Edward J. Furton, National Catholic Bioethics Center

Elena Kraus, MD, Mercy Clinic, St. Louis

Joseph Meaney, National Catholic Bioethics Center

The Honorable Paul J. Ray, The Heritage Foundation

Christopher M. Reilly, Pontifex University

Rev. Columba Thomas, OP, Georgetown University

Marilyn E. Coors is an associate professor emerita of bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

RECENT TITLES FROM NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER

Michael A. Dauphinais is the Fr. Matthew L. Lamb Professor of Catholic Theology and Chair of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University. Andrew Hofer, OP, is professor and editor-in-chief of The Thomist at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC. Roger W. Nutt is professor of theology, provost, and editor-in-chief of Sapientia Press at Ave Maria University.

CONTRIBUTORS

Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist

Edited by Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, OP, and Roger W. Nutt

SAPIENTIA PRESS AT AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY

A collection of original contributions on Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist

St. Thomas Aquinas’s theology has served as a touchstone for the Church’s magisterial teaching on the Eucharist over the centuries, and the Church gives him an unparalleled position in eucharistic theology and worship. His work appears in the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours and Mass Sequence on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, and we sing his eucharistic hymns at many other times of celebration and adoration. In St. Thomas, we find the finest expressions of truth, beauty, and love to move our hearts for Christ’s presence in the Eucharist.

The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Dominican House of Studies co-sponsored an international conference on

“Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival” in 2024 during the US Eucharistic Revival and the 750th anniversary year of St. Thomas Aquinas’s passing from this earth. This conference volume offers original contributions on Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist with focus on Sacred Scripture, sacramental signification, Transubstantiation, sacrifice, and much more.

Michael Patrick Barber, Augustine Institute

Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP, University of Fribourg

Romanus Cessario, OP, Ave Maria University

Michael A. Dauphinais, Ave Maria University

Franklin T. Harkins, Boston College

Andrew Hofer, OP, Dominican House of Studies

Dominic Legge, OP, Dominican House of Studies

Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary

Reginald M. Lynch, OP, Dominican House of Studies

Guy Mansini, OSB, Ave Maria University

Roger W. Nutt, Ave Maria University

Innocent Smith, OP, Dominican House of Studies

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Lo primero es el Amor

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Paul in the Summa Theologiae

Matthew Levering

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Matthew Levering is the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary.

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A Gift of Presence

The Theology and

Poetry

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Jan-Heiner Tück

Foreword by Bruce D. Marshall

Translated by Scott G. Hefelfinger

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Jan-Heiner Tück is professor of dogmatic theology and vice dean of the Catholic Theology Faculty at the University of Vienna. Scott G. Hefelfinger is associate professor of theology at the Augustine Institute, Greenwood Village, CO. Bruce D. Marshall is professor of theology at Southern Methodist University.

“A Gift of Presence is a remarkable achievement. It plays up the strengths of Thomas's Eucharistic theology by giving a thorough interpretation of the systematic writings in the Summa and a sensitive and beautiful reading of the Eucharistic hymns. The third part is especially stimulating as a fresh reformulation of Eucharistic change and presence that is both faithful to Thomas's theology and full of insights for Eucharistic faith and practice in our times. The excellent translation makes this rich book now available for English readers. That is something to be grateful for.” - New Blackfriars

The Young Adult Playbook Living Like It Matters

Anna B. Moreland and Thomas W. Smith

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“Growing up has never felt more fraught. Options seem endless but each choice carries weight; no one dares give advice and role models are thin on the ground. Luckily, Anna Moreland and Thomas W. Smith are willing to step into the breach -- The Young Adult Playbook is warm and wise; its advice is straightforward and actionable. This is the book I wish I'd read before graduation.” - Christine Emba, author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation and columnist at The Atlantic

Contemplation and the Cross

A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life

Thomas Joseph White, OP

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“Thomas Joseph White contributes to Thomistic spirituality by drawing to the foreground, as a topic of central importance for the right understanding of beatitude, grace, virtue, etc. the role of the Incarnation and the Cross, partaken in through reference to the Cross…I wish that more works of this sort existed in print for Roman Catholics.” - Matthew K. Minerd, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Pittsburgh, PA

