ePub The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century by C.C. Colbert in History

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Since its inception in 1947; the Ancient Christian Writers series has become one of the world's premier patristic collections. Founded by the renowned scholars Johannes Quasten and Joseph Plumpe at The Catholic University of America; the series has grown to fifty-seven volumes over fifty years. Translations of the works of Augustine; Basil; Theodoret; Palladius; Chrysostom; Tertullian and; most recently; Justin Martyr are found amongst the thirty-six authors whose writings comprise the series. Widely recognized as the authoritative American patristic project; the Ancient Christian Writers series launches its second fifty years with the long-anticipated publication of John Cassian's The Conferences; translated and presented by Boniface Ramsey; O.P. The first complete translation into English of The Conferences; Ramsey's rendering of Cassian is the only extensively annotated edition since the seventeenth century. Included are introductory essays; notes and a useful series of indexes. Popular for centuries in both the East and West; this work will now be available to a wider audience of scholars; students and spiritual seekers. Anticipated in the next two years are John Cassian's The Institutes (completing the publication of his monastic and ascetical writings in the Ancient Christian Writers series); never-before-published correspondence of Popes Damasus and Liberius; as well as the catechumenate sermons of the North African; Quodvultdeus. As always; each volume will present the reader with a high quality English translation; notes and a scholarly introduction. The Ancient Christian Writers series is currently edited by well-known scholar and homilist Walter J. Burghardt; S.J.; John Dillon of Washington; D.C. and Dennis McManus of Paulist Press.