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This is Book 3, Letters and Sermons. It is hard to know how to characterize Bernard of Clairvaux. On the one hand, he is called the “honey-tongued doctor” for his eloquent writings on the love of God and Humility. Then again, he loved being close to the seat of power and was an adviser to five...

History defines Luther’s life as a leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany. In time Luther would be challenged by the likes of T. Cajetan, followed up later against J. Eck. The infamous date of 31 October, 1517, being the vigil of All Saints', Luther affixed to the...

"The Ante-Nicene Fathers" ranges from the Apostolic Fathers to various third and fourth century sources including the liturgies and ancient Syriac documents. It was intended to comprise translations into English of all the extant works of the Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held...

The Assembly of the General Council of the Vatican is the greatest and most pregnant event of the last three hundred years. It is naturally, therefore, filling men’s minds whether they will it or not. The Church of God is a perfect kingdom, not of the world, but in it. It is a kingdom of souls,...

“Christ in the Soul” is a form of expression, which is often employed to indicate the fact of the existence, or at least of the possibility of the existence, in the human soul, of pure, holy, Christ-like dispositions. It indicates something more than forgiveness, which is a work done for us, rather...

Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church excels at providing an impressive and instructive historical treatment of the Christian church. This is Volume Six covering from Boniface VIII, 1294 to the Protestant Reformation, 1517 This volumous work begins with the Early Church at its formative...

The sheer design and intention of the work has been to compose a comprehensive work, which should serve as a comprehensive mural of knowledge regarding the ancient world and their tendencies. This work addresses the variant tendencies of each period and its respective authors/ orators of thought. The...

The sheer design and intention of the work has been to compose a comprehensive work, which should serve as a comprehensive mural of knowledge regarding the ancient world and their tendencies. This work addresses the variant tendencies of each period and its respective authors/ orators of thought....

You are about to embark upon a simple and impartial account of Judaism on the one hand, and a perusal of the Gospels on the other, constituting one of the most convincing proofs of the Divine origin of the Christian religion, and of its organic connection with that of the Old Testament. Again, it is...

Within this third volume is the whole treatise, initially presented in two parts: “The Mystery of the True Vine” and “The Fruit of the Vine” From the early days of Christianity the Vine/ vineyard has been a cornerstone of the church as evidenced in the following: Of all the great individuals...

In summarizing the themes of this book: “The... Eastern Christian themes [exemplified by the writings of Pseudo-Macarius] can be seen in Upham’s Treatise on Divine Union. In this volume he analyzes carefully the origins, grounds and goals of the relationship between God and humans as well as the...

IN order to avoid a misunderstanding to which the very title of this work might lead, it cannot be too forcibly stated that the Mystical Life is not with any infallible certainty the outcome of our own personal effort, however rightly that effort may have been made. Let us suppose that a soul has...

We have grown indeed, but in worldly wisdom, and the unquestioning and undivided love we vowed to God when we were little has been scattered to the winds. We found it would cost us a great effort, and a life-long one, to love God as we should, to keep on loving Him as children do, so we compromised...

It is hard to know how to characterize Bernard of Clairvaux. On the one hand, he is called the “honey-tongued doctor” for his eloquent writings on the love of God. On the other hand, he rallied soldiers to kill Muslims during the Crusades. He wrote eloquently on humility; then again, he loved being...