Including systematic works and works defending Romanism.
These are here as primary source references.
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Order of Contents Chronological Order
English 12+
Latin 3
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In English
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Medieval Church
Thomas of Aquinas d. 1274
Summa Theologica in English, HTML PDF (4,183 pp., with an extended table of contents)
Volumes:
1 Introductions, Existence & Attributes of God
2 Trinity, Creation, Cause of Evil
3 Angels, the Six Days of Creation
4 Man, the Will, Understanding, Propagation
5 Divine Government, Angels, Human Propagation
6 Chief End of Man, the Human Will, Passions
7 Habits, Virtues, Sin, Original Sin
8 Law, Kinds of Law, Grace, Merit
9 Faith, Unbelief, Love, Vices
10 Prudence, Justice
11 Devotion, Oaths, Superstition
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13 Temperance, Vices Opposite to
14 Of Prophecy, Tongues, Miracles, the Contemplative Life, States of Life
15 The Incarnation
16 Mary, Virgin Birth, Christ’s Life, Death, Resurrection
17 The Sacraments
18 Sacraments, Power of the Keys
19 Abode of the Dead, Resurrected Bodies
20 The Last Things
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22 Indexes)
Thomas Aquinas in English, a Bibliography with references and links to all of Thomas’ writings in English
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1500’s
Various – Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600 1901
Richard Bristow – A Reply to Fulke, in defense of M.D. Allen’s Scroll of Articles and book of Purgatory 1580
Fulke was an English reformer.
Burne, Nicol –The Disputation Concerning the Controversial heads of Religion, held in the Realm of Scotland in 1580 1581
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1600’s
Bellarmine, Robert 1542-1621
An Ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine 1604
A Short Catechism 1614 116 pages
Anderton, Lawrence
The Protestants’ Apology for the Roman Church, Divided Into Three Several Tracts 1608
Becanus, Martinus – A Defence of the Roman Church. Wherein is Treated Whether the said Church of Rome has fallen in faith, or no? 1612
Binet, Etienne – Purgatory Surveyed, or, a particular account of the happy, and yet thrice unhappy, state of the souls there d. 1639
Altham, Michael
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1700’s
Bossuet, Jacques d. 1704
An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Matters of Controversy
History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches, vols. 1, 2
By laying out the various differences of Protestantism and its said ignoble history, Bossuet intends to show its falsehood.
A Treatise of Communion under Both Species
‘Both species’ refers to both bread and wine.
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1800’s
Arnauld, Antoine – The Perpetuity of the Faith of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist: With the Refutation of the Reply of a Calvinistic Minister 1834
Denzinger, Henry
The Sources of Catholic Dogma (d. 1883; 1957)
Enchiridion Symbolorum: Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals (d. 1883; 1911)
Scheeben, Matthias – Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics trans. Miller Buy (d. 1888; 2019) multiple volumes
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1900’s
Wilhelm, Joseph & Thomas Scannell – A Manual of Catholic Theology: Based on Scheeben’s ‘Dogmatik’, vols. 1 & 2 (1906/1908) Also here.
Pohle, Joseph – Manual Of Dogmatic Theology, 12 vols. ed. Arthur Preuss (1911-1920)
1. God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes
2. The Divine Trinity: A Dogmatic Treatise
3. God: The Author of Nature and the Supernatural
4. Christology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Incarnation
5. Soteriology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Redemption
6. Mariology: A Dogmatic Treatise on the Blessed Virgin Mary
7. Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise
8. The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, vol. 1
9. The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, vol. 2
10. The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, vol. 3
11. The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, vol. 4
12. Eschatology, or the Catholic Doctrine of the Last Things: A Dogmatic Treatise
Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Reginald
Reality: a Synthesis of Thomistic Thought (St. Louis, 1950) No ToC
Commentaries on St. Thomas’s Summa Theologica Buy multiple volumes
Ott, Ludwig – Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (St. Louis, 1955) First published in German in 1952
Niesel, Wilhelm – Pt. 1, ‘The Gospel & Roman Catholicism’ in Reformed Symbolics: a Comparison of Catholicism, Orthodoxy & Protestantism tr. David Lewis (Oliver & Boyd, 1962), pp. 169-303
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In Latin
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1600’s
Petavius, Dionysius – Work of Theological Dogmatics, 8 vols. (1864-70) d. 1652
Petavius (1583-1652) was a French Jesuit. “A huge collection of the sentiments of the fathers, lucidly arranged.” – Howard Malcom
Arsdekin, R.P. Richard – Universal Theology in Three Parts, Now Completing a Perfect Library for the Churchman, following the order: Book 1, Of Controversies, Heterodoxies & Scholastica; Book 2, Part 1, A Brief & Whole, Comprehensive Method of Speculative Theology; Part 2, Universal Practical Theology; Book 3, A Practical Apparatus for Every Function of the Churchman Going Forward 10th ed. 1693 Each of the three books have separate pagination: 195 pp., 400 pp., 232 pp. Here are the tables of contents for the three books, which are at the beginning of each book: 1, 2, 3
Arsdekin (1618–1693) was Irish and a professor of theology for Jesuits. “Archdekin’s work displays much order, knowledge, and precision, but some of his decisions in cases of conscience have been controverted by higher authority in the catholic church.” – DNB
“Held in great esteem by Romanists, and truly valuable as a great magazine of authorities. ” – Howard Malcom (graduate from Old Princeton Seminary)
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1800’s
Migne, Jaques Paul – A Complete Course of Theology, 28 vols. (Paris: 1837-45)
The purpose of Migne (1800-75), a French priest, was to collect in one series a comprehensive course in Roman Catholic theology. Many or most of the authors are from the Early and Medieval Church and are arranged roughly in the order of a systematic theology; hence the importance and great value of this massive work.
Migne was also the editor of the important Patrologia Graeca & Latina series.
Denzinger, Henry – Enchiridion Symbolorum: Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals (d. 1883; 1911) ToC
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