Catholic Literature and Culture

Eilein na h-Òige: The Poems of Fr Allan McDonald edited by Ronald Black. An anthology of thirty-four hymns and religious poems by one of the best loved pastors the Scottish Catholic Church has ever known: Maighstear Ailein, Fr Allan McDonald, whose name is remembered to this day in South Uist, Barra and Eriskay. In Gaelic, with facing English translations. Also includes the 1956 biography of Fr Allan by Dr John Lorne Campbell of Canna, and an assessment of his contribution to Gaelic literature.
ISBN 1 901157 61 X, 544 pages, paperback, £14.95 ($26.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
The Book of Christian Classics edited with an introduction by Michael Williams. A selection of some of the best of Christian devotional writing, spanning two millennia from the Fathers of the Church to the early twentieth century.
ISBN 1 901157 21 0, 466 pages, clothbound with ribbon, £12.95 ($27.50 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
Beyond the Blue Glass, Volume I: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture by Aidan Nichols OP. Essays on Catholic faith and culture from one of the most gifted Catholic thinkers of the present day.
ISBN 1 901157 16 4, 210 pages, clothbound, £14.95 ($26.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
Beyond the Blue Glass, Volume II: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture by Aidan Nichols OP. More essays on Catholic faith and culture from England's acclaimed Dominican theologian.
ISBN 1 901157 17 2, 250 pages, clothbound, £14.95 ($26.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
The Catholicism of Shakespeare’s Plays by Peter Milward SJ. Evidence from his plays that suggests that the bard was a secret Catholic.
ISBN 1 901157 10 5, 113 pages, paperback, £9.95 ($16.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
The Simplicity of the West by Peter Milward SJ. Fr. Milward explores the influence of Western civilisation on human history, and asks where the West has gone wrong in our age.
ISBN 1 901157 95 4, 150 pages, paperback, £9.95 ($16.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
Shakespeare’s Apocalypse by Peter Milward SJ. Following his recent study The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays, Fr. Milward examines more closely the themes of doomsday and judgement in these great dramas. A topical book at the end of the second Christian millenium, when the popular mind is preoccupied with strange predictions of doom.
ISBN 1 901157 32 6, 90 pages, paperback, £9.95 ($16.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
Vertical Man: The Human Being in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset and Georges Bernanos by J.C. Whitehouse. Detailed interpretations of the human being in the works of these three major twentieth-century Catholic novelists.
ISBN 1 901157 01 6, 227 pages, paperback, £8.95 ($24.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
A Solovyov Anthology edited by S.L. Frank. Introduced by Cardinal Hans Urs von Balthasar, with a preface by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi. Hailed as 'the Russian Newman', the great Eastern theologian, poet and mystic Vladimir Solovyov was born into the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a life-long advocate for the authority of the Pope, and was received into the Catholic Church towards the end of his life.
An anthology of his writings.
ISBN 1 901157 19 9, 250 pages, clothbound, £14.95 ($26.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 
Roy Campbell - Selected Poems compiled by Joseph Pearce. Considered by many of his peers, most notably by T S Eliot and Edith Sitwell, as one of the greatest of the modern poets, Campbell's reputation has suffered because of his failure to be 'politically correct'. This new volume of his verse, published to coincide with a new biography, illustrates the perennial power of tradition over the facile fads of modernity.
ISBN 1 901157 59 8, 170 pages, paperback, £9.95 ($16.95 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket

 

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