Suppose we are asked to complete this phrase: “Original ——.” What do we answer? My guess is that we, and most people who have received adequate Christian education, would respond: “Original Sin.”
With St. Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, the response is radically different. The response becomes: [Read more…]
St. Catherine of Siena’s crowning work, The Dialogue, features her conversations with God on topics such as virtue, sin, and suffering.
In the excerpt below (the whole book is free this month), St. Catherine of Siena paints a vision for how the Church’s suffering today transforms it into Christ’s likeness, which will soon result in joy. She writes imaginatively from the perspective of God the Father. [Read more…]
A new month brings a new free book, and this one’s a classic.
October’s free book of the month is Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue, in which St. Catherine, named a Doctor of the Church in 1970, shares her conversations with God on the topics of salvation, suffering, perfection, and more. [Read more…]
The September monthly sale has arrived, and with it, up to 30% off a great selection of valuable resources.
Shop the sale now, and take a look at these three resources that will add a wealth of biblical scholarship and insight to your library. [Read more…]
It’s your last chance to save 30% on resources from the outstanding Popular Patristics Series during the Verbum Monthly Sale.
The Popular Patristics Series makes early Christian literature more accessible than ever. [Read more…]
Thoughtful and thorough Catholic scholarship is vital to the health of the Church and the edification of all believers.
But how do we measure its health, and how do we know where it’s headed?
In this month’s free book, Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A Constructive Conversation, New Testament scholars Luke Timothy Johnson and William Kurz open a conversation with the Church about biblical scholarship that maintains the freedom of critical inquiry but remains loyal to tradition. [Read more…]
It’s your last chance to get The Bread of Life, or, St. Thomas Aquinas on the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar for free this month, along with two other Aquinas works for under $8.
Discover Aquinas’ meditations on the beauty and mystery of the Blessed Sacrament in The Bread of Life, or, St. Thomas Aquinas on the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar for free. Divided into 7 parts and containing 30 meditations, Henry Augustus Rawes has translated the original Latin into English and provided summaries for each meditation in the table of contents. [Read more…]
Saturate your library with the writings of Thomas Aquinas with Verbum’s Free Book of the Month and get two more Aquinas books for less than $8.
St. Thomas Aquinas, the “teacher of the church,” is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. His writings are both clear and profound; he is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. [Read more…]
St. Augustine’s The City of God is a true Christian classic. It is perhaps one of the most profound treatises on Christianity and government. In The City of God, St. Augustine envisions Christianity as a spiritual force, which should preoccupy itself with the heavenly city—the New Jerusalem—rather than on earthly municipal and state affairs.
If The City of God is not in your library, it should be. And since the first seven books are free this month, now’s the perfect time to add this philosophical and political masterpiece to your Verbum library and enjoy the benefits of reading the text with integrated Verbum functionality. [Read more…]
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Start the new year with new reading.
First, grab a free book, A Lexicon of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It’s a one-of-a-kind volume wherein Dr. Roy J. Deferrari analyzes every word in St. Thomas’ Summa Theologica and other works.
You can also add two more books for under $12: [Read more…]