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A Very Short Introduction
In this brief guide, the internationally acclaimed theologian and Dominican priest, Fr. Aidan Nichols seeks to explain the approach to Catholic theolo...
Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics
Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to d...
A Study in Schism
In the second edition of this major work, Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins, development and recent hist...
The Fulfillment of the Old Testament in Christ and the Church
"You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely like Jerusalem." — Song of Songs The highly regarded spiritual writer and theologian Fr. Aidan Nichols...
Her Marks, and Her Masters
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 t...
A Survey
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A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics
The publication of Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume The Glory of the Lord established von Balthasar as one of the greatest and most influential C...
A Guide Through Balthasar's Dramatics
Following his acclaimed Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics, Aidan Nichols summarizes and illuminates the five volume series Theo-Drama, which develo...
Authors and Themes in Orthodox Theology
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An Introduction To Its Sources, Principles, And History
This study is an introduction to Catholic theology designed both for the theological student and for the general reader willing to make a certain effo...
Church Fathers from Greek East and Latin West
"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 Rea...
A Theological History of Anglicanism
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...
An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
This important and illuminating book focuses on Ratzinger's status as one of the preeminent Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Aidan Nichols pr...
Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology, from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chro...
Reader of Hearts
Novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) left a mark on twentieth-century literature, not only in her homeland of Norway, but across the West. Her painter...
A Critical View of Its Contemporary Form
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has called for a "new" liturgical movement of the twenty first century to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses...
Portrait of a Culture
Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893-1966)
The author at the centre of this study, Russian priest-theologian Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, was perhaps the most influential thinker about the Ch...
Volume 1: Essays on Theology and Culture
Aidan Nichols opens his major two-colume study of theology and culture with a powerful statement of the 'intelligent conservatism' which he sees, not ...
A Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism
The resurgence of Catholic tradition is rekindling devotion, zeal and, we pray, sanctity. But do some place traditionalism before Mother Church hersel...
Essays on Theology and Culture
Modern Catholic Thought from Hermes to Benedict XVI
A Systematic Theology in Outline
Over the course of a distinguished theological career, Aidan Nichols has produced an array of masterful contributions to the fields of systematic theo...
A Primer in the Theology of Father Sergei Bulgakov
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 ...
The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue
Based on diaries and his published works, Nichols presents an account of Adrian Fortescue's developing personality with an interpretative overview of ...
A Guide through Balthasar's Theology beyond the Trilogy
Hans Urs von Balthasar is emerging as a colossus of twentieth-century theology. More and more of his works are being translated. But as yet he is main...
On Re-Energising The Church In Culture
Aidan Nichols shows how recovering the Church's traditional mission will re-energise its witness in such areas as philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, the ...
Maximus the Confessor in Modern Scholarship
Maximus the Confessor (580–662), giant among early Byzantine theologians, stands at the summit of the Greek patristic tradition. He is spokesman of ...
13. The Political Economy of Art and Other Critical Matters -- 14. University with a Difference: The Oxford Lectures -- 15. From Tuscany to the Somme ...
The Mariology of the Catholic Church
This study contributes to the revival of a more full-blooded Marian teaching and attempts to take the path set by ressourcement theology in recovering...
Essays on Liturgy and the Arts
This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural sp...
An Introduction to His Life, Work and Influence
Thomas Aquinas is one of the great figures in western thought, whose ideas continue to exert a powerful influence. Discovering Aquinas is a lively and...
Apostolic Priesthood from the New Testament to the Second Vatican Council
From the New Testament to Pope John Paul II
The "Catechism of the Catholic Church" on Worship, Ethics, Spirituality
A Concise Commentary on the Eight Key Texts of the Second Vatican Council
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 ...
A Theological Study of Paul Claudel
This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europ...