Catholic resources that are languishing in community pricing - did you miss them?

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,400
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Deacon Steve
    Deacon Steve Member Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭

    I had missed the New Commentary.  Thanks for posting this.

  • MikeG53
    MikeG53 Member Posts: 76 ✭✭

    Don't forget The Catholic Encyclopedia

    [:)]

  • Brandon Rappuhn
    Brandon Rappuhn Member Posts: 113 ✭✭

    Yes indeed! I am dying to have Kenrick and Ludwig Pastor in my library. But don't also forget the Neo-Scholastic Theology and Philosophy Collection (24 vols.) which is crucial for any student of Catholic theology at university (or wannabe students, like me).

    If you're interested in more Catholic writers, these two collections might be worth a glance (coincidentally, both were first Anglican):

    Select Works of Robert Hugh Benson (12 vols.)

    The Works of Basil William Maturin (5 vols.)

    I also want to point out one more thing that is Catholic: 

    The Glories of the Catholic Church (3 vols.)

    While there are better things out there that analyze and study the Catholic Church, John Gilmary Shea is one foremost American Catholic reference writers/historians of the late 1800s. It's kind of a strange book, though, in its pseudo-American patriotic interpretation of American Catholic history (a Catholic justification of manifest destiny?), but this is just a personal opinion of mine. Volume 2 contains a very interesting and readable Q&A-style catechism of doctrine and Catholic teaching and practices, but the collection also contains other writings, like Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Providentissimus Deus (and a couple more of his encyclicals) and a paraphrase of Alphonsus Ligouri's The Glories of Mary and some of Ligouri's other writings. It's a rather eclectic smattering of Catholic studies in doctrine and American Catholicism in general, but at least it's interesting--and it contains an interesting Catholic response to political and philosophical trends of the day, such as Know-Nothingism.

  • SineNomine
    SineNomine Member Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭

    But don't also forget the Neo-Scholastic Theology and Philosophy Collection (24 vols.) which is crucial for any student of Catholic theology at university (or wannabe students, like me).

    As a Thomist who wrote an undergraduate philosophy thesis relying heavily on neo-scholastic authors (and a present student of neo-scholastic theology), I unfortunately have to say that this collection is not crucial. Neo-scholasticism is; these authors...less so. With the exception of Cardinal Mercier, whose two listed volumes I own in hard copy, I do not recall ever either hearing or reading about any of the authors of those particular works outside of the context of Logos. Perhaps the other 22 volumes are very useful works - I certainly hope so - but it is very difficult to call them crucial.  This is why I haven't yet put a bid in for this work, even though I could afford it and have a particular interest in some of their contemporaries. Maybe if the projected price drops to $20 USD or my budget goes up.

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