Early Modern Catholic Sources (4 vols.)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Scholars and students have been blessed with a wealth of patristic and medieval texts in translation, but the theological writings of early modern Catholicism are largely unknown, even to professional historians, philosophers, and theologians. Early Modern Catholic Sources provides translations of early modern Catholic texts of theological interest written largely between 1450 and 1800. Each volume includes a substantial scholarly introduction by the translator or translators.
The project of Early Modern Catholic Sources answers a pressing need. On the one hand, recent research has demonstrated the importance of 16th and 17th century theological works, not only for Church history, but for a whole range of fields: the history of political ideas, of economic thought, of international law, of sexuality etc. On the other hand, this enormous corpus remains barely read first hand, except by a handful of specialists.
—Jean-Louis Quantin, Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship at the Sorbonne
Early modern scholarship on philosophy and epistemology has suffered greatly due to lack of easy access by undergraduate and graduate students (and professors too) to annotated and contextualized translations of early-modern Catholic theologians. I applaud this initiative.
—Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
This series has the potential to make the kind of difference that the Sources Chretienne made in the 20th century. Given its long tradition of publishing The Fathers of the Church series, it is fitting the CUA Press will provide such a service to the Church’s theological memory.
—Michael Root, Professor of Systematic Theology, The Catholic University of America