Author: St. John Cassian
Publisher: Newman Press of the Paulist Press
Keywords: institutes
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0809105225
ISBN-13: 9780809105229

A companion to John Cassian’s well-received Conferences in the Ancient Christian Writers series, the Institutes, known also as The Institutes of the Cenobia and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Vices, is the first written work of John Cassian, who had an immense influence on Western monasticism, and, by extension, on Western civilization. The Institutes is made up of two sections. In the first, Cassian deals with the institutes and rules of Egyptian monasteries, including monastic garb and prayer. The second part, in eight books, treats the eight principal vices and describes how

Author: John Hammond Taylor
Publisher: Newman Press
Keywords: ancient, christian, writers, genesis, meaning, vol, literal, augustine
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0809103265
ISBN-13: 9780809103263

A thorough and conscientious commentary on the first three chapters from the Book of Genesis, completed in 415. Augustine’s purpose is to explain, to the best of his ability, what the author intended to say about what God did when he made heaven and earth. Contains Books 1-6.

Author: Dominic J. Unger
Publisher: Newman Press
Keywords: christian, writers, ancient, book, lyons, heresies, irenaeus
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0809104547
ISBN-13: 9780809104543

This work, which establishes Irenaeus as the most important of the theologians of the second century, is a detailed and effective refutation of Gnosticism, and a major source of information on the various Gnostic sects and doctrines.

Author: George Ashdown Audsley
Publisher: Newman Press
Keywords: registration, artistic, stops, organ
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1443726575
ISBN-13: 9781443726573

ORGAN - STOPS AND THEIR ARTISTIC REGISTRATION. NAMES, FORMS, CONSTRUCTION, TONALITIES, AND OFFICES IN SCIENTIFIC COMBINATION by GEORGE ASHDOWN UDSLEY. Originally published in 1921. FOREWORD: An attempt has been made in the present work to furnish the organist, and especially the organ student, with a work of ready ref erence respecting the numerous Stops which have been and now are introduced in the Organ giving, so far as is practicable in a necessarily brief and condensed form, their various names in dif ferent languages, peculiarities of formation, tonal characteristics, and value and offic

Author: H. Weitemeyer
Publisher: Newman Press
Keywords: arts, social, life, finance, fine, literature, history, topography, language, denmark
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-11-27
List price: $11.45
ISBN-10: 1444661671
ISBN-13: 9781444661675

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: John W. Lynch
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: poem, silence, wrapped, woman
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1968-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0809119056
ISBN-13: 9780809119059

A classic epic poem about Mary’s fidelity and piety.

Author: Stephen M. Wylen
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: reading, sacred, scriptures, way, jewish, faces, torah, seventy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809141795
ISBN-13: 9780809141791

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all acknowledge the Hebrew Bible to be sacred Scripture. And yet these different, and often contradictory, religions each has its own way of reading the Bible, interpreting it according to its own later sacred literature. In The Seventy Faces of Torah, Rabbi Stephen Wylen has written an important book that explains in clear and simple language the Jewish art of reading and interpreting the Bible. He introduces the reader to the major texts and genres of rabbinic literature in which the Jews discover 70 profound insights in every single verse of the Bible. Ma