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About the Author
Matthias Joseph Scheeben
MATTHIAS JOSEPH SCHEEBEN (1835–1888) was a German priest and scholar whose theology points to the inner coherence of the Christian faith and its supernatural mysteries. Notable in his own time, Scheeben later received praise from Pope Pius XI, who in 1935 encouraged study of the late theologian’s works, reflecting: “The entire theology of Scheeben bears the stamp of a pious ascetical theology.” Hans Urs von Balthasar credited Scheeben as “the greatest German theologian to date.” Scheeben’s works include Nature and Grace, The Mysteries of Christianity, and the unfinished Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics.
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“The greatest single-volume dogmatics of the nineteenth century, Mysteries presents the Christian faith as a series of organically unfolding mysteries, springing from their Trinitarian root and flowering in the beatific vision. Students of theology will do well to apprentice themselves to this great master.”
Fr. Aaron Pidel, SJ
Marquette University / Pontifical Gregorian University
“Matthias Joseph Scheeben’s Mysteries of Christianity is one of the greatest and most important works of Catholic theology of the nineteenth century. In the early twenty-first century, a time replete with many forms of theological confusion, it is of urgent importance to continue reading the Mysteries. Being a classic of Catholic theology, the Mysteries do not grow old or cold, but speak to every subsequent age with the fullness of an unreduced Catholicity.”
Reinhard Huetter
The Catholic University of America
“The nineteenth century saw its share of theological masterpieces, but Matthias Scheeben’s The Mysteries of Christianity is the crowning achievement of the age, a masterful synthesis of the Bible, the Fathers, and the great scholastics. More than anything, though, Scheeben’s Mysteries is a modern classic of Christian spirituality and mysticism. It remains quite simply unrivalled and without peer as a model of what Catholic theology can be.”
R. Trent Pomplun
University of Notre Dame
“As Catholic theologians today labor to revive the long-dormant practice of dogmatic theology, we have no surer guide and goad than this great work of Scheeben. No single piece of Catholic theology since the Enlightenment brings together the virtues needed for dogmatic theology in quite the way Scheeben does here: intellectual rigor, reverence before the mysteries of the faith, and perception of the content and connections of those mysteries.”
Bruce D. Marshall
Southern Methodist University
“The greatest single-volume dogmatics of the nineteenth century, Mysteries presents the Christian faith as a series of organically unfolding mysteries, springing from their Trinitarian root and flowering in the beatific vision. Students of theology will do well to apprentice themselves to this great master.”
Fr. Aaron Pidel, SJ
Marquette University / Pontifical Gregorian University
“Matthias Joseph Scheeben’s Mysteries of Christianity is one of the greatest and most important works of Catholic theology of the nineteenth century. In the early twenty-first century, a time replete with many forms of theological confusion, it is of urgent importance to continue reading the Mysteries. Being a classic of Catholic theology, the Mysteries do not grow old or cold, but speak to every subsequent age with the fullness of an unreduced Catholicity.”
Reinhard Huetter
The Catholic University of America
“The nineteenth century saw its share of theological masterpieces, but Matthias Scheeben’s The Mysteries of Christianity is the crowning achievement of the age, a masterful synthesis of the Bible, the Fathers, and the great scholastics. More than anything, though, Scheeben’s Mysteries is a modern classic of Christian spirituality and mysticism. It remains quite simply unrivalled and without peer as a model of what Catholic theology can be.”
R. Trent Pomplun
University of Notre Dame
“As Catholic theologians today labor to revive the long-dormant practice of dogmatic theology, we have no surer guide and goad than this great work of Scheeben. No single piece of Catholic theology since the Enlightenment brings together the virtues needed for dogmatic theology in quite the way Scheeben does here: intellectual rigor, reverence before the mysteries of the faith, and perception of the content and connections of those mysteries.”
Bruce D. Marshall
Southern Methodist University
“The greatest single-volume dogmatics of the nineteenth century, Mysteries presents the Christian faith as a series of organically unfolding mysteries, springing from their Trinitarian root and flowering in the beatific vision. Students of theology will do well to apprentice themselves to this great master.”
Fr. Aaron Pidel, SJ
Marquette University / Pontifical Gregorian University
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