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 ......
No One Is More Human Than God: on the Trinitarian Presence of God in the World
This work explores a Christian understanding of God's presence in the world. As the Creator of all that exists, the Creator-Trinity is mysteriously present to all things, and truly but imperfectly knowable as such. In addition to this creative presence, however, there is also the manifestation of God's presence as a gift of grace. By supernatural ......
A Narrative of Travel, Residence, and Experience in the Roman States
Following the formation of the kingdom of Italy in 1860, the new Italian government, led by its King, Victor Emmanuel II, turned its attention to the city it intended to make its capital, the Eternal City, Caput Mundi, Rome. One major obstacle stood in their path, the Papal States, under the leadership of Pius IX and under the protection of ......
"What is God?" asked Thomas Aquinas as a child. Contemplation of the mystery of God, in the light of reason enlightened by faith, is the heart of the theological enterprise. It is based on the Revelation that God has made of himself in the history of salvation and, in order to foster the understanding of faith, it assumes the best of metaphysical ......
Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley
Rene Girard was one of the most influential interdisciplinary thinkers of the 20th century. His mimetic theory-which argues that human desire is fundamentally imitative and that rivalry and conflict arise from this imitation-cuts across philosophy, anthropology, history, literary criticism, theology, and more. To manage the destructive potential ......
Modern psychology has garnered an abundance of data, but how do the discrete studies of psychology fit together into a clear picture of the human person. Chesterton quips, "...what is pompously called induction is simply collecting more of the data. And Aristotle or Aquinas, or anybody in his five wits, would of course agree that the conclusion ......
Titus Brandsma Among the Carmelite Martyrs of World War II
Titus Brandsma is best known for courageously speaking out against the ideology of National Socialism and for defending the freedom of the Catholic press to refuse their propaganda. Indeed, it was his activities as a Catholic journalist and on behalf of Catholic journalism that placed him in the crosshairs of the Nazi authorities. But his ......
Christians express love of neighbor as one's self - agape - by physically caring for the imago Dei, the image of God each human being is. They especially do so by caring for the sick. Indeed, Jesus' early followers uniquely cared for victims of plague, in stark contrast to pagans. Thus, they followed Jesus' command to love both God and neighbor - ......
Primeras Cartas a La Corona Y Al Consejo Para La Reforma De Las Indias
Bartolome de las Casas began his transatlantic career in 1502. Experiences of conquest and penitential discipline led him to renounce his Indian slaves and holdings. He dedicated his life to reforming Spain's colonial project, eventually joining the Dominicans, and later serving as bishop. His works are foundational for our understanding of early ......
