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Aidan Nichols
This important and illuminating book focuses on Ratzinger's status as one of the preeminent Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Aidan Nichols provides a full-scale investigation of his theology as…
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This study is an introduction to Catholic theology designed both for the theological student and for the general reader willing to make a certain effort. After introducing the idea of…
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Presents a chronological account of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology in its development since the 1950s. This book offers reference to books and articles produced by Joseph Ratzinger between 1986/1987 and his…
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Investigates Balthasar’s early explorations of music and the other arts, before launching into a ramifying but controlled survey of his interpretations of major philosophers and literary figures in the European…
Why has the church become so marginalised in our culture?
Following his acclaimed Guide Through Balthasar’s Aesthetics, Aidan Nichols summarizes and illuminates the five volume series Theo-Drama, which develops the heart of Balthasar’s theological theory - his exploration of the…
Hans Urs von Balthasar is mainly known only through his great multi-volume trilogy Glory , Theo-Drama and Theo-Logic . This book explores Hans Urs von Balthasar’s later works, ranging from…
A clear summary and analysis of the history of the Church of England that also explains the context of the common issues currently under discussion by Anglicans and Catholics.
In this brief guide, an internationally acclaimed theologian and Dominican priest explains the approach to Catholic theology that he has worked out during his nearly forty years of publishing books…
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Students of Catholic theology are often presented with a choice between Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar as the best masters to follow. What starts as a genial rivalry…
The horror presented by the increasing institutionalisation of abortion in contemporary society poses some of the strongest moral and theological questions of our time. The innocent suffering of children killed…
The question of Faith and Reason is central to Catholic thought today. Aidan Nichols charts the development of the topic through key figures who set in every essential the terms…
John Ruskin had an extraordinary ability to bring together aesthetics, religion, ecology, and social issues in a unitary, overarching vision, all expressed in a prose style worthy of comparison with…
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This Homiliary provides a comprehensive guide to doctrinally based preaching for the entire Church year, presented in the Dominican tradition: a preaching of Scripture which takes doctrine as guide to…
Thomas Aquinas is one of the great figures in western thought, whose ideas continue to excert a powerful influence on theologians, contemporary writers and thinkers of very different backgrounds and…
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A lively debate continues in the Roman Catholic Church about the character of the teaching provided by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Did it represent a decisive rupture with previous…
Following his acclaimedThe Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Aesthetics, No Bloodless Myth by Aidan Nichols summarizes and illuminates the five-volume series Theo-Drama, which develops the heart of…
The Church is a mystery. Believers who want to enter more deeply into that mystery will reflect on the Church’s basic characteristics, the marks of the Church: what it means…
When in 1993 Aidan Nichols revived the long-dormant idea of an Anglican Uniate Church, united with the See of Peter but not absorbed, the reaction of many was incredulity. The…
Broadens John Henry Newman’s argument for the existence of God to include more experiential materials reflecting two millennia of Christian philosophy. Nichols provides a beneficial corrective to a common contemporary…
The brilliance of Chesterton explored and how Christians can rediscover their faith through his writings. Chesterton, one of the great converts of the twentieth century, draws us directly into an…
Sergei Bulgakov, born in Russia in 1871, was one of the principal Eastern theologians of the twentieth century. At the age of thirty he was appointed professor of political economy…
Aidan Nichols has been contributing to theological literature since the beginning of the 1980s.
Now in his seventy-fifth year, he looks back not only at his writings but at the…
This accessible little book is a study of spiritual theology, and so a reflection on the spiritual life as found in Christianity. Christian spirituality embodies in personal living the biblical…
Mary continues to be a source of theological interest and concern for Catholics and Protestants alike. Working through the biblical, patristic, and medieval sources, the author introduces readers to the…
The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the Church Russia has produced. In Aidan Nichols’s careful evaluation…
"I . . . find these Fathers to be, in words of William Butler Yeats, 'singing-masters of my soul'. Anyone who prays through the year the Office of Readings in…
About the Contributor(s): Aidan Nichols, OP, is a member of the Dominican community at Blackfriers, Cambridge, and the author of numerous books on Eastern and Western theology and Church history.
The Art of God Incarnate proposes that visual art is a good way to think of how the incarnation–the central truth-claim of Christianity–can be said to reveal the divine. In…
A general survey of all the major studies of the thought and theology of Maximus, increasingly regarded as representing the summit of the Greek patristic tradition.
This fascinating study of parallel movements sheds new light on spiritual art. More importantly, it asks us to look again at that art and its role in divine revelation, to…
In the second edition of this major work, Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins, development and recent history-now updated-of the relations between Rome and all…
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An exemplary summary of the state of Catholic theology and what appears to be its future.
This historical treatment of Catholic theology looks not to the content of that theology…
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Explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of ‘sacral aesthetics’ - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant…
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An overview of the life and work of the Russian theologian Vladimir Lossky, whose profound rooting in the Orthodox tradition, gave him the conviction that the most important theology is…
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A comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar, de Lubac and Eliot)…
This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar, de…
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The Year of Consecrated Life has given all Catholics the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on those living out the witness of consecration in the Church-but what is the Religious…
