The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom by Fr. John Hardon,John A. Hardon

By Fr. John Hardon,John A. Hardon

The Treasury of Catholic knowledge is a Catholic library in miniature, a one-volume microcosm of what the Church's nice minds have notion and stated because the apostolic age.

Indeed, within the Treasury of Catholic knowledge, famous theologian Fr. John A. Hardon has compiled the works of thirty-three of the best Catholic thinkers and writers, representing each interval of the Church's passage via time, from the beginnings of Christianity to the current day. listed here are women and men, bishops and clergymen, spiritual and the laity "whose local skills have been increased through the supernatural gentle that God reserves when you are so much submissive to His will."

Included during this notable and engaging anthology are the works of the early saints, akin to Gregory, Basil, Augustine, John Chrysostom, Patrick, Bernard Francis, and Thomas Aquinas. right here, too, are the writings of the nice reformers Ignatius, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila; the mystic John of the go; the sensible knowledge of Francis de revenues, Louis de Montfort, and Peter Julian Eymard; and the modern day reflections of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Therese of Lisieux, G.K. Chesterton, and Fulton J. Sheen.

The Treasury of Catholic knowledge is a complete anthology of the exceptional Catholic literature from the 1st century to trendy occasions. Mystics and martyrs, philosophers and theologians, poets and prose writers are quoted at size and intensive. they're actually consultant of the spirit and substance of Catholicism in its paradox of extra special balance and flexibility over the centuries.

Fr. Hardon has chosen these writings that are consultant of the concept and philosophy of every contributor, and has rigorously selected excerpts which aren't continuously the main well-known. therefore, his quantity offers not just a clean number of the simplest of Catholic knowledge, but additionally a uniquely entire paintings which bargains enlightenment and religion for generations of readers.

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