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03/07/2021

Introducing our next blog series, on Emile Mersch's "The Whole Christ."

We begin a new series on Emile Mersch's The Whole Christ by guest contributor Andrew Kuiper. This is the first of five posts. Along with Matthias Scheeben, Emile Mersch, S.J. (1890-1940) is another theologian whose neglect seems to be due to the misfortune of his having lived and worked within the i...

30/04/2021

We are pleased to announce the return of our theological blog, with another post by the redoubtable Andrew Kuiper, completing his series on Scheeben's "Mariology."

We conclude our series on Matthias Scheeben's Mariology by guest contributor Andrew Kuiper. This is the fourth of four posts. Scheeben concludes his study of Mary with her concrete role in Christ’s work of redemption. Wisely, Scheeben has waited to treat this admittedly thorny question only after ...

24/02/2019

The Septuagint with Apocrypha in English: The Greek Old Testament in English

Finally released! Our revised English version of the Septuagint, the Old Testament of the Early Church.

Now in a revised and corrected Second Edition. The Septuagint (LXX), the ancient Greek translation of Jewish sacred writings (i.e. the Old Testament), is of great importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. Translated from Hebrew and other originals in the two centuries before Jes...

09/10/2018

How a dystopian novel from 1907 can challenge and inspire Catholics in 2018 – Catholic World Report

Just reviewed in Catholic World Report: Our edition of "Lord of the World," Benson's dystopian apocalypse.

How a dystopian novel from 1907 can challenge and inspire Catholics in 2018In Robert Hugh Benson’s fiction, the struggle has ended with the end of days. But for us, and for each generation of Christians, the struggle begins anew. October 5, 2018 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin Books, Features 5 Print “...

04/09/2018

Scheeben and Theological Method

Our latest blog post.

We continue our series on Matthias Scheeben's Mariology by guest contributor Andrew Kuiper. This is the third of four posts. Scheeben’s time at Rome’s Collegium Germanicum during the 1850s gave him a unique theological preparation. Not only did he move in the same circles as Kleutgen, Perrone, a...

18/08/2018

Mary and the Old Testament's Wisdom in Matthias Scheeben's "Mariology"

Our blog series continues with Scheeben's discussion of Mary in relation to the Old Testament figure of Lady Wisdom.

We continue our series on Matthias Scheeben's Mariology by guest contributor Andrew Kuiper. This is the second of four posts. Scheeben treats at length the subject of Mary in the Old Testament. Guided by the Church’s liturgy and exegetical tradition, he looks to the Sapiential books, focusing prim...

12/08/2018

Mariology and Matthias Scheeben

Ex Fontibus begins a new blog series with a reflection on "Mariology" by Matthias Scheeben.

In anticipation of the feast of the Assumption, we begin today a new series by guest contributor Andrew Kuiper, who will be writing theological reflections on various of our books. His first selection is Matthias Scheeben's Mariology. Along with John Henry Newman and Adam Möhler, Matthias Scheeben ...

24/07/2018

The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition

NEW RELEASE: Emile Mersch's classic on divinization in Christ's mystical Body.

Emile Mersch's masterful book introduces the reader to the doctrine of the mystical body, that is, the Christian's membership in Christ by which the Christian comes to share now in Christ's own heavenly life. Through the Holy Spirit's life of grace, the Christian is deified, made a participant in...

30/06/2018

A New Edition of Card. Danielou’s “From Shadows to Reality”

Thanks to the blog "New Liturgical Movement" for mentioning our book!

NLM readers may be interested to hear of this reprint of a classic long out of print. From the first centuries of its existence, the Ch...

31/05/2018

From Shadows to Reality: Studies in the Biblical Typology of the Fathers

We are pleased to announce the long awaited republication of Jean Danielou's excellent book on biblical typology and the pattern of salvation history according to the early Church fathers.

From the first centuries of its existence, the Church has interpreted the historical events recounted in the Old Testament as being "types" or "figures" of the events of the New Testament and of the sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ. Jean Cardinal Danielou, one of the foremost Catholic schola...

04/05/2018

John B. Tabb

Tides: Like inland streams, O Sea, / Through joy and pain / All nature dreams of thee; / Nor more appears / Thy life in mist or rain / Than in our tears.

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24/04/2018

John B. Tabb

In the Nest: O world beneath the mother's wing, / Secure from harm, / The heart so near the sheltered thing / To keep it warm! // No longer needed now the light / Of heaven above— / The very darkness breathes a plight / Of deeper love.

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06/03/2018

John B. Tabb

Influences: Each separate life is fed / From many a fountain-head; / Tides that we never know / Into our being flow, / And rays of the remotest star / Converge to make us what we are.

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15/02/2018

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Whisper: Close cleaving unto Silence, into sound / She ventures as a timorous child from land, / Still glancing, at each wary step, around, / Lest suddenly she lose her sister's hand.

