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Books : Nonfiction : Foreign Language Nonfiction : Latin
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood.
Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains
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From one of the foremost Christian theologians and thinkers comes this treatise on how to live the Christian Life. Why does a Christian suffer? What answers does God and Jesus provide in the Bible to deal with the daily hardships of life? John Calvin delves into these questions and much more.
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The classic work of the Renaissance humanist satirizes the organized Christian Church of the sixteenth century.
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Heaven And Its Wonders And Hell From Things Heard And Seen was first published in English in 1892. It caontains accounts and stories from Heaven, about The World Of Spirits and Man's State After Death, and Hell. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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"This is a good translation of a very great book.
"St Athanasius stood contra mundum for the Trinitarian doctrine 'whole and undefiled,' when it looked as if all the civilized world was slipping back from Christianity into the religion of Arius, into one of those 'sensible' synthetic religions which are so strongly recommended today and which then, as now, included among their devotees many highly cultivated clergymen. The glory of St Athanasius is that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, like all others, have passed away.
"When I first opened De Incarnatione I soon discovered by a very simple test that I was reading a masterpiece, for only a mastermind could have written so deeply on such a subject with such classical simplicity"
- C. S. Lewis, from the Introduction
On the Incarnation is part of the POPULAR PATRISTIC SERIES.
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"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing is more profitable." On Loving God is first a touching description of God's love for us as unmistakenly demonstrated in the death of His Son. Second, it is a call for us to joyfully respond to God like the child who runs and embraces her father whose love is sure. As St. Bernard writes, "They love all the more because they know themselves to be loved so exceedingly."
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This 4-page Latin grammar guide is specially created for beginners to enhance their proficiency in Latin. Topics covered include: - Latin alphabet, numerals & ordinals - capitalization & case system - word order, nouns & pronouns - prepositions & ablative absolute - articles, adjectives & comparatives - superlatives & infinitive clause - adverbs, verbs & tenses - the Roman calendar - and much more...
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The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume served as a guide to Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola, and countless others. It describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation by a distinguished Harvard professor.
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Isaac Newton can be seen as a Renaissance colossus, a polymath straddling his age with one foot confidently planted in the Enlightenment and the other still mired in the Middle Ages. A firm believer in reason and the ability of human beings to understand how the universe worked ("the inward frame of bodies is not yet known to us," he writes in one place, with apparent confidence that eventually it would be), he also held some surprisingly reactionary ideas about God, and about how the truth of Holy Writ could be reconciled with Nature. A genius? Undoubtedly. The French philosophe Voltaire attended Newton’s funeral in 1727, later writing that "in a country where mortals are canonized, his discoveries might very well pass for miracles."It was in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society that Isaac Newton's earliest optical paper was published in 1672. The result of experiments arising from Newton’s attempt to solve the problem of chromatic aberration in telescopes (he had been grinding his own lenses for nearly a decade), he concluded that white light contained all colors and that different colors were refracted to different degrees. His effort yielded a valuable practical result still in use today: Having determined that a very long ratio of aperture to length would result in spyglass tubes of unwieldy size, he solved the problem by inventing the reflecting telescope, described in Book I of Opticks.
Commentary by Nicholas Humez, essay on the use of Latin in scholarly writing, searchable English and Latin live text.
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'Maria Boulding's version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and flowing style.'Rowan Williams
Archbishop of CanterburyThe Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
'So old and yet so new! This contemporary translation of Augustine's Confessions was like meeting an old friend and touching perennial truth, despite the passing years. Augustine was surely larger than life--and this translation matches it.'
Richard Rohr, o.f.m.
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood.
Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains
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Thorough mastery of forms, basic syntax, and simple vocabulary are primary objectives of Henle First Year Latin that enable students to handle simple readings and translations.Humanistic insight and linguistic training are the goals of the Henle Latin Series from Loyola Press, an integrated four-year Latin course. Time-tested and teacher endorsed, this comprehensive program is designed to lead the student systematcially through the fundamentals of the language itself and on to an appreciation of selected classic texts.
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First published 15 years ago, the DRM is newly available in a sixth edition with revised readings from the New American Bible and the re-inclusion of a 300-page devotional and prayer book.
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Written primarily in Greek, 1996 edition
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Since its first appearance in 1854 and through many revisions this dictionary has remained constant in its appeal to scholars.?This new and revised Latin Dictionary is among the best of its kind, being reliable, compact and adequate for the needs of all save the specialist. He has produced what is in effect a new book, typographically easy to consult and combining elegance with utility.? -The Times Literary Supplement
This edition
- Incorporates modern English idiom and current Latin spelling.
- Includes general classical information where appropriate.
- Shows long and short vowels where not immediately apparent.
- Indicates irregular plural forms.
- Cites and quotes ancient classical authors.
- Suggests paraphrases to express modern English in classical Latin form.