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Josef Pieper · 1958 · Book
Happiness and Contemplation emerged from Josef Pieper's philosophical investigation into what constitutes genuine human fulfillment in an age increasingly dominated by utilitarian thinking and the worship of productivity. Writing in postwar Germany,…
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Jean Daniélou · 1958–1970 · Book
Jean Daniélou's comprehensive three-volume study emerged from his decades of scholarly engagement with patristic sources and his concern that modern Catholics had lost touch with the theological riches of the early church.…
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Yves Congar · 1958 · Book
Yves Congar's Le Mystère du temple emerged from his deep engagement with patristic and medieval sources during the 1950s, as the French Dominican theologian sought to recover a more biblical and historically…
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Jean Daniélou · 1958 · Book
Jean Daniélou's Théologie du judéo-christianisme emerged from his groundbreaking work in early Christian history and his desire to recover a crucial but neglected chapter in Christianity's development. Writing in the 1950s as…
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Thomas Merton · 1958 · Book
Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude emerged from his deepest period of contemplative withdrawal at the Abbey of Gethsemani, written during the 1950s as he sought greater solitude within monastic life. The work…
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Henri de Lubac · 1959–1964 · Book
Henri de Lubac's monumental four-volume study emerged from his conviction that modern biblical scholarship had lost touch with the rich interpretive tradition of medieval Christianity. Writing in the decades following World War…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1959 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's A Theology of History emerged from his conviction that modern historical consciousness had created a crisis for Christian faith. Writing in the aftermath of two world wars and…
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Jean Daniélou · 1960 · Book
Jean Daniélou wrote this work as a systematic exploration of how the Old Testament prefigures and finds fulfillment in the New Testament, drawing on the patristic tradition of typological interpretation. Writing in…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Problems of Modern Faith emerged from Josef Pieper's lectures delivered in the late 1950s, addressing the intellectual challenges facing Christian belief in an increasingly secular age. Writing as a Thomistic philosopher deeply…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Josef Pieper's brief but penetrating study emerges from his lifelong engagement with medieval philosophy and his concern that modern scholarship had fundamentally misunderstood the nature and achievement of scholastic thought. Writing in…
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Dorothy Day · 1960 · Book
Dorothy Day published this life of Thérèse of Lisieux in 1960, nearly three decades into her work with the Catholic Worker movement and the houses of hospitality she had helped found with…
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Glory of the Lord The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1961–1969 · Treatise
Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume theological aesthetics emerged from his conviction that modern theology had abandoned beauty as a fundamental category for understanding divine revelation. Writing across the turbulent 1960s as the…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's The New Man emerged from his deepening contemplative practice at Gethsemani Abbey in the late 1950s, written as he grappled with questions of human transformation and spiritual maturity that had…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation emerged from his deepening understanding of contemplative prayer and mystical theology during his mature years as a Trappist monk at Gethsemani Abbey. First published in 1961,…
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Josef Pieper · 1962 · Book
Josef Pieper's Guide to Thomas Aquinas emerged from the German philosopher's conviction that the medieval doctor's thought had been systematically misunderstood by both admirers and critics. Writing in the early 1960s amid…
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Josef Pieper · 1963 · Book
Josef Pieper's philosophical investigation of belief emerges from his lifelong engagement with Thomas Aquinas and his concern that modern thought had severed faith from reason. Writing in postwar Germany, Pieper addressed a…
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In Tune with the World In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity
Josef Pieper · 1963 · Book
Josef Pieper's brief philosophical meditation emerges from his concern that modern industrial society has lost the capacity for genuine celebration. Writing in 1963 as Western culture increasingly defined itself through productivity and…
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Dorothy Day · 1963 · Book
Loaves and Fishes is Dorothy Day's account of the Catholic Worker movement — not her own life story, which she had told in The Long Loneliness a decade earlier, but the story…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1963 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's "Love Alone Is Credible" emerged from his conviction that modern theology had lost its way by divorcing truth from beauty and goodness. Writing in 1963 as the Second…
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Yves Congar · 1963 · Book
Yves Congar wrote this ecclesiological reflection in 1963 as the Second Vatican Council was reshaping Catholic understanding of the Church's mission and identity. The French Dominican theologian, who served as a peritus…
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Jean Daniélou · 1964 · Book
Jean Daniélou's study emerged from his extensive work as a patristic scholar and his recognition that early Christian symbolism had been largely overlooked in modern theological education. Writing in the wake of…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1964 · Treatise
Bernard Lonergan's De Constitutione Christi emerged from his theological lectures at the Gregorian University in Rome during the 1950s, addressing fundamental questions about the metaphysical constitution of Christ that had puzzled theologians…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1964 · Treatise
De Deo Trino represents Bernard Lonergan's systematic attempt to reconstruct Trinitarian theology using his method of transcendental analysis. Written as part of his broader theological project in the 1960s, this Latin treatise…
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Henri de Lubac · 1965 · Book
Henri de Lubac's study of modern Augustinianism emerged from his broader project of ressourcement theology and his particular concern with the distortions of Augustine's thought that had shaped Catholic theology since the…