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09/02/2018

John B. Tabb

Brink-Song: A note so near the dawn / Too timid was to stay / Till shadows all were gone, / But, dreamlike, sped away / While paled the hesitating sky / For Day to bloom or Night to die.

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18/01/2018

From our book "Long to Love and Memory" by J. B. Tabb.

Fountain-Heads: Alike from depths of joy and sorrow start / The rain-drops of the heart: / Alike from sweet and briny waves arise / The tear-drops of the skies. / And back to earth salt tears and freshening rain / Alike must flow again.

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08/01/2018

A selection from the ever eloquent John B. Tabb, collected in our volume "Long to Love and Memory"

December: Dull sky above, dead leaves below; / And hungry winds that whining go. / Like faithful hounds upon the track / Of one beloved that comes not back.



This poem was written in December 1890 and published in Father Tabb's book "Poems" in 1894.

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29/11/2017

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08/09/2017

Mary

More reviews of our latest release, "Long to Love and Memory: Poetry by John B. Tabb".

Thank you for the review copy. I gave Long to Love and Memory by John B. Tabb a 5-star on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/review/R37API3RO8Z7T7/.

19/03/2017

The Durtal Trilogy (En Route, The Cathedral, The Oblate)

For Lent, a spiritual journey in novel form.

Joris-Karl Huysmans’s trilogy of novels charting the religious and life journey of Monsieur Durtal, who once investigated a satanic order in decadent late nineteenth century Paris (Lá-bas, “The Depths” or “The Damned”), and now, seeking a divine illuminatio...

23/02/2017

Jesus the Christ

NEW RELEASE! "Jesus the Christ" by Fr. Thomas Weinandy

Father Thomas G. Weinandy—sometime Oxford tutor and later head of the Secretariat of Doctrine for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—opens the fascinating world of Christian theology to all readers. In clear language, he begins in Scripture to draw out the plan of salv...

08/12/2016

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17/11/2016

On Faith: A Commentary on St. Thomas' Theological Summa Ia IIae, qq. 62, 65, 68 and IIa IIae, qq.1-16 (The Theological Virtues) (Volume 1)

IN STOCK NOW: Garrigou-Lagrange's reflection on Faith, the theological virtue infused by the Holy Spirit by which one knows the God who has revealed Himself.

By this commentary, Garrigou-Lagrange wishes to elucidate Thomas Aquinas's teaching on the Theological Virtues--those powers of soul that, infused by the Holy Spirit, enable the soul to respond by knowledge and love to the loving embrace of God Himself. This volume treats especially of the virtue...

11/09/2016

She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America

An interesting look at Charlotte Bronte, brilliant author of Jane Eyre, one of our literary offerings.

“Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will,’’ at the Morgan Library & Museum, delves into the enchanted childhood of the author of “Jane Eyre.”

02/09/2016

Epiphany: A Theological Introduction to Catholicism

NEW RELEASE! Aidan Nichols O.P.'s theological introduction to Catholicism, "Epiphany."

Now in its second edition. Renowned theologian Aidan Nichols presents the Catholic faith as a unique source of illumination for the good, the true, and the beautiful. To his mind, that faith is destined to be, and humbly offered as, light for all peoples. For it was as “light” that ...

04/05/2016

The Iliad: The Verse Translation by Alexander Pope

On sale today! The Iliad and the Odyssey, translated by English poet Alexander Pope.

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Iliad: ISBN 9781480048348. Odyssey: ISBN 9781490516424 "Many consider [this translation] the greatest English Iliad, and one of the greatest translations of any work into English. It manages to convey not only the stateliness and grandeur of Homer’s lines, but their speed and wit and vivid...

21/04/2016

Anselm of Canterbury

NEW RELEASE! For the Feast of St. Anselm, his Cur Deus Homo, released on our website and on Amazon

A new book, just in time for the traditional Feast of St. Anselm of Canterbury: A small, affordable edition of Anselm's famous Cur Deus Homo, a meditation on th

07/03/2016

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises

NEW RELEASE! Anselm of Canterbury's complete treatises in English, including the famed Prosologion and Cur Deus Homo.

This is the only complete English edition of the treatises of Anselm of Canterbury, the monastic "father of Scholasticism." In Jasper Hopkins’ and Herbert Richardson’s philosophically sensitive translations, the volume offers to English readers not only Anselm’s treatises but...

09/02/2016

Basil the Great - Exegetic Homilies

NEW RELEASE! Basil the Great's homilies on the Creation and on the Psalms. A great work of early Christian biblical exegesis and a monument of patristic theology.

Basil the Great, of Caesarea, here offers homilies on the creation of the cosmos (the Hexameron, or the Six Days), God's providential ordering of the world, and