Sermon at the annual Dudleian lecture, May 13th, 1772

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 108-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Benjamin Stevens on May 13, 1772 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Heb. 1:1, 2. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The cover page is no longer attached.

A discourse on natural religion: delivered in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, September 5, 1787

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 35-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Simeon Howard on September 5, 1787 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Acts 17:28. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The covers are no longer with the item. The lecture was not printed.

A discourse on natural religion: delivered in the chapel of the University in Cambridge, September 3r, 1795, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esqr

The hand-sewn notebook contains a manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Thomas Barnard on September 3, 1795 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Acts 14-57. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The covers are no longer with the item.

Modell Deutschland as an Interdenominational Compromise, CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 00.3, 2000

Usually, Germany’s social market economy is understood to embody a compromise between a liberal market order and a corporatist welfare state. While this reading of the German case is certainly not entirely wrong, this paper argues that only if we account for the close intellectual correspondence between lutheran Protestantism and economic liberalism on the one hand and between Catholicism and welfare corporatism on the other, can we fully comprehend the nature of the German post-war compromise. In particular, this perspective allows to better explain the anti-liberal undercurrents of Germany’s soziale Marktwirtschaft. It was especially the role which Protestant Ordoliberals ascribed to the state in upholding economic order and market discipline which accounts for the major difference between ‘classic’ and ‘German-style’ economic liberalism. Yet, the postwar economic order did not represent a deliberately struck compromise between the two major Christian denominations. Rather, Germany’s social market economy was the result of the failure of German Protestant Ordoliberals to prevent the reconstruction of the catholic Bismarckian welfare state after the authoritarian solution, which Ordoliberals had endorsed so strongly up until 1936 and from which they had hoped the re-inauguration of Protestant hegemony, had so utterly failed. Since the ordoliberal doctrine up to the present day lacks a clear understanding of the role of the corporatist welfare state within the German political economy, its insights into the functioning logic of German capitalism have remained limit. The paper also claims that accounting for the denominational roots of the postwar compromise allows us to better understand the relationship between consociationalism and corporatism in ‘Modell Deutschland’.

The Catholic Question in Contemporary Portuguese Civil Society: A Case of Muted Vibrancy? CES Papers - Open Forum #14, 2012

The ‘Catholic question’ in contemporary Portugal obliges us to consider whether Catholicism will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the next century, or whether it faces a future of slow and steady decline. On the one hand, an overall statistical drop of church membership, and the lack of religious practice by almost half of self-identified Roman Catholics, suggests that the future of the Catholic Church in Portugal will probably be very different than the past. On the other hand, the church’s support for democratic processes, the important social services it provides, and its educational establishment, have certainly been a positive factor in Portuguese associational life, and helped the larger process of democratic-regime consolidation since the Carnation Revolution of 1974. This paper suggests that social scientists need to move beyond the lens normally applied to the question of Catholicism in contemporary Europe (i.e. it is a dying, anti-modern, anti-rational, conservative institution), and instead consider the complex interplay of its demographic challenges combined with the popular sources of its theological and spiritual strength, as well as its vital societal contributions, to assess whether or not it will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the future.

Essays,

A Jesuit reformer and poet [F. [Spee] (19th cent., August, 1885)--Revelations of the after-world (19th cent., February, 1887)--Savonarola (The Weekly register, September, 1899)--M. Emery, superior of St. Sulpice (1789-1811) (Dub. R., October, 1887)--Auricular confession.--The pope and the Anglican archbishops (19th cent., July, 1897)--Ritualism, Roman Catholicism, and converts (Contemp., February, 1879)--On certain ecclesiastical miracles (19th cent., August 1891)--Irresponsible opinion (Macmil., March, 1885)--The ethics of war (19th cent., May 1899)--The passion of the past (Macmil., September, 1887)--Some memories of a prison chaplain (Macmil., February, 1898)--Purcell's life of Cardinal Manning.--Appendix: Some notes on Fr. Ryder's controversy with Dr. Ward.

The finality of Christ, and other sermons,

The economics of the Incarnation -- The discovery of God in thought -- Evolution and the fall -- Christ as a school of culture -- The necessity for re-education -- The necessity of confession -- The revival of catholicism -- The inconstancy of human goodness -- The quest for God -- The final hope for every man -- The psychology of hate -- The finality of Christ.

A pure Christianity the world's only hope /

Mode of access: Internet.

Short studies on great subjects,

[Ser. 1] The science of history. Times of Erasmus & Luther. The influence of the reformation on the Scottish character. The philosophy of Catholicism. A plea for the free discussion of theological difficulties. Criticism & the gospel history. The Book of Job. Spinoza. The dissolution of the monasteries. England's forgotten worthies. Homer. The lives of the saints. Representative men. Reynard the fox. The cat's pilgrimage. Fables: I. The lions & the oxen. II. The farmer & the fox. Parable of the breadfruit tree. Compensation.

The mysteries of popery unveiled, in the unparalleled sufferings of John Coustos, at the Inquisition of Lisbon.

"A sketch of the lives of the Popes of Rome