Winner of a 2017 Christianity Today Book Award ***** Some of the greatest painters, musicians, architects, writers, filmmakers, and poets have taken their inspiration from their faith and impacted millions of people with their stunning creations. Now readers can discover the stories behind seventy-five of these masterpieces and the artists who created them. From the art of the Roman catacombs to Rembrandt to Makoto Fujimura; from Gregorian Chant to Bach to U2; from John Bunyan and John Donne t...
The Commentary of John of Dara on the Eucharist (Moran Etho)
The Treatise of Dionysius bar Salibi Against the Jews (Syriac Studies Library, #23)
This volume contains the Syriac text of one of Dionysius bar Salibi's polemical writings, that against the Jews, based on a manuscript now located at the Harvard Semitic Museum. An English translation was promised by the editor, but never appeared.
Marcia Ford presents a zesty guide to the essential books, ideas, and spiritual insights from today and yesterday that she thinks all postmoderns and moderns should know about. She takes readers on a literary romp through two millennia of spiritual writings that will enhance and encourage personal transformation.
Kuriakose Valavanolickal presents here in two volumes the first English translation of the twenty-three Demonstrations by Aphrahat, the fourth century Persian Sage, who is one of the earliest authors of the Syriac tradition.
Drei wenig beachtete Cyprianische Schirften und die "Acta Pauli" (Analecta Gorgiana, #555)
by Adolf Harnack
The relations of three pseudepigrapha of Cyprian and the Acts of Paul; an elegant piece of reasoning.
Ambrose of Milan's on the Holy Spirit (Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics, #71)
by Andrew Selby
The work of the influential Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) has become a common point of reference in discussing the relationship of theology and the arts. However, the full significance of his theological aesthetics for both the emerging field of theology and the arts, as well as for interdisciplinary conversation with contemporary art and theory, remains to be unfolded. This book explores the ways in which Balthasar's theo-aesthetics, when taken together with his theologic...
Designed for students of all ages, Exploring Catholic Literature: A Companion and Resource Guide provides an engaging and succinct introduction to twelve recognized masterpieces of Catholic literature, from Augustine's 4th century conversion narrative, The Confessions, to the recent poetry of Denise Levertov collected in The Stream and the Sapphire. Each chapter contains a brief biography of the author, an extended critical essay highlighting the work's Catholic and literary aspects, suggestions...
Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
by Farrell O'Gorman
In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizens-or some representative American-from a larger world beyond. While earlier studies of Catholicism in the American literary imagination have tended to highlight t...
Paul Kruger discusses the influence of the "rain prayer" of Ephrem by tracing its use throughout several stages in the development of the Syriac liturgical traditions.