Selected Homilies

Richard Bollman, S.J., is a Jesuit priest living in Cincinnati. He works there in retreat and spiritual ministry, and assists with worship at Bellarmine Chapel where he was once pastor. Ordained in 1969, he served also at the University of San Francisco through 1979, and as Director of the Jesuit Renewal Center in Milford until 1991. “And finally you’re free, you’re new, different from where you were, and life itself starts to lead you, spreading out before you.”

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life This compilation contains the following writings: Contents: Treatise on the Priesthood. An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall. Letter to a Young Widow. Homilies on S. Ignatius and S. Babylas. Concerning Lowliness of Mind. Instructions to Catechumens Three Homilies Concerning the Power of Demons. Against Marcionists and Manichaeans. Homily on the Paralytic Let Down Through the Roof. Homily Against Publishing the Errors of the Brethren. On Eutropius, Patrician and Consul. A Treatise to Prove that No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself Letters to Olympias. Correspondence of St. Chrysostom with the Bishop of Rome Homilies Concerning the Statues.

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A selection from the sermons of the most popular preacher of the English Reformation. The only edition of the sermons now in print, this volume contains a chronological table of Latimer's life and an introduction outlining his reformist ideas and the steps which led to his martyrdom.

This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter McCullough, a leading expert on religious writing in the early modern period, presents fourteen complete sermons and lectures preached by Andrewes across the whole range of his adult career, from Cambridge in the 1580s to the court of James I and VI in the 1620s. Through a radical reassessment of Andrewes's life, influence, and surviving texts, the editor presents Andrewes as his contemporaries saw, heard, and read him, and as scholars are increasingly recognizing him: one of the most subtle, yet radical critics of mainstream Elizabethan Protestantism, and a literary artist of the highest order. The centuries-old influence of William Laud's authorized edition of Andrewes (1629) is here complicated and contextualized by the full use for the first time of the whole range of Andrewes's works printed before and after his lifetime, as well as manuscript sources. The edition also showcases the aesthetic brilliance of Andrewes's remarkable prose, and suggests new ways for scholars to carry forward the modern literary appreciation of Andrewes famously begun by T. S. Eliot. A full introductory essay sets study of Andrewes on a new footing by placing his works in the context of his life and career, surveying the history of responses to his writings, and summarizing the history of the transmission of his texts. The texts here are edited to high modern critical standards. The exhaustive commentary sets each selection in its historical context, documents Andrewes's myriad sources, glosses important and unfamiliar words and allusions, and translates his frequent quotations from the ancient Biblical languages.