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[Offtopic] The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn from the secret Archives of the Vatican and other original sources; from the German (1891)
Finally this big work of Ludwig Pastor in the English translation is available via Internet Archive. 40 volumes are fully available, with the great quality and easy accessibility we can found in this site.
You can make an search with the next string to find all the IA volumes, letting out the ‘Tpb’ copies -all of them taken from Googlebooks-, and get all the complete series.
Other edition is available too, but incomplete, only -i think- a half of the volumes. The search string show the volumes ordined from 1 to 40:
Francisco.
Offtopic. Some journals and series.
Journal of theological studies.
Lex orandi & Lex credendi.
Oriens Christianus.
Regna and Gentes.
Best Regards,
Anesti!
Please note that i upload for those ho want these books:
Authority and ascetism from Augustine to Gregory The Great.
Athanasius and Constantius. Theology and politics in the Constantian Empire.
The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses.
but!–> The publisher does not entitled anyone to make a commercial use of any work shared here!! So, for request the password write at praetorian_iq322@yahoo.com
Many thx to Pr. Stefan Zara & Francisco Arriaga for their help!
The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology
[2008] Cunningham, M. & Theokritoff, E. (eds.) –
The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology
(click on link for download) powered by Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2009Orthodox Christian theology is often presented as the direct inheritor of the doctrine and tradition of the early Church. But continuity with the past is only part of the truth; it would be false to conclude that the eastern section of the Christian Church is in any way static. Orthodoxy, building on its patristic foundations, has blossomed in the modern period. This volume focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today. It explores the Orthodox understanding of what theology is: an expression of the Church’s life of prayer, both corporate and personal, from which it can never be separated. Besides discussing aspects of doctrine, the book portrays the main figures, themes and developments that have shaped Orthodox thought. There is particular focus on the Russian and Greek traditions, as well as the dynamic but less well-known Antiochian tradition and the Orthodox presence in the West.
( The publisher does not entitled anyone to make a commercial use of any work shared here!! So, for request the passwor write at praetorian_iq322@yahoo.com )
Offtopic. Guettée: The papacy its historic origin and primitive relations with the Eastern churches
A catholic priest who becomes an orthodox, involved in the sad and violent movements regarding the promulgation of the 1854 catholic dogma about the Immaculate Concepcion of the Holy Virgin, this writter make several books where shows a clear and high argumentation about some topics very difficult, even today.
An article of 1992 show the process involved in the pass from the catholic church into the orthodox, you can read the whole article here.
In the quotes taked from the self writtings of Guettée, we can read [i copy from the original article]:
“From my conversations with His Grace,” wrote Fr. Guettée, “it became clear that although formally I was not Orthodox, I was nevertheless a genuinely Orthodox writer….And I fervently desired to become Orthodox in deed, i.e., to belong to the Russian Church.” An exception was made and, by order of the Holy Synod, Guettée was received into the Orthodox Church in his clerical rank (under the present circumstances such economy would clearly be inadmissible). “I became Orthodox,” said Fr. Guettée, “without having read a single book about Orthodoxy, simply having studied the Fathers of the Church, the decrees of the first ecumenical councils, and the incontestable facts of the history of the Church.”
The book what here we share deals with the trouble of the papacy, his origins and the historic development in the first centuries of the christianism.
It is not a easy reading, several proposes and statues strike us to a new points of view about some ‘pre-existent’ historical concepts.
We take the Roman episcopate at the origin of Christianity, follow it through centuries, and are able to prove incontestably, that during eight centuries the spiritual Papacy, as we understand it at the present day, had no existence ; that the bishop of Rome was during three centuries only a bishop^ with the same rank as the others that in the fourth century he received a primacy of honor without universal jurisdiction ; that this honor has no other foundation than the decrees of the Church; that his restricted jurisdiction over certain neighboring churches is supported only upon a custom legalized by Councils.
As for the universal sovereignty, absolute, of divine right—in other words, the Papacy—facts and catholic testimony of the first eight centuries condemn instead of sustaining it.
History reveals to us the Papacy, after several fruitless attempts, taking its birth from circumstances and establishing itself in the ninth century, with its double political and ecclesiastical character. Its real founder was Adrian L Nicholas I. chiefly contributed to its development ; Gregory VII. raised it to its loftiest pitch.
A book of hard reading, but a good analysis under the patristic and apostolic thoughts.
Available via Internet Archive.
Patristic study
Written by Henry Barclay Sweete and published in 1909, this text is available via Internet Archive.
THIS little book has for its aim to draw the attention of the younger clergy of the Church of England to the vast store of wisdom which has been bequeathed to them by the ancient Catholic Church.
The Fathers are often quoted, but in the hurry of the times they are perhaps seldom read. Yet quotation is safe only in the hands of the careful student. Knowledge gained at second hand is not merely of little worth, but may easily become mischievous both to its possessor and to the Church.
It is the hope of the writer that his attempt to map out the field of Patristic learning may serve to stimulate and guide personal study, and not be regarded as in any sense a substitute for it.H.B.S.
CAMBRIDGE, Christmas Eve, 1901
Chapter
I Introductory
II Fathers of the First Two Centuries
III Fathers of the Third Century
IV Post-Nicene Fathers (Greek and Eastern)
V Pos-Nicene Fathers (Latin)
VI Courses and Methods of Patristic Study
VII Helps to Patristic Study
This book is available here.
Other interesting titles written by the same auctor -maybe a little ‘oftopic’, but useful- are:
Selections from the Septuagint, according to the text of Swete (1905)
The Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introduction, notes and indices
The Akhmîm fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter
An introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Rev. by Richard Rusden Ottley. With an appendix containing the letter of Aristeas edited by H. St. J. Thackeray
The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint
The Psalms of Solomon : with the Greek fragments of the Book of Enoch
Offtopic: Albertus Magnus Opera Omnia. Borgnet edition. More info.
Kindly, Ivo Fasiori let is know about other digitazion project of the Opera Omnia Borgnet’s edition, mantained by the University of Waterloo, Department of Classical Studies.
The staff is working in a digital database, what allow the search of text inside each volume digitized, and a big update of this site is planned to Spring 2009. The project needs too any economical collaboration, please check details in the project’s site.
Note: the site has excluded the fake oeuvres from Albertus Magnus, as the team writes:
3) these files sometimes contain works falsely ascribed to Albert, but only authentic individual works are explicitly mentioned on this page;
4) volumes 13, 15, 16, 17, 36, and 37 from the Borgnet edition, which contain only inauthentic works, are not included in this list.
Francisco.
Offtopic: Albertus Magnus Opera Omnia. Borgnet edition.
Martin D’Ascenzo is working on the list of the Albertus Magnus Opera Omnia, Borgnet edition, inside Googlebooks service.
He has published two entries about this project, in his personal blog:
To see a preliminary notice about this issue click here.
To get the list with the volumes until this day located inside GoogleBooks, click here.
Note: Martin is sharing too several volumes via scribd. Any comment or request of information can be delivered to he via Patrologia’s group, or in his own blog.
Francisco.
Offtopic. Schaff: Bibliotheca symbolica ecclesiæ universalis
Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiæ Universalis.
THE CREEDS OF CHRISTENDOM,
WITH
A HISTORY AND CRITICAL NOTES
BY
PHILIP SCHAFF, D. D., LL. D.,
PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, N. Y.
IN THREE VOLUMES
THIRD EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1881.
V. 1. The history of creeds.
V. 2. The Greek and Latin creeds, with translations.
V. 3. The evangelical Protestant creeds, with translations.
PREFACE.
A ‘symbolical library’ that contains the creeds and confessions of all Christian denominations fills a vacuum in theological and historical literature. It is surprising that it has not been supplied long ago. Sectarian exclusiveness or doctrinal indifferentism may have prevented, it. Other symbolical collections are confined to particular denominations and periods. In this work the reader will find the authentic material for the study of Comparative Theology—Symbolics, Polemics, and Irenies. In a country like ours, where people of all creeds meet in daily contact, this study ought to command more attention than it has hitherto received.
The First Volume has expanded into a doctrinal history of the Church, so far as it is embodied in public standards of faith. The most important and fully developed symbolical systems—the Vatican Romanism, the Lutheranism of the Formula of Concord, and the Calvinism of the Westminster standards— have been subjected to a critical analysis. The author has endeavored to combine the àleteúein én àgápe and the agapán en aletéia, and to be mindful of the golden motto, In necessariis imitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. Honest and earnest controversy, conducted in a Christian and catholic spirit, promotes true and lasting union. Polemics looks to Irenies —the aim of war is peace.
The Second Volume contains the Scripture Confessions, the ante-Nicene Rules of Faith, the OEcumenical, the Greek, and the Latin Creeds, from the Confession of Peter down to the Vatican Decrees. It includes also the best Russian Catechism and the recent Old Catholic Union Propositions of the Bonn Conferences.
The Third Volume is devoted to the Lutheran, Anglican, Calvinistic, and the later Protestant Confessions of Faith. The documents of the Third Part (pp. 707-876) have never been collected before.
