Porcel. La doctrina monástica de San Gregorio Magno y la “Regula monachorum”. 1950.

La doctrina monástica de San Gregorio Magno y la “Regula monachorum” (1950)

Author: Porcel, Olegario Maria, 1914-
Subject: Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604; Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino; Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: [Madrid] : Instituto “Enrique Florez,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, [1950]
Language: Spanish
Call number: BX1076 .P67 1950
Digitizing sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Book contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Collection: Princeton; americana

Porcel. La doctrina monástica de San Gregorio Magno y la "Regula monachorum". 1950. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis

Grützmacher. Hieronymus : eine biographische Studie zur alten Kirchengeschichte. 1901.

Hieronymus : eine biographische Studie zur alten Kirchengeschichte (August 1901)

Author: Grützmacher, Georg, 1866-
Volumes: 3
Subject: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20; Church history
Publisher: Leipzig : Dieterich
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: German
Call number: AEQ-0286
Digitizing sponsor: msn
Book contributor: Robarts – University of Toronto
Collection: robarts; toronto

Grützmacher. Hieronymus : eine biographische Studie zur alten Kirchengeschichte. 1901. Volume 1. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis

Grützmacher. Hieronymus : eine biographische Studie zur alten Kirchengeschichte. 1901. Volume 2. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis

Grützmacher. Hieronymus : eine biographische Studie zur alten Kirchengeschichte. 1901. Volume 3. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis

Montalembert. Les moines d’Occident depuis Saint Benoít jusqu’a Saint Bernard/The monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard. 1878/1861.

A member of the French Academy from 9 January, 1851 Montalembert was both an orator and a historian. As early as 1835 he had planned to write a life of St. Bernard. He was led to publish in 1860, under the title “Les Moines d’Occident”, two volumes on the origin of monasticism; then followed three volumes on the monks in England; he died before he reached the period of St. Bernard. But he left among his papers, on the one hand, a manuscript entitled “Influence de l’ordre monastique sur la noblesse féodale et la société laïque jusqu’à la fin du XIe siàcle”, and on the other hand a work on Gregory VII and the conflict of investitures; and these two manuscripts, published in 1877 by his friend Foisset and his son-in-law the Vicomte de Meaux, made up the sixth and seventh volume of the “Moines d’Occident”.

Goyau, G. (1911). Comte de Montalembert. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved June 6, 2014 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10513b.htm


 

Les moines d’Occident depuis Saint Benoít jusqu’a Saint Bernard (1878)

Author: Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de, 1810-1870; Courson, Aurélien, comte de, 1811-1889
Volumes: 7
Subject: Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: Paris : Lecoffre
Year: 1878
Language: French
Call number: AAM6654
Digitizing sponsor: Brigham Young University
Book contributor: Harold B. Lee Library
Collection: americana

 


The monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard (1861)

Author: Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de, 1810-1870; Courson, Aurélien, comte de, 1811-1889, ed
Volumes: 7
Subject: Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Language: English
Call number: BX2461 .M76
Digitizing sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Book contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Collection: Princeton; americana

Description
Original French edition published Paris, 1860-77, v. 6-7 being edited by Aurelien de Courson
–v. 1. Dedication. Introduction. book I. The Roman empire after the peace of the church. book II. Monastic precursors in the East. book III. Monastic precursors in the West. 1861.
–v. 2. book iv. St. Benedict. book v. St. Gregory the Great. Monastic Italy and Spain in the sixth and seventh centuries. book VI. The monks under the first Merovingians. book VII. St. Columbanus. The Irish in Gaul and the colonies of Luxeuil. 1861.
–v. 3. book VIII. Christian origin of the British Isles. book IX. St. Columba, the apostle of Caledonia, 521-597. book X. St. Augustin of Canterbury and the Roman missionaries in England, 597-633. Appendix: Iona. Conclusions of the two papers of M. Varin. 1867.
–v. 4. book XI. The Celtic monks and the Anglo-Saxons. book XII. St. Wilfrid establishes Roman unity and the Benedictine order, 634-709. book XIII. Contemporaries and successors of St. Wilfrid, 650-735. Appendix: Lindisfarne. Peterborough. Hexham. 1867.
–v. 5. Conclusion of book XIII. book XIV. Social and political influence of the monks among the Anglo-Saxons. book XV. the Anglo-Saxon nuns. 1867.
–v.6. book XVIII. The church and the feudal system. The monastic orders and society. book XIX St. Gregory, monk and pope, Appendix. 1879.
–v.7. book XIX continued. book XX. The predecessors of Calixtus II. 1879

 

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Roisselet de Sauclières. Histoire chronologique et dogmatique des conciles de la chrétienté. 1844.

