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• On the Trinity by Saint Augustine
  • 5/5 Stars
• On Christian Doctrine by Saint Augustine
  • 5/5 Stars

  An introduction to Biblical interpretation and explanation.

• The Confessions by Saint Augustine
  • 5/5 Stars
• Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by English Dominican Province
  • 5/5 Stars
• The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, translated by John Saward
  • 5/5 Stars

  Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the "great prayer of the Church" will help readers rediscover the Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as…

• On Free Choice of the Will by Saint Augustine, translated by Anna S. Benjamin and L. H. Hackstaff
  • 4/5 Stars
• Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson by Bradley J. Birzer
  • 0/5 Stars

  English historian and Christian Humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the Catholic Right of the 20th century. Poet…

• The Letter on Apologetics and History and Dogma by Maurice Blondel, translated by Alexander Dru and Illtyd Trethowan
  • 0/5 Stars

  The work of French philosopher Maurice Blondel lies behind most of the controversies in twentieth-century French Catholic thought, and bore its fruit in the Second Vatican Council. Recognized in Europe as one of the outstanding figures in the Catholic revival…

• Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race by Romano Guardini
  • 0/5 Stars

  This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges to humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by machines. With…

• Essays in Theology of Culture by Robert W. Jenson
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  Gilbert Meilaender says: "Here is evidence that serious theology is neither an esoteric nor a purely private undertaking. In learned, provocative, and innovative theological explorations of politics, education, and the arts, Robert Jenson discusses and exemplifies the calling of Christians…

• Nature's End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics by Richard Sherlock
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  The Western moral tradition has been profoundly influenced by attempts to ground moral convictions in an analysis of human nature, whether conceived in rational, emotional, or biological terms. This idea that nature is the ultimate standard of our actions is…