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Free Download Paul Freedman, "The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1501772228 | 2023 | 354 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia’s medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar’s books, essays, and transcriptions―some only recently discovered―provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation’s past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture.

Free Download Lydia Jaeger, "Ordinary Splendor: Living in God’s Creation"
English | ISBN: 1683596994 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB | 9 MB

Free Download Splendor of the Church By Henri de Lubac; Michael Mason
1999 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0898707420 | EPUB | 1 MB
Considered by many the bright jewel among the many enriching books of Cardinal Henri de Lubac, this work is a hymn to the beauty of the Church, under some of whose leaders for a time he unjustly suffered.The Splendor of the Churchis, in a sense, a personal testimony of the great theologian’s humility and love of the Church of Christ. It is also a classic work in the theology of the Church. Indeed, de Lubac’s profound insights significantly contributed to Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church,Lumen Gentium, especially in its treatment on the Church as mystery and as the Sacrament of Christ.