Anthony of Padua Franciscan, Preacher, Teacher, Saint

Valentin Strappazzon

Translated by Michael F. Cusato

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“Valentin Strappazzon’s biography of Saint Anthony of Padua is now available in an admirable English translation by Michael F. Cusato, OFM, who examines four aspects of the saint’s vocation: his historical life and missionary orientation, his inner spiritual life, his itinerant preaching and its reception and the reasons for the popular devotion which developed immediately after his death in 1231. This perceptive book follows Saint Anthony’s evolving vocation in the 1220s and then lays out the general contours of the themes of his preaching and theological vision through a selective sampling of his literary output.” - Michael J. P. Robson, Cambridge University

The Book of Before & After

Lord, I Love You! Homilies through the Liturgical Year

Volume 1: Lent, Easter, and Solemnities of the Lord

Pope Benedict XVI

Edited by Pietro Rossotti, FSCB

Foreword by Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, OFM, Cap.

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The Liturgy of the Hours of the Church of the East

Translated by Andrew Younan

EASTERN

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“Fr Younan has now provided a wonderfully rich resource, together with an excellent Introduction. Besides the Weekday Prayers - both in the traditional and in an updated form for practical modern usage – he has also translated the whole Syriac Psalter, as well as a considerable number of further liturgical texts for different occasions.” - Sebastian Brock, Oxford University

Creation through Evolution

New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology

Edited by Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austracio, OP

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“The unique contribution of this volume derives from its collaborative nature and the consequent depth of penetration that this afforded the contributors in probing their respective subjects. Bringing together an impressive array of scholars who are trained in Thomism and practice across many disciplines, this book covers a wider scope of issues and more expertly than any single scholar could achieve independently.” - Matthew Ramage, author of From the Dust of the Earth: Benedict XVI, the Bible, and the Theory of Evolution (CUA Press)

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Natural Law

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Steven J. Jensen

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Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Graham McAleer

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“Tolkien, Philosopher of War offers an unusual and extremely thought-provoking assessment of Tolkien’s work, developing links between his views of aesthetics, theology, history, philosophy, and strategy.” - Religion & Liberty Online

Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy Defending Church Unity

Andrew Chronister

PATRISTIC THEOLOGY

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“In addition to offering a detailed history and chronology of the events, this study both opens a new and fruitful perspective on the values being defended, and provides a positive valuation of Augustine’s final decade of work.” - J. Patout Burns, University of Notre Dame

The Mortara Case and Thomas Aquinas’s Defense of Parental Authority

Matthew Tapie

JUDAISM AND CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

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The Fittingness of the Incarnation Essays in Analytic Thomistic Philosophy and Theology

David Braine

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- Patrick Toner, Wake Forest University

Theology as an Ecclesial Discipline Ressourcement and Dialogue

J. Augustine DiNoia

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THOMISTIC RESSOURCEMENT SERIES

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“In this magnificent collection of essays, Archbishop Di Noia shows us how to do theology in medio Ecclesiae. This volume exemplifies theology as an ecclesial discipline from one of the most faith-filled, distinguished, and kind Thomistic theologians of the past fifty years.” - Andrew Hofer, OP, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC

Why Read Pavel Florenksy?

John P. Burgess

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Proper of Time Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter Volume 1

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CANTATE DOMINO

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The Family as Basic Social Unit Living Out Catholic Social Teaching

Kevin Schemenauer

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Meditation as Spiritual Therapy

Bernard of Clairvaux’s De Consideratione

Matthew R. McWhorter

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John Chrysostom, Theologian of the Eucharist

Kenneth J. Howell

PATRISTIC THEOLOGY

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Jansenism

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Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution

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Helen M. Alvaré

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The 2020 Carmelite Lecture at The Catholic University of America

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Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States

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John M. Travaline

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A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics

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William Langland

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An Introduction to Philosophy in the Catholic Tradition

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Development of Dogma

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Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization

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