Histoire chronologique et dogmatique des conciles de la chrétienté : depuis le concile de Jérusalem… jusqu’au dernier concile tenu de nos jours. (1844)

Author: Roisselet de Sauclières ; fils
Subject: Conciles et synodes — Histoire ; Église — Histoire
Publisher: Paul Mellier
Year: 1844
Language: French
Collection: bibliothequesaintegenevieve, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

This work, divided in 6 volumes, is available through the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The 6 volumes are in B/W, and the size of each one surpasses the 150 Mb.

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Moroni. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. 1840.

DIZIONARIO

DI ERUDIZIONE

STORICO-ECCLESIASTICA

DA S. PIETRO SINO AI NOSTRI GIORNI

SPECIALMENTE INTORNO

AI PRINCIPALI SANTI, BEATI, MARTIRI, PADRI, AI SOMMI PONTEFICI, CARDINALI E PIÚ CELEBRO SCRITTORI ECCLESIASTICI, AI VARII GRADI DELLA GERARCHIA DELLA CHIESA CATTOLICA, ALLE CITTÁ PATRIARCALI, ARCIVESCOVILI E VESCOVILI, AGLI SCISMI, ALLE ERESIE, AI CONCILII, ALLE FESTE PIÚ SOLENNI, AI RITI, ALLE CEREMONIE SACRE, ALLE CAPPELLE PAPALI, CARDINALIZIE E PRELATIZIE, AGLI ORDINI RELIGIOSI, MILITARI, EQUESTRI ED OSPITALIERI, NON CHE ALLA CORTE ROMANA ED ALLA FAMIGLIA PONTIFICIA, EC. E. EC.

COMPILAZIONE

DI GAETANO MORONI ROMANO

PRIMO AIUTANTE DI CAMERA DI S. S.

IN VENEZIA
DALLA TIPOGRAFIA EMILIANA
MDCCCXL.

Non presunzione di farsi maestro al colto pubblico, o vanità di occupar posto fra gli autori, muovono GAETANO MORONI, primo aiutante di camera di Sua Santità, a dare in luce questa sua Compilazione. Sentimento di patria, e riverente affetto di suddito, gli fecero assai caro sino dalla età verde lo studio di quanto alla Chiesa cattolica romana si appartiene, ed ogni maniera di libro erudito intorno la capitale del cattolico mondo.

Per mettere a profitto letture di tanta importanza, il Moroni si fece annotatore, formando nel periodo di oltre a venti anni repertori, sunti, giornali storici, pratici, e di ceremonie. Quindi ei divideali in disparati articoli, che ammontarono a parecchie migliaia ; al qual lavoro aggiunse dappoi notizie ed aneddoti, che nella posizione sua potè in gran copia raccogliere, e da molte moderne opere ancora ritrarre. Fatto ciò, quanto per lui si è potuto accuratamente, si avvide che il lavoro avrebbe presentato le materie di un quadro di notizie ecclesiastiche, e della influenza che in diciotto secoli ebbe la Romana Chiesa sul resto del mondo. E però gli parve bene ridurre il tutto a foggia di Dizionario, col solo desiderio di rivolgere a comodo degli studiosi il frutto delle sue letture, ed osservazioni.

Con questo intendimento si determinò il Moroni di render pubblico per le stampe quanto avea per suo privato uso raccolto, intitolando la sua Compilazione: Dizionario di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiaslica, da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni, ec. ec. ec.

Se il dotto non avrà in mal grado di fermarvi l’ occhio sopra, non si dorrà per avventura di richiamare alla memoria cose a lui note. A chi poi fosse meno addentro nella erudizione, goderà l’ animo di trovar all’uopo raccolte in una sola opera, estesa per ordine alfabetico, ciò che in molte e molte dovrebbe investigare a grande fatica.

