Dear Vince, Now I don't feel so bad about the Divine Life being "over my head". I know there is an old prayer for reading such material in one of my 1880's religious manuals; when I ever find it, I'll post it in the prayers section.
I think the paintings of Fra Angelico say a lot about this subject, also Pereguino.

Dear all,

As previously mentioned, there is a wonderful spirit of piety which breathes through the works of Scheeben, and gives them such a sweetness that one simply desires to read more, to ponder more closely, to enter more fully into the truths that he is expressing. Until now I had not seen how to express this, but today I came across the following information in the preface to his Mariology (Herder, 1946, translated by Rev. T.L.M.J. Guekers.).



That's it. And, at least in this world, one does not receive higher praise than that of the Holy Father.

It should also be mentioned that at a time when the study of St. Thomas was much neglected, Scheeben was conspicuous for his tremendous knowledge and love of the Angelic Doctor.

Sorry to bother you guys, but I've finally got a good deal of free time coming up and am starting to collect some of the manuals suggested to me in the thread I started awhile back. Is the Wilhelm & Scannell "Manual of Catholic Theology" posted on the main site (under Doctrine) the full text, or is some of it missing? I see Van Noort is also posted there, but I don't think that's the whole text. Thanks

Both are partial texts.

Okay that's what I thought but wasn't sure. Thanks.

Thanks to the grand efforts of a pious lady, another section has now been added, with more to come very soon:
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_13.html (THE DIVINE TRINITY)

And another - The Holy Trinity in Scripture:
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_14.html

And again, The Holy Trinity in Tradition:
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_15.html

And finally, for today, The Evolution of the Trinity. (Please don't have a heart attack, it's not anything that would make Joseph Ratzinger smile...)
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_16.html

Yes. ALL of us!

Come, Lord Jesus.

John, I will mail you a "rule" with Imperial units and no metric ones, asap.

Will one 25 feet long do?

I think it is rather odd that the only country which still (to my knowledge) holds on to many (but not all) of the units of the old Imperial measurement system is the U.S. We still use the "English" system here for most things. Although there have been repeated attempts to force the metric system on us, so far those efforts have failed.

Do you remember the Whitworth thread, John? Not used any more, I suspect. Too bad.

Why isn't this in PDF format, John? It would certainly be easier to download and share with others.

If you will e-mail me the files, I'll gladly make PDFs out of them and send them back to you, AND publish them to our library.

It looks as though I am going to have to call on our local Interlibrary Loan again...

Sure, great idea - remind me off-line some time.

Hi Colin,

There are two volumes to Scheeben's translated text by Wilhelm & Scannell. Volume One is 508 pages, with a 50-page Introduction to and history of Theology, assumably by Fr. Scheeben himself.

Volume Two has 560 pages, and an index in which the reader "is requested to refer to the Table of Contents, where the matter is arranged in logical order." It is quite more valuable to read the topics in the sequence in which they were written, as the forum here has been uploading them.

If all the installations here are collected, soon the full text will be obtained, for free, in two books which are extant, and which, if available, would each cost over hundreds of (U.S.) dollars, (British is twice that). The last report shown on booksearch three years ago was that each volume last seen was over $400.00 each. Such values indicate to those who want these books that not only is the value in rarity for collectors, but because of the sublime teaching of Scheeben's "Dogmatik," as elegantly transformed by Frs. Wilhelm & Scannell into English. John Lane has mentioned it, and I have noted, too, that Scheeben "breathes" his love for God's Doctrine through the texts.

The books may also be interloaned for those who are inclined to do so. For those more inclined, pages can be copied personally at any large Xerox machine. A thousand pages will be over $100.00 that way.

The Van Noort series has three (of ten) translated volumes. The other seven have remained in the original German. If people want these volumes, the availablilty being less difficult--but expensive, $300.00 will cover the acquisition from different sellers around the world. Very few sellers have all three volumes on hand. Be sure to inquire which Volume is being offered. Also interloan is a possibility.

Thanks to John for providing us with these valuable theological works.

I have ordered both volumes via Interlibrary loan, and they should arrive here later this week. I'll let you all know what takes place after that. I hope to copy, OCR, and PDF these books, and when I/we get them done, I will make them available to anyone who wants them.

John just sent me everything which has been done up to this point, mostly by Marilyn Remmel, bless her. As soon as I get my copies of the books, I'll get together with her and we can take sections. That should make things go a bit faster.

In the meantime, I'll make PDFs out of what John sent me and post them somewhere so that all of us can get to them more easily.

I have received the two volumes from Interlibrary Loan this week, and have started reading them. I am also in communications with Marilyn on our job of scanning and OCRing these.

I am at page xl (40) of the introduction and am fascinated, appalled, and overwhelmed by the sheer volume of books that have been written on the Church and its Theology. A Catholic could study for years and never read them all.

I see God's providence in protecting the vast majority of Catholics from ever having to study this much material. On the other hand, I think that many Catholics are severely remiss in NOT learning many of those things included in this vast treasury.

God is so good to us!

So, my first step in this job will be to completely copy every page of both volumes so that I can return the books. The second step will be to coordinate with Marilyn on the job. In the meantime, I will go through what has been done up to this point, as requested, checking for any small errors which may have crept into the work done up to this point. I will then, after coordinating with Marilyn and John, make PDFs out of what has been done up to this point, and will send the finished work to John to publish where he wishes.

I will also start publishing the work on our own website's library.

God Bless you all, and have a happy and holy Lent. Make the most of this one. We may not be able to participate deeply in another.

thank you for all the work you're putting into this. I have a lot of free time, so if there is anything at all I can do to help with the project just let me know. I'd be more than happy to do whatever I can.

Final sections of Volume I have now been posted.

http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_17.html
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_18.html
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... ll_19.html

Both volumes now online in full. Deo gratias!

And a special thank-you to Ken Gordon and Marilyn Remmel, who scanned and OCR'd almost all of this text.

Please let us know of any typographical errors you discover.

http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/wilhe ... index.html

May you be enlightened by the Sacred Doctrine of the Light of the World, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who came into the world to give witness to the Truth.