Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with the supreme significance which they attach to the work of the pulpit, have thus sought to magn...

Alexander Vinet (1797-1847) was a 19th century French-speaking Reformed Pastor, and seen by most scholars as a pastor’s pastor. This work is one of the most quoted volumes in the history of teaching ministers the science of homiletics. Homiletics is the study of sermon preparation and preaching the Word of God with boldness, faithfulness and precision. The office of the Evangelical Ministry consists of different elements, among which the Word of God has the predominance. The Christian reli...

The four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana, iv libri) are a compend of exegetical theology to guide the reader in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, according to the analogy of faith. The first three books were written ad 397; the fourth was added 426. It is the first and best patristic work on biblical Hermeneutics, and continued for a thousand years, together with the Prefaces of Jerome, to be the chief exegetical guide. Altho...

This edition of The Idea of a University comes complete with a Wyatt North Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each lecture.In 1854, at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops, John Henry Newman went to Dublin as rector of the newly established Catholic University of Ireland, now University College, Dublin. It was during this time that he founded the Literary and Historical Society. After four years, he retired. He published a volume of lectures entitled The Idea of a University.Jo...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Anti-Nicene Fathers Volume 3 includes work by Tertullian.

Collected here are fourty-two short essays, previously published as seven separate books, Councils and Maxims, On Human Nature, On Religion, Studies in Pessimism, The Art of Controversy, The Art of Literature, and The Wisdom of Life. This is the most complete collection available from the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

In Tragic Sense of Life, Miguel de Unamuno offers a passionate meditation on mortality, faith, reason, and the human longing for immortality. Written in a hybrid form that joins philosophical essay, theological reflection, and lyrical confession, the book resists systematic doctrine in favor of existential urgency. Situated between Kierkegaardian inwardness and the crises of early twentieth-century modernism, it argues that the deepest truth of human life lies not in rational certainty but...

Theodicy, in its most common form, is the attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. Theodicy attempts to resolve the evidential problem of evil by reconciling the traditional divine characteristics of omnibenevolence, The term was coined in 1710 by German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his work, Théodicée.

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. The Epistle To The Philippians stands associated with a most interesting event in the history of the progress of Christianity. While the charge given to the Apostles as to the universal promulgation of the Gospel was...

How God governs creation through Divine Providence is revealed in this book, and describes why the human race was created. Unlike the theory where creation is a machine which God just created in distant time, this book reveals that God is actively involved in all things that occur in this universe. There are many laws of Divine Providence which remain hidden from view from humanity. Much of the reason why the Divine Providence remains hidden from view is to preserve man's freedom of choice...