La serie cronologica dei Papi procederà in questo Dizionario con quella dal Burio adottata, e proseguita dal Novaes nelle Vite dei Pontefici. Si è conservata la denominazione latina delle diocesi abbreviata giusta l’uso di Roma. Oltracciò vuolsi avvertire, che per distinguere tra le città patriarcali, arcivescovili e vescovili, quelle che hanno anche di presente il rispettivo diocesano da quelle che hanno cessato di averlo, l’autore ha indicato le prime colle parole con residenza, alla qual distinzione tien dietro un’altra dei vescovati in partibus. Quanto è alle città che hanno relazione con la ecclesiastica storia, si riportano quelle dove si celebrarono concilii , e le capitali, non omesse in gran parte le famiglie donde venne alla Santa Sede qualche successore di s. Pietro. Nello scegliere le biografie degli scrittori ecclesiastici , il compilatore si è attenuto al catalogo del Berti, facendo menzione anche dei più distinti a lui posteriori.

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Documents. CSCO at Internet Archive.

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They belong to different series, and do not have -at the present- a serial order.

The PLGO Community has worked in the creation of a collection, where the available items will be added as they appear or be released.

Thanks to P. Stefan Zara, to Claudiu B. Razvan, and Philipos, who was working in the recollection of these items.

Francisco Arriaga.


Commentary. John Cooper. Noteworthy Lectures (11.28.11)

Today, Ryan Clevenger announced in his blog the Lectures of John Cooper “delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford this year on “Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life” examining four ancient philosophies: Socrates, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, and Platonism (mostly on Plotinus).”

The 4 readings are available as audio files, directly from the Oxford University.

As the same Clevenger says, “The last lecture was the most interesting for me as it has the most to bear on our understanding of the intellectual world within which Christianity swam from the 3rd-6th century.”

Comment. Clevenger. A Romp through the History of the Holy Spirit: From Scripture to Athanasius.

Today, Ryan Clevenger deals with this topic: “A Romp through the History of the Holy Spirit”.

This short article is full of biblical quotations, bringing us a very interesting Conclusion:

What we have seen so far is that

  1. the evidence in Scripture is not really as clear as we might want it to be and it demands some sort of reconciliation.
  2. The history up until this point bears that fact out as we see Patristic writers emphasizing specific texts over others and attempting to organize the disparate data. In other words, the issue of the Holy Spirit couldn’t be put off any longer. The debate with the Arians over the nature of the Son forced the question: what about the Holy Spirit? Their task was primarily exegetical, but even then everything had to be brought together. Not as some sort of abstract intellectual speculation, but a fundamental aspect of the life of the Church, of salvation, and of the nature of the God whom we worship.

The full article available here.

Commentary. The early Church Fathers, most of whom were fanatics with an axe to grind…

El día de ayer comencé la lectura de un librito cuyo título es por demás atractivo: The Gnostics. The first Christian heretics.

Escrito por Sean Matin, este libro ofrece una visión más o menos bien documentada sobre el gnosticismo, sin preocuparse en demasía por los aspectos más áridos de su tema, y en cambio, sí resaltando los elementos más sórdidos, y que debieran tratarse con un mínimo de cuidado.

Apenas en las primeras páginas, el polemista enconado hace su aparición, en un párrafo por demás cuestionable:

