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The End of the Modern World
Roman Guardini

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2001

This is a prophetic book for the times in which we live.

+ Penetrating look at the successor to the Modern World
+ And the Beginning of the Postmodern
+ Scorching Criticism
+ A book that will change how you look at the world
  
  











  



  
The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
Georges Bernanos

Da Capo Press, 2002

required reading for the religious

+ A materpiece depicting a life of suffering, infused with light , amidst gathering darkness
+ Hope, Always There is Hope!
+ A Form of Christian Ministry
+ A Communist reviews The Diary
  
  











  



  
Soulier De Satin (Folio Series: No.774)
Paul Claudel

Schoenhofs Foreign Books, 1963
  
  











  



  
On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom

Liguori Publications, 1997

Early Christian Thought

+ Wisdom for Life
+ A Gem from a Great Saint
+ On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom
+ Priceless Ancient Christian Wisdom
  
  











  



  
Prayer: The Mission of the Church (Ressourcement (Grand Rapids, Mich.).)
Jean Danielou

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996

Prayer: Our Living Fountain of Renewal

Prayer: the Mission of the Church was originally written as a series of talks for some days of reflection for laypeople. As such it is a splendid text for lay formation. Danielou initiates the reader into true prayer as the task of every Christian. From there, he takes the reader all the way to ...
  
  











  



  
World of Prayer
Adrienne Von Speyr

Ignatius Press, 1985

Prayer and the Trinity

Adrienne von Speyr, a Swiss mystic (1902-1967), begins her longest and deepest book on prayer, The World of Prayer [Die Welt des Gebetes], by anchoring the original source of prayer in the eternal dialogue exchange of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Her insight is an original and fruitful ...
  
  











  



  
Communio : International Catholic Review - English Edition

Communio

Theological Renewal Rooted in the Over 2000-Year Tradition

+ Don't Miss Out

Edited by Dr. David L. Schindler, Dean and Gagnon Professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in Washington, DC, the North American "Communio" is part of an international federation of (15) Communio magazines published in various languages around the world. In 1972, ...
  
  











  



  
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (Ressourcement (Grand Rapids, Mich.).)
Charles Peguy

Eerdmans Pub Co, 1996

The Secret of Hope

Supernatural hope is one thing that this world desperately needs. Few writers who can teach us true hope better than the French poet, Charles Peguy. In his dramatic poem, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope, Peguy has us listen in as Madame Gervaise, a 25-year-old Franciscan nun, teaches the ...
  
  











  



  
Order and History (Volume 4): The Ecumenic Age (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 17)
Eric Voegelin

University of Missouri Press, 2000

Order and History, a comprehensive study of the order of human existence in society from ancient to modern times, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age. In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Eric Voegelin breaks with the course he originally charted, in which man's existence in society and the corresponding symbolism of order were presented in ...
  
  











  



  
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
Michael Polanyi

University Of Chicago Press, 1974

Polanyi In Context

+ Superb (and it's not at all difficult to read or understand)
+ really good but difficult read
+ In response to "Good for it's time, but..."
  
  











  



  
Drama of Atheist Humanism
Henri de Lubac

Ignatius Press, 1995

Great

+ I like de Lubac
+ A brilliant analysis of key 19th century thinkers who paved the way for aggressive neo-atheism,
+ wonderful
  
  











  



  
Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Ignatius Press, 1996

You too are called to communion

+ Absolutely Amazing
+ A good introduction to communion ecclesiology
+ I can see why he is a Sheperd
+ Pleasantly surprised
  
  











  



  
An Essay On Development Of Christian Doctrine (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books, No 4)
John Henry Newman

University of Notre Dame Press, 1989

To this day, the definitive work on the subject.

+ If Only the Church . . . .
+ Theological Realism
+ An outstanding edition. . .
  
  











  



  
Iconostasis
Pavel Florenski

Oakwood Publications, 1996

Born in 1882, Fr Pavel Florensky was a brilliant philosopher, theologian, scientist, and art historian who, in 1911, became an Orthodox priest. By the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Fr Pavel had become a leading voice in Russia's great movement in religious philosophy, a movement whose roots lay in the rich ground of nineteenth-century Russian monasticism and whose branches included the ...
  
  











  



  
The Letter on Apologetics & History and Dogma (Resourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought)
Maurice Blondel

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995

'The Letter on Apologetics' is a key statement on the possibility and meaning of Christian philosophy. 'History and Dogma, ' written in response to the Modernist crisis, is an important contribution to the notion of tradition, seeing it neither in terms of historicism nor as something mechanical, but as a living synthesis.
  
  











  



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