Msgr G Van Noort

This is the first of a series of reprints by Arouca Press. It features an exact reproduction of the interior from the original work published in 1955. It includes a new and classically designed cover.Excerpt from the Preface: "All priests know of many excellent manuals of theology in Latin. Many, however, confess that their long years in the ministry have seen them lose their mastery of that language and, as a consequence, the urge to pick up their seminary textbooks is not too strong. Our own teaching experience forces us to admit that many seminarians whose knowledge of Latin is insufficient fail to derive all that they should from their course in theology. Then, too, with the recent growth of interest in theology, a considerable number of nuns, brothers, and educated laymen who wish to study theology scientifically find the door barred to them because they do not know Latin. We sincerely hope that this work will make available to all interested students a full course of dogmatic theology in English."

This is the first of a series of reprints by Arouca Press. It features an exact reproduction of the interior from the original work published in 1961. It includes a new and classically designed cover.Excerpt from the Preface: "The term "dialogue" crops up today more and more frequently. It emerges before the reading public in publications as diverse as Theological Studies, Time, Harper's, or the New Yorker. While this book was never intended by its author as a contribution to the dialogue between estranged Christians, it does deal with matters that lie at the heart of that estrangement. It deals with Scripture, Tradition, Faith. While it is doubtless fruitful for divergent Christian sects to exchange viewpoints on specific topics such as "Church and State," or "birth-control," or "Ecumenism," it is obviously more important to understand the broad, fundamental principles which ultimately control the specific answers divergent Christian sects offer for specific problems. Scripture, Tradition, Faith--these three topics form the subject matter of the present volume, and conclude the section of theology called Fundamental. Because fundamental theology pours the concrete foundations on which the whole vast edifice of theology will be erected, the topics herein treated are discussed, not for their own sake, but with an eye always on what is to come, the final building with all its specialized corridors."

This is the first of a series of reprints by Arouca Press. It features an exact reproduction of the interior from the original work published in 1957. It includes a new and classically designed cover. From the inside of the original book: This volume is one of the most interesting in the series. It gives a full treatment of the Church, how it was considered through the ages, what others object to in Catholic teaching and what true theology can prove to be the case. While accurately adhering to the original the translators have made extensive revisions in text and bibliography, thus bringing the work fully up to date and making it uniquely useful to English-speaking readers. Teachers, seminarians, religious, the clergy and informed laity alike will find the work a rich source of theological exactness. The theses are at once brief and comprehensive, the argumentation succinct and solid, the style simple and clear.