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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: Ladislaus on May 14, 2025, 01:10:04 PM
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So, I found a place online that will reprint a lot of old out-of-print Latin textbooks. They're out of India.
https://www.gyanbooks.com/
I went ahead and ordered the "Premium" edition of Hugon's Cursus Philosophiae Thomisticae, Volume I: Logica in the "Super-Deluxe" version, just to sample them. This might be a great resource for Traditional Catholic seminaries. They have versions from eBook to Paperback, Hardbound, Deluxe (partial leather binding), and Super-Deluxe (full leather).
So I got the Hugon in Green, Super-Deluxe. Appears to be very good quality thus far. Now, the text is a bit blurry here and there, since it's obviously printed from some digital copy of an old text that they got a hold of somewhere, but not bad at all. One issue I have is that they did not print the Volume # and the Volume Title on the binding. Just says "Cursus Philosophiae Thomisticase" -- "Hugon" on the cover. Well, if I get all 4 volumes, I'd have no way to tell them apart without opening the cover, if they were on a bookshelf or something. So I'm trying to work that out with them. If we can fix that issue, I'll probably try to order a complete set of books. Thomistic Philosphy, Moral Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Pastoral Theology, etc. ... for the day when all such "digital" material might be scrubbed of we get EMPed etc.
It appeared to take them about a week to print the volume, and then another one to get it shipped over to me. So I think it took about 2 weeks total to get the book.
In any case, for Philosophy I do like Hugon. He's solid, and has an endorsement from St. Pius X in the inside cover. Are there others people think highly of? for the "Cursus Philosophiae" volumes?
Then, for Moral Theology. I know that some seminaries have used Merkelbach, but not 100% sure if he's the best or just what they had available. Any thoughts on a Seminary / Manual - type Moral Theology series? After that, I would look at Dogmatic Theology. For that, Tanquerey seems good ... but open to opinions.
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MHTS's curriculum (https://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=61) is good.
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Gredt seems to be often overlooked.
https://archive.org/details/elementa-philosophiae-aristotelico-thomisticae-i-gredt/Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae%20I%20-%20Gredt/page/n1/mode/2up
https://gyanbooks.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=1111024924803&Book=Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae.%20Auctore%20Iosepho%20Gredt.%20(v.1)
https://gyanbooks.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=1111024924804&Book=Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae.%20Auctore%20Iosepho%20Gredt.%20(v.2)
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Thanks Lad, will check out these Indian Latin publications. I also found The Etymologies of St. Isidore of Seville: Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007 W J Lewis Stephen A Barney / The etymologies of Isidore of Seville 2007. The etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Title: The etymologies of Isidore of Seville. The first complete English translation of Isidore's Etymologies, a 7th century encyclopedia of the late classical world.
If anyone can find a copy at a reasonable price let me know.
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how do they get the original copies to print?
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how do they get the original copies to print?
I have no idea. I'll ask them one of these days, but they have a huge collection of stuff.
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MHTS's curriculum (https://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=61) is good.
Thanks. Very interesting that their dogmatic theology is quite eclectic. They do use Hugon for Philosophy, but then it's a blend of Hugon, Garrigou, and St. Thomas for dogmatic. Then Merkelbach for moral. That's where I was inclined myself, and this confirms my insintincts. Thanks for posting this.
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Gredt seems to be often overlooked.
https://archive.org/details/elementa-philosophiae-aristotelico-thomisticae-i-gredt/Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae%20I%20-%20Gredt/page/n1/mode/2up
https://gyanbooks.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=1111024924803&Book=Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae.%20Auctore%20Iosepho%20Gredt.%20(v.1)
https://gyanbooks.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=1111024924804&Book=Elementa%20philosophiae%20Aristotelico-Thomisticae.%20Auctore%20Iosepho%20Gredt.%20(v.2)
Yes, it looks like MHT seminary throws in a bit of Gredt at the tail end of their philosophy curriculum. I'll have a look at him also.
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I'm also slowly trying to pick up hard copies of other things that I just got used to looking at online, since one possible future involves potentially shutting down the internet, or at least restricting it to those who have high social credit scores (which won't be I), or eliminating some stuff they deem offensive, not PC, terroristic, or whatnot.