Despite the writings of the early Church Fathers, most of whom were fanatics with an axe to grind, the term ‘Gnostic’ was not universally used by Gnostic teachers such as Valentinus and Marcion, who usually simply referred to themselves as Christians, nor by Church apologists such as Tertullian and Irenaeus, who often called them simply ‘heretics’. The problem is further compounded by the fact that the Gnostics themselves were comprised of diverse groups which did not have a uniform set of beliefs; indeed, diversity is one of the hallmarks of Gnosticism. Furthermore, not all Gnostics were Christian – some were Jews, some Pagan.
Modern scholarship is divided over what is actually meant by the term ‘Gnosticism’. In 1966, a colloquium of scholars met at Messina in Italy to establish exactly what is meant by Gnosticism and gnosis. They concluded that Gnosticism refers to the religious systems developed in the early centuries of the Common Era, while gnosis is the attaining of knowledge. One could therefore have gnosis, but not be a Gnostic. (For the present book, we will try to adhere to the Messina definitions.) The political theorist Eric Voegelin further muddied the waters when he attempted to define Gnosticism as being derived from a general feeling of alienation and disconnectedness with society. As a result, he detected Gnosticism in Marxism, Communism and Nazism, all of which, according to Voegelin, were movements which wanted to bring about apocalypse (he dubbed it ‘immanentising the eschaton’).
Gnostic tendencies have since been spotted in a wide variety of writers, thinkers, political and spiritual movements, and also across the spectrum of popular culture, from Hollywood movies to computer games and comics. This bewilderingly diverse group includes the likes of not only Jung, but also William Blake, Goethe, Herman Melville, Albert Camus, Hegel, Nietzsche, WB Yeats, Franz Kafka, Existentialists, all manner of Theosophists, Jack Kerouac, Philip K Dick, computer games such as the Xenosaga series, comics such as Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and Alan Moore’s Promethea and movies such as The Truman Show and the Matrix trilogy.

Martin, The Gnostics. The first Christian Heretics, pp. 15-17.  2006.

Dejando de lado ese tono sensacionalista, ávido de publicidad y reconocimiento, hay un punto a favor que este libro tiene de manera indudable: obliga al lector a repensar por completo su visión de la Iglesia, y en cuanto tal, ofrece la posibilidad de indicar un sendero de estudio e investigación por demás válido, que quienquiera que esté interesado en el tema podrá sortear, tomando sus propios riesgos y obteniendo también sus propias conclusiones.

La visión panorámica -si bien afectada por ese afán de polémica- de la Historia de la Iglesia de los primeros tiempos, resalta de una manera práctica y también continua los altibajos que adolece dicho periodo histórico. Y sin dudar en llamar a Pablo ‘verdadero fundador del cristianismo’ o al mismo Pablo ‘el primer hereje cristiano’, el autor también repasa los testimonios más importantes sobre el tema, en este libro de divulgación que involuntariamente resulta estar muy bien formado, aunque la argumentación general no se atreve a sacar las últimas conclusiones de semejantes tramas.

Un libro por demás interesante, que puede leerse como una curiosidad, y de la que, escudriñando atentamente, puede obtenerse y sin duda alguna, un gran provecho.

México, Frontera Norte. 9 de Noviembre de 2011.

Church history: Works, studies, theses related to the Church history.

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All these items can be accessed in the next link, as a permanent collection in our Scribd account:

 

 

Greek ecclesiastical historians of the first six centuries of the Christian era. 1843.

Greek ecclesiastical historians of the first six centuries of the Christian era (1843)

Volumes: 6
Subject: Christian literature, Early; Church history
Publisher: London, Bagster
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 518631
Book contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Collection: princeton; americana
Scanfactors: 3

Description

–Vol. I. Life of Constantine from 306 to 337 A.C., by Eusebius Pamphilus.
–Vol. II. Ecclesiastical history to 324 A.D., by Eusebius. 4th ed.
–Vol. III. History of the church from 306 to 445 A.D., by Socrates.
–Vol. IV. History of the church from 324 to 440 A.D., by Sozomen.
–Vol. V. History of the church from 322 to 427 A.D., by Theodoretus.
–Vol. VI. History of the church from 431 to 594 A.D., by Evagrius Scholasticus


Fleury. Abrégé de l’histoire ecclésiastique de M. l’abbé Fleury. 1750.

Abregé de L’Histoire Ecclesiastique

de Mr. L’Abbé Fleury

Contenant les I. II. III. & IV. Siècles.

Author: Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723; Morenas, François, 1702-1774
Subject: Église catholique; Papes
Publisher: Avignon : C. Delorme
Language: French
Call number: BX 944 .F55 1750
Digitizing sponsor: University of Ottawa
Book contributor: University of Ottawa
Collection: universityofottawa; toronto

NOTA: The volumes 6 and 8 has not been released yet. The last volumes, 9 and 10, was written by Morenas as continuation of the first 8 volumes of this collection.