The creeds and confessions are given in the original languages from the best editions, and are accompanied by translations for the convenience of the English reader.’1
While these volumes were passing through the press several learned treatises on the ancient creeds by Lumby, Swainson, Hort, Caspari, and others have appeared, though not too late to be noticed in the final revision. The literature has been brought down to the close of 1876. I trust that nothing of importance has escaped my attention.
I take pleasure in acknowledging my obligation to several distinguished divines, in America and England, for valuable information concerning the denominations to which they belong, and for several contributions, which appear under the writers’ names.2 In a history of conflicting creeds it is wise to consult representative men as well as books, in order to secure strict accuracy and impartiality, which are the cardinal virtues of a historian.
May this repository of creeds and confessions promote a better understanding among the Churches of Christ. The divisions of Christendom bring to light the various aspects and phases of revealed truth, and will be overruled at last for a deeper and richer harmony, of which Christ is the key-note. In him and by him all problems of theology and history will be solved. The nearer believers of different creeds approach the Christological centre, the better they will understand and love each other.P. S.
BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK,
December, 1876.
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Offtopic. A modern Syriac Bible
Few days ago the IA team digitize a modern Syriac Bible, in the Hugoye-list group the member Cdkskyk publish the notice.
This item was added the past march 6, and the item have the bookcard where can be readed the next:
“””BIBLE, The Syriac
Old testamente and new testament.
Mission of Babylon; pub. 1893″””
The addres to read online and/or download is:
http://www.archive.org/details/syriacbible00lond
The book have 994 pages, with inverted order.
Regards.
Francisco.
Offtopic. Budge: Coptic Biblical texts in the dialect of Upper Egypt [1912]
COPTIC
BIBLICAL TEXTS
IN THEDIALECT OF UPPER EGYPT
EDITED BY
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M. A., LITT. D.
KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
WITH TEN PLATES
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTESS
SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
AND BY LONGMANS AND CO., 38 PATERNOSTER ROW
BERNARD QUARITCH, 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, W.
ASHER AND CO., 14 BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN
AND HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER, LONDON
1912
PREFACE
THE present volume contains Coptic versions of the Books of Deuteronomy, Jonah, and the Acts of the Apostles, from the papyrus Codex Oriental No. 7594, and the Book of the Apocalypse from the paper manuscript, Oriental No. 6803; all of them are written in the dialect of Upper Egypt. The papyrus Codex was acquired by the Trustees in April last year, and the paper manuscript in the year 1907. The editing of the texts has been calTied out by an arrangement with my colleague Dr. L. D. Barnett, Keeper of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts in the British Museum.
The texts in the papyrus Codex are of great importance, for the script in a Greek hand which comes at the end of the Acts of the Apostles proves that the volume cannot have been written later than the middle of the fourth century. Hence it is now certain that copies of some Books of the Old and New Testaments, written in Coptic, were in circulation among the Egyptian Christians early in the first half of this century; and it is legitimate to conclude that the origin of the version itself cannot be placed later than the third century. The Codex is, in fact, the oldest known copy of any translation of any considerable portion of the Greek Bible; indeed it is probably as early as any copy now in existence of any substantial part of the Bible.
In the Introduction an attempt has been made to show the relation of the Coptic texts to their Greek originals, to describe the principal variations of the Coptic version, and to indicate to which of the great Greek MSS. the texts are most akin. This work and the collations were drawn up under the advice of Dr. Kenyon, who made many friendly suggestions. I am also indebted to him for his authoritative notes on the age of the Codex, and on the value of the texts in it for textual criticism of the Septuagint and the New Testament. My thanks are due to Mr. H. I. Bell, of the Department of Manuscripts, for his description of the papyrus fragments which formed the binding of the Codex; and to the Rev. G. Horner, M.A., who placed at my disposal his transcript of the Sahidic Acts of the Apostles from an Oxford MS. of the twelfth or thirteenth century, with permission to print any part of it. How far I have availed myself of his kindness the notes to the Acts show.
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND
ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES,
BRITISH MUSEUM.
March 11th, 1912.
Author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subject: Bible; Coptic language
Publisher: [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees : sold at the British Museum
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: Coptic; Ancient Greek
Call number: ACQ-1684
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Book contributor: Gerstein – University of Toronto
Collection: toronto
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Note: this is the second volume of the five volumes series called ‘COPTIC TEXTS Edited with introductions and english translations.’
The volumes I, III and V can be founded in this blog, in a previously pusblished post.