Product Description: NY 1955 Sheed & Ward. Translated by Walter Mitchell. 8vo., 343pp., index, hardcover. VG, offsetting on two adjacent pages from small slip of newsprint used as bookmark, very light soiling on fore-edges, in Good DJ, light soiling, small chip and light wear on edges, rubbed...read more

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Discusses the role of prayer in the spiritual life of the Catholic Church

Product Description: This collection of the spiritual writings of St Gregory of Nyssa, selected and introduced by Jean Danielou, has long been recognized as an authoritative introduction to the 'father of mysticism,' who exploded classical antiquity's static understanding of perfection by showing the Christian life as one of never-ending growth, a true dynamic movement 'from glory to glory...read more

Product Description: "My plan in this book," writes Father Danielou, the eminent French theologian, "is not to record what I say of God, but what God has said of Himself… to place religions and philosophies, the Old Testament and the New, theology and mysticism, in their proper relationship with the knowledge of God...read more

Product Description: From St. Augustine to John Henry Newman, the greatest among the saints and men of God have lived on familiar terms with the angels; and the Church has always accorded them a very large place in her theology. Recent theologians have dwelt on dry questions about the nature of the angels, but the early Fathers of the Church, with the memory of Jesus fresh in their minds (and of the angels of whom He spoke often) were fascinated with the energetic action of the angels among men and the ways in which the angels have carried out that mission from the instant of Creation through the time of Jesus; and how they will continue their work even unto the end of time...read more