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1265–1274 · Scholastic synthesis · 3 parts
Summa Theologiae
A disciplined inquiry into sacred doctrine, God, creation, human action, Christ, and the sacraments.
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Dominican tradition
The Dominican family joins common life, liturgical prayer, study, preaching, and Marian devotion so that truth contemplated may be handed on to others.
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c. 1377–1378 · Mystical theology · 4 treatises
The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
A vast mystical dialogue on providence, discretion, prayer, the bridge of Christ, reform, and obedience.
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14th century · English selection 1905 · Correspondence · selected letters
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
Prayer made active in counsel to family, religious, rulers, popes, and friends across a divided Church.
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1840 · English translation 1883 · Devotional biography
Life of Saint Dominic
A nineteenth-century Dominican restoration reads the founder’s life as a summons to preaching, poverty, and apostolic freedom.
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1901 · Pastoral and confraternity manual · 3 parts
The Rosary Guide for Priests and People
A Dominican manual of scriptural meditation, mental and vocal prayer, confraternity life, and practical methods of saying the Rosary.
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1901 · Hagiographical collection
Short Lives of the Dominican Saints
A wide devotional map of friars, nuns, sisters, and lay saints within the Dominican family.
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c. 1263 · English edition 1841 · Patristic biblical commentary · Gospel harmony
Catena Aurea: St. Matthew
Aquinas arranges patristic commentary into a continuous exposition of the Gospel of Matthew.
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13th century · English selection 1914 · Spiritual theology · selected questions
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life
A Dominican selection from the Summa on religion, devotion, prayer, and the active and contemplative lives.
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1918 · Spiritual theology · 24 meditations
The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul
A clear Dominican guide to divine indwelling, grace, the gifts, and the dignity of the Christian soul.
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1914 · Social history · 7 chapters
Mediaeval Socialism
A historical study of medieval property, guilds, schoolmen, lawyers, reformers, and almsgiving.
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1921 · Institutional history
The English Dominicans, 1221–1921
Seven centuries of Dominican life in England, written for the province’s founding anniversary.
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1926 · Catholic social essays
The Church and the Land
Essays connecting land, household economy, labor, property, and Christian moral responsibility.
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1556 · English edition 1883 · Spiritual and moral instruction
The Sinner’s Guide
A sustained call to conversion through the motives for virtue, the danger of sin, grace, and practical amendment of life.
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14th century · English translation 1865 · Mystical autobiography
The Life of Blessed Henry Suso
A Dominican mystical life shaped by Eternal Wisdom, discipline, suffering, friendship, and spiritual instruction.
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1552 · English translation 1689 · Historical testimony and moral protest
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
An urgent eyewitness indictment of conquest, enslavement, and violence against Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
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1497 · English edition 1901 · Apologetic theology · 4 books
The Triumph of the Cross
A four-book defense of God, Christian faith, Christ, and the Church from a controversial Dominican preacher.
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