A complete summary of the Catholic Church's teaching and values - its doctrines, history, biblical origins, theological developments and recent changes. This edition features new material, extensive revisions and updated charts and diagrams.
Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas (Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology)
by Benjamin R DeSpain
Thinking Theologically traces Aquinas’s subtle grammatical and thematic engagements with the doctrine of the divine ideas throughout the Summa Theologiae. This study offers new insights into the contributions of Aquinas’s doctrine to debates about eschatology, christology, providence, natural law, virtue, and creation’s participation in the trinitarian life of God. It argues that Aquinas adapts the doctrine to support his pedagogical goal of guiding readers from the confession of faith to the wi...
Von Zukunftsbildern Und Reformplanen (Kirche in Zeiten Der Veranderung, #1)
Power and Authority in the Catholic Church
by Charles W. Dahm and R. Ghezardi
When Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and the Pope had launched a commission two years earlier to investigate Molina's writings. Molina was eventually vindicated, though the decision came seven years after his death. In the centuries that followed Molina was relegated to relatively minor...
Supply and Demand of Teachers for Catholic Maintained Schools, 1965
A Treasury of Catholic Digest
As the Church enters its third millennium, it must take stock of its identity and mission. These essays in The Gift of the Church address the fundamental issues confronting the Church in its immediate future. Their authors represent the most prominent ecclesiologists of our time. Written in honor of Patrick Granfield, OSB, these essays form a textbook for classes in ecclesiology. They also are a useful tool for those engaged in various ministries in the Church to update themselves on the theolo...