Aidan Nichols OP

Christ Our Joy

Theology

“The author has immersed himself in Pope Benedict's writings, many of which are occasional or fragmentary, and has made of them a coherent whole. What a surprise for many less perceptive critics to find that the motif of joy - of all things - could well be considered the master-theme of Joseph Ratzinger's work.”

Cur Deus Verba

Theology

“Philosophically sophisticated, deceptively simple in the way it is written, Cur Deus Verba is a beautifully clear account of the place of Scripture in the totality of Christian doctrine and life.”

Ephesians

Theology

“This new commentary series should meet a need that has long been pointed out: a guide to Scripture that will be both historically responsible and shaped by the mind of the Church’s tradition. It promises to be a milestone in the recovery of a distinctively Catholic approach to exegesis.”

Gift to the Church and World

Theology

“Joseph Ratzinger’s demanding and original Introduction to Christianity deserves a set of interlocutors able to rise to its own high level. It has found them in the studies collected here, ranging as they do from close-up snapshots of the work in its place and time to confrontations with a choice of theologians, culture-critics, filmmakers, and visual artists closer either to now or to home.”

Henri de Lubac and the Shaping of Modern Theology

Theology

“The reader can rest assured: both the editor's selection from de Lubac's texts and the overall perspective in which he presents them are admirably managed.”

Kenosis in Theosis

Theology

“This lucid and elegantly written study expounds a central and, for many, baffling, feature of Balthasar’s thought: exaltation (fulfillment) is only possible through humiliation (self-emptying). Sigurd Lefsrud does an admirable job in explaining the metaphysical, christological, and trinitarian background to this key Balthasarian conviction, and the ways in which it both does and does not correspond to the deification thinking of the Greek Fathers and their successors, the Byzantine theologians. By alerting the reader to parallels or divergences in Western Catholic and Lutheran (and other Protestant) approaches, his book should facilitate a wide-ranging ecumenical discussion of the nature of what Christians mean by ‘salvation.’”

Second Corinthians

Theology

“This new commentary series should meet a need that has long been pointed out: a guide to Scripture that will be both historically responsible and shaped by the mind of the Church’s tradition. It promises to be a milestone in the recovery of a distinctively Catholic approach to exegesis.”

Seeing Things as They Are

Philosophy

“Philosophically sophisticated but readily accessible, this highly original study shows what it was that made Chesterton so excellent a reader both of texts and of the world as a whole.”

The Artist and the Trinity

Work, Money & Leadership

“Dorothy Sayers was one of the bright stars of the Anglo-Catholic literary firmament in England. . . . Among Sayers's great gifts was the ability to show the light orthodox Christian doctrine sheds on both artistic 'making' and the everyday 'doing' for which we need ethics in a workaday world. Christine Fletcher's typically robust yet engaging study succeeds brilliantly in demonstrating for a new generation what Sayers was about.”

The Church

Theology

“We live in a time in Catholicism's history when the disorientation of the immediately post-Conciliar epoch has returned with a vengeance - despite all the contrary efforts of the theologians of 'ressourcement' and the representatives of the more recent Thomas revival. So this is an excellent moment in which to launch again these essays, which both draw on and embody Henri de Lubac's profound sense of the Church.”

The Dynamics of Liturgy

Preaching & Worship

“A faithful presentation of Benedict XVI's vision of a richer liturgical life for the People of God. Like his teacher Ratzinger, Father Twomey does not shy away from danger zones, including the controversial Amazon Synod of 2019 and the experiment of a duality of forms throughout the Latin church.”

The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church

Theology

“In this lucid account of the ‘holy signs’ of the New Covenant, Romanus Cessario seeks to show that sacramental theologians cannot be mere copies of social-anthropological students of myth and ritual. Only a robust metaphysic can bring out the way divine agency is set to work in the sacraments, the ‘separated instruments’ of the Word incarnate, for the restoration and perfection of the ‘image of God’ in human life. The author succeeds admirably in this attempt.”

The Wellspring of Worship

Preaching & Worship

“I have no doubt that this book will be recognized for centuries as a classic of Catholic liturgical spirituality and theology.”

Without Precedent

Theology

“This elegant survey will no doubt cause quite a stir, and rightly so.”

Word and Mystery in Origen

Theology

“The development of the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures has no more important master than Origen of Alexandria. Balthasar's study of Origen was meant to persuade the unconvinced—whether they were worried that Origen's cosmological speculations altogether vitiated his theology or that his allegorism led him into fantasy, not to say farce. It is now in English translation, preceded by a quite indispensable introduction and presented with immense scholarly care: a treasure for both patrologists and Balthasarians.”