Pearls

Thoughts of life that condense accumulated over time and shared with friends like you dialogues reflections

01/12/2014

Review: The Agony of Jesus

Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII and Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. [...]

15/11/2014

Review: The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters Paperback – March 3, 2009 by C. S. Lewis In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in Christian faith, by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, seen from [...]

01/11/2014

Review: Inner life

Joseph Tissot., La vida interior. Herder (2011) ISBN 9788425427367 Joseph Tissot., Inner life. His work aims to address the foundation of the Christian life. Show where they should be the basis of the inner life. Tissot underlines that the end of the inner life is none other than [...]

15/10/2014

Review: El criterio

Jaime Balmes., El criterio, Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid (2011) ISBN 9788422015529 Balmes was born at Vic in Catalonia, Spain and baptized the same day in the cathedral of that city with the name of Jaime Luciano Antonio. He died in the same city. In 1817, Balmes began his [...]

03/10/2014

Review: Spiritual treasure

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας; 329 or 330[5] – January 1 or 2, 379), was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in [...]

15/09/2014

Review: The Mysteries of Christianity

Jean Daniélou S.J. (1905–1974) was a theologian, historian, cardinal and a member of the Académie Française. Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, son of Charles and Madeleine (née Clamorgan). His father was an anticlerical [...]

01/09/2014

Review: The Mysteries of Christianity

The list of Scheeben's works opens with three treatises dealing with grace: Natur und Gnade. Versuch einer systematischen, wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der natürlichen und übernatürlichen Lebensordnung im Menschen. Mainz: 1861. (Nature and Grace. Trans. Cyril Vollert, SJ. [...]

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Pearls

Review: The Agony of Jesus

Review: The Screwtape Letters

Review: Inner life

Review: El criterio

Review: Spiritual treasure

Review: The Mysteries of Christianity

Review: The Mysteries of Christianity

07. Reviews of Theology