A Protestant Walks Into a Catholic Bookstore...Book Haul!

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[BryanM.R.-prionic]

You and your bookish Catholic slumming! I understand though; I longingly eye Orthodoxy on occasion. 🤭

But anyhow, Ignatius is great, and Ratzinger left a great deal of rigorous but clearly structured writing. Ain't always so with popes in my dirt farming opinion.

My reading has fallen by the wayside thanks to double caregiving duties and an imminent harvest season, but thanks for some vicarious book thrills. Enjoy the books and have a nice week!

[strangementalitypaperYT]

I grew up ELCA. Catholic lite is a perfect description!!

[helencheckley]

Wow wonderful and beautiful books. Enjoy your reading peg ❤😊

[auntdeesbooks]

🤣🤣*NICE* title of the video!! Ignatius Press, Sophia Institute Press, Ave Maria Press....they have gotten a LOT of my money over the years. Nice haul! Shout out to Daisy for staying mellow for the recording!

[joaopedroribeiro]

Well done. Great book haul. Keep up the good work.

[christinaalvarez]

Wonderful video and haul!! Added a bunch to my TBR! Thank you!! 🥳

[Lu.G.]

Oh my goodness...so many wonderful books! I had to put Holy Men and Women from BVI on my Amazon Wishlist. 🤓 I love that you turned to St. Thérèse and told us about your mom; St. Thérèse was my Confirmation Saint. 😊 I'm also interested in the Anthony Esolen books. His is the only translation of Dante's Divine Comedy that I've read (so far). He's also getting ready to release a new translation of St. Augustine's Confessions (which I have yet to read 🙄). Thanks for sharing! 😀

[GraceMed]

I've had my eye on Michael O'Brien's books for a while, but have as of yet to read any. However, now that you shared that bio info/book, and it's his art on the covers of his books, AND he's Canadian (like me lol), I'm definitely ordering his books now! He sounds like a fascinating spiritual person, so I'm really interested in his works for that reason.

[johncrwarner]

When I was on a kick of exploring medieval mysticism
and then at a different period Greek patristics
mostly because I had a role in an interfaith forum
I ended up once chatting to a Russian Orthodox Bishop
about Saint Maximus the Confessor
and the fatness / thinness of God / man
over tea and biscuits after listening to a variety of prayers
including Muslim and evangelical Baptist extemporised prayer.

Have you read about Vatican II
I think "The Rhine flows into the Tiber"
was an eye opener that for example
Joseph Ratzinger was a theological adviser
to one of the German bishops
on the progressive side of the council.

When I was in Regensburg in 2013
the last year of Joseph Ratzinger's papacy
and a university very much associated with his theological work
he was an early member of its theology department
and, I think, vice-regent at some point
I remember going into the Dombuchhandlung
(cathedral bookshop)
and there was a huge theology section
(I think it served as the university bookshop in terms of theology at least)
and it is the only theology section
where I have found Nietzsche
not one or two books critical of his writing
but a whole section
(I suspect there was a course on Nietzsche and Theology at the university)
but it felt very academic and the really deep technical theology.
I feel that is definitely the style of Ratzinger's theology and thinking
and why he retired as he knew intellectually he was failing.

[susprime]

The more catholic lite the Lutherans stay the better, it is those that want to be non-traditional and trying to make everyone else one too, making comments about finding the liturgical service so cold (then why did you join one) and then on to their "personal" relationship, like the rest of us don't have one, that set my teeth on edge. God bless their hearts, I'm not always so good about turning the other cheek, as Luther believed, we are saved by grace alone, dark hearted sinners, all of us. Shout out to St Louis University, alma (haha) mater of family members. Our family reunions are like ecumenical gatherings, fine by me. Good choice of video name, witty.😊

[tjw]

Great haul! Peter Seewald's interviews with Pope Benedict XVI are fantastic as well. Enjoy!

[knittingbooksetc.]

You are the Queen of Hauls. Pope Benedict was a genius.
St. Dominic was the founder of the order of the Dominicans.

[NicholasOfAutrecourt]

Matteo Ricci! I hadn't heard about him for a while. I've only read about book about him, Jonathan Spence's "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" which I remember really liking. I'm sure you already know Spence, but he's one of my go-to authors for early modern China.