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Jean Daniélou · 1965 · Book
Jean Daniélou's brief but penetrating work emerged from the theological ferment of the 1960s, when questions about the church's relationship to the modern world pressed with particular urgency. Writing in the midst…
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Henri de Lubac · 1965 · Book
Henri de Lubac's final major theological statement emerged from decades of controversy surrounding his understanding of nature and grace. Written as both clarification and culmination, this work addressed persistent misunderstandings of his…
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Thomas Merton · 1966 · Book
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander emerged from Thomas Merton's journal entries between 1956 and 1965, a period when the Trappist monk was grappling with his role as a contemplative in an increasingly…
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Josef Pieper · 1966 · Book
Josef Pieper's systematic examination of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance emerged from his broader project of recovering classical and medieval wisdom for modern ethical reflection. Writing in post-war Germany as a Catholic…
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Alexander Jones, general editor; team of British Catholic scholars · 1966 · Scripture
The Jerusalem Bible was the first major postwar English Catholic Bible translated from the original languages with broad literary ambition. Covering the complete Catholic Bible, it was rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1966 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote this theological meditation during the transformative years of Vatican II, as the Catholic Church grappled with its mission in the modern world. The work emerged from his…
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Henri de Lubac · 1966 · Book
Henri de Lubac's L'Écriture dans la Tradition emerged from the theological ferment of the 1960s as Catholic scholars grappled with questions of biblical interpretation and ecclesial authority in the wake of Vatican…
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Yves Congar · 1966 · Book
Yves Congar wrote this theological treatise in the early 1960s as the Second Vatican Council was reconsidering the Catholic Church's relationship to Scripture, tradition, and development of doctrine. The work emerged from…
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Josef Pieper · 1967 · Book
Hope and History emerged from Josef Pieper's philosophical wrestling with the relationship between Christian hope and human temporal existence. Writing in the 1960s amid widespread cultural upheaval and questions about progress, the…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1967 · Book
Bernard Lonergan's Verbum represents a groundbreaking philosophical investigation into Thomas Aquinas's understanding of human knowing, emerging from Lonergan's doctoral studies and years of teaching medieval philosophy. Originally published as a series of…
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Josef Pieper · 1968 · Book
Josef Pieper's "Death and Immortality" emerged from his lifelong engagement with Thomas Aquinas and the challenge of articulating perennial Christian truths to a modern audience increasingly skeptical of traditional metaphysics. Writing in…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 1968 · Book
Joseph Ratzinger delivered these lectures at the University of Tübingen during the tumultuous summer of 1967, as student protests swept German universities and traditional Christianity faced unprecedented intellectual and cultural challenges. The…
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Yves Congar · 1968 · Book
Yves Congar's ecclesiological study emerges from his lifelong commitment to understanding the Church's self-understanding across history. Writing in the midst of post-Vatican II theological ferment, Congar turned his attention to the formative…
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Thomas Merton · 1968 · Book
Published near the end of Merton's life, this collection of essays represents the Trappist monk's sustained engagement with Zen Buddhism during the 1960s, a period when few Western Christians were seriously exploring…
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Thomas Merton · 1969 · Book
Thomas Merton's final book on prayer emerged from his mature understanding of contemplative spirituality, written in the last years before his death in 1968. The work synthesizes decades of monastic experience at…
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Henri de Lubac · 1969 · Book
Henri de Lubac's "La foi chrétienne" emerged from his decades of wrestling with the relationship between faith and reason in an increasingly secular age. Writing in 1969 amid the intellectual upheavals following…
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Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1970 · Scripture
The New American Bible was the first complete American Catholic Bible translated broadly from the original languages under modern Catholic norms, marking a shift away from the long-standing reliance on the Latin…
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Yves Congar · 1970 · Book
This systematic examination of the four traditional marks of the Church emerged from Yves Congar's decades of engagement with ecclesiological questions that reached new urgency in the wake of Vatican II. Writing…
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Two Sisters in the Spirit Two Sisters in the Spirit: Thérèse of Lisieux and Elizabeth of the Trinity
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1970 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological meditation examines two French Carmelites who died within a decade of each other at the turn of the twentieth century. Both Thérèse of Lisieux and Elizabeth of…
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Grace and Freedom Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
Bernard Lonergan · 1971 · Book
This systematic theological study emerged from Bernard Lonergan's doctoral dissertation at the Gregorian University in Rome, completed in 1940 but not published in English until 1971. Lonergan undertook this intensive analysis of…
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Mother Teresa (St. Teresa of Calcutta) · 1971 · Book
Something Beautiful for God emerged from British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge's 1969 documentary filming with Mother Teresa in the slums of Calcutta. Originally skeptical of religious figures, Muggeridge found himself profoundly moved by…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1972 · Book
Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology emerged from decades of reflection on how theological inquiry could achieve the rigor and precision that marks authentic intellectual work. Writing in the aftermath of Vatican II,…
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Henri Nouwen · 1972 · Book
Henri Nouwen's "The Wounded Healer" emerged from his observations of ministry in an increasingly secular and fragmented world of the early 1970s. Writing as both priest and psychologist, Nouwen addressed the crisis…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1973–1983 · Treatise
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theo-Drama represents the second movement of his massive theological trilogy, published across five volumes between 1973 and 1983. Writing in response to what he saw as theology's excessive…
