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Origen (185-254), ancient theologian and philosopher, has had a profound influence on Christian theology and the whole history of European thought with his academic mindset and his original thinking on topics such as liberty, history and justice. This bilingual edition in 25 volumes aims to make his complete writings available and accessible to scholars across a range of disciplines as a rich historical resource for present-day problems in religious culture, theology, philosophy and ethics.

All texts are presented in a modern translation - many of them for the first time in German...

The critical edition of Schleiermacher's major work, the Glaubenslehre "Doctrine of Faith"] (published in 2003 in two part-volumes 13/1 and 13/2 of the Critical Edition of Schleiermacher's Complete Works, 1st Section) is based on the original printed second edition of 1830/31, which has been compared for the first time with the manuscript in Schleiermacher's own hand re-discovered in 1980.

This critical edition, with over 1000 improvements, some significant, compared with the Redeker edition will in future be the sole authoritative one. It is now published as a handy...

A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice is a culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In this provocative book, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call from outside and above themselves. Conyers reveals with stunning insight how the quintessential institution of modernity is slavery, for the slave is the ultimate autonomous individual whose ties to family, church, and clan are dissolved. Cogently arguing for the affections that constitute real community, Conyers restores a...

Montemaggi offers a detailed theological reading of the Commedia, examining the theme of human interaction, both as it is represented in the poem-the narrator Dante's interaction with other characters-and by the relationship between author and reader. In...

This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers selections from the Summa Theologica that best represent Thomas Aquinas' views on the moral and spiritual world in which we live.

Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the...