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Devotio Deliciosa: Denis the Carthusian on the Mass and the Eucharist

Devotio Deliciosa: Denis the Carthusian on the Mass and the Eucharist - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Denis the Carthusian, Andrew M. Greenwell (Translator), Andrew M. Greenwell (Editor)Publish date:1/13/2026Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Angelico PressISBN-13:9798892801683UPC:9798892801683Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Rituals & PracticeBook Topic:Catholic, Worship & LiturgySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SC00Z9G5JK

Devotio Deliciosa takes its title from the words Denis the Carthusian used to describe the highest form of Eucharistic devotion to which all Christians are called. This volume gathers, in English translation, all of Denis the Carthusian's writings on the Mass and the Eucharist. Included is the Dialogue on the Sacrament of the Altar, an exchange between a priest-understood as an idealized "everyman"-and Jesus Christ, the eternal High Priest and sacrificial Victim. In this dialogue, the Eucharist is explored in a conversational yet theologically rich manner, touching on nearly every aspect of its mystery, meaning, and effects. Also contained in this volume is Denis's Exposition on the Mass, a step-by-step commentary on the rites and prayers of the Sacrifice of the Mass. In addition, a brief Treatise on Frequent Communion, written in response to a correspondent's request, and six Eucharistic "sermons" present a concise synthesis of Denis's teaching. Though these sermons may never have been preached, they were clearly intended for reading and meditation and offer a more rhetorically and pedagogically accessible presentation of the same doctrine found in his other Eucharistic works.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Angelico PressISBN-13:9798892801683UPC:9798892801683Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Rituals & PracticeBook Topic:Catholic, Worship & LiturgySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SC00Z9G5JK
Denis the Carthusian: - For a monk cloistered for most of his life in a Charterhouse at Roermond, a city now in the Limburg province of the Netherlands-and a monk, moreover, bound by a strict discipline of silence-Denis the Carthusian (1402-1471) left a remarkably vivid and far-reaching legacy. Author of some 180 works arranged in forty-two volumes, he stands at the crossroads of the waning Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Informally regarded as a saint and honored with the title Doctor Ecstaticus, Denis, clothed outwardly in the rough woolen habit of the Carthusians, adorned his mind with a richly multicolored intellectual inheritance.He was above all a follower of Christ: an indefatigable commentator on Sacred Scripture (having written on every book of the Bible), a devoted student of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, a disciple of St. Bruno, founder of his order, an heir to the mystical theology attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a loyal follower of St. Thomas Aquinas, a friend and correspondent of the great polymath Nicholas of Cusa, and a defender of the controversial Augustinian mystic and fellow Lowlander, Blessed John of Ruusbroec. For centuries, the study of his philosophically and theologically encyclopedic works was considered indispensable: Qui Dionysium legit, nihil non legit-"He who reads Denis leaves nothing unread."
Publisher: Angelico Press

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