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Franzelin's De Ecclesia Christi, the posthumous 1887 Roman edition of his theses on the Church, with English translation. The biographical front matter and the Index thesium are not included.

Johannes Baptist Franzelin, S.J.'s Tractatus de Deo Trino secundum personas is a Roman-school dogmatic treatment of the Trinity, first published in Rome in 1869 and represented here by the fourth edition of 1895. Its forty-eight theses move from the unity of the divine nature and distinction of persons through the analogical concept of the mystery, the procession of the Holy Spirit, and the missions of the divine persons. Franzelin combines patristic and conciliar authorities with tightly structured scholastic argument, a method that made his treatises influential seminary texts and important background to nineteenth-century Catholic dogmatics. Schola presents the 1895 Latin edition with an English translation.

Johannes Baptist Franzelin's Tractatus de Deo uno secundum naturam treats the divine nature and attributes within nineteenth-century scholastic theology. The present digital edition follows the Rome 1870 print and includes the Latin text with an English translation. The title pages, approbations, errata, and indexes are omitted.

Franzelin's Tractatus de divina traditione et Scriptura (Romae, Ex Typographia Polyglotta S.C. de Propaganda Fide, 1882, editio tertia): the prolegomenon, the treatise on divine tradition with the scholion, the treatise on Scripture, and the dogmatic appendix. Latin from the 1882 edition, with a new English translation.

A History of the Councils of the Church, volume V, by the German church historian Karl Joseph von Hefele, continues his extensive documentary history of the great councils and synods of Christianity, covering the period from A.D. 626 to the close of the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. Published in English by T. & T. Clark, this volume opens with a detailed treatment of the Monothelite controversies, examining the theological and political circumstances that led to the dispute over the wills and operations of Christ, the roles of Emperor Heraclius, Sergius of Constantinople, Cyrus of Alexandria, Sophronius of Jerusalem, Pope Honorius I, and St. Maximus the Confessor, and the eventual resolution of the controversy at the Sixth Ecumenical Council. Hefele combines chronological narrative with close examination of conciliar acts, papal and patriarchal correspondence, patristic testimony, and earlier historical scholarship, frequently discussing conflicting sources and questions of authenticity or chronology. The volume ultimately carries the history of the councils through the ecclesiastical controversies of the seventh and eighth centuries to the Second Council of Nicaea, making it an important reference work for the study of Christological controversy, conciliar history, and the development of Christian doctrine in the early medieval period.

Dominicus Palmieri, S.J.'s Tractatus de gratia divina actuali (Gulpen, 1885) is a systematic Roman-school treatise on actual grace. After defining grace and its divisions, Palmieri examines its effects, necessity for fallen humanity, gratuitous character, efficacy, distribution, and relation to predestination, engaging Augustine, the Fathers, councils, Jansenism, and the scholastic disputes over physical predetermination. The sixty-two-thesis format exemplifies late nineteenth-century neo-scholastic dogmatic method: historical authorities are gathered into tightly argued theological conclusions. Schola presents the Latin work from the 1885 edition.

Christian Pesch’s first volume of Compendium theologiae dogmaticae (Freiburg im Breisgau: B. Herder, 1913). This incomplete volume currently contains the author’s Prooemium and Caput I, De religione in genere, of the preliminary inquiry into religion and revelation.

Francisco Marín-Sola, O.P.'s La evolución homogénea del dogma católico (Madrid–Valencia, 1923) is a large Spanish Dominican account of how Catholic doctrine can develop without becoming a different faith. Drawing on Aquinas and the wider scholastic tradition, it distinguishes homogeneous doctrinal growth from modernist or merely historical change and analyzes the role of theological inference, ecclesial teaching, and controversies about grace. The work became an important reference point in twentieth-century Thomist discussions of doctrinal development and remains a key primary witness to Spanish neo-scholastic theology. Schola presents Spanish and English texts from its documented source and translation arrangement; the copyrighted Sauras introductory essay is not included.

Volume I (De principiis) of Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach's Summa theologiae moralis sets out the foundations of Catholic moral theology within a Thomistic framework. It treats human acts, conscience, law, sin, and merit in relation to the canon law of its period. The present edition follows the Paris text published by Desclée de Brouwer in 1935 and includes the Latin text with an English translation. It comprises the first volume of the three-volume Summa.

Hilarin Felder, O.M.Cap.'s Apologeticae sive Theologiae Fundamentalis, Tomus I—Demonstratio Christiana—is the Christian-demonstration half of a two-volume Latin manual of fundamental theology. First published at Paderborn in 1920 and revised in the second edition of 1923, it presents a neo-scholastic case for the historical revelation of Christ and the credibility of Christianity, using Scripture, history, and theological argument for classroom formation. Felder's work belongs to the mature manual tradition that shaped Catholic apologetics before the mid-century renewal. Schola presents the 1923 Latin edition with an English translation.

Tomus II—Demonstratio Catholica—completes Hilarin Felder's Apologeticae sive Theologiae Fundamentalis by treating the Catholic Church as the historical bearer and interpreter of revelation. Published at Paderborn in 1920 (with the second-edition setting issued in 1923), it develops the marks, continuity, authority, and universality of the Church through biblical, historical, patristic, and scholastic argument. Read with Tomus I, it documents the structure of early twentieth-century Catholic fundamental theology and the apologetic priorities of the period. Schola presents the 1920 Latin edition with an English translation.

Introduction and bibliography by José Ángel García Cuadrado to Domingo Báñez's commentary on Summa Theologiae II-II, Q. 40. This is García Cuadrado's independent scholarly work, published separately from Báñez's commentary.

Independent scholarly introduction, notes, and bibliography by José Ángel García Cuadrado to Domingo Báñez’s commentary on Summa Theologiae I, q. 1. This is a separate Spanish-language work that comments on the corresponding question in Báñez’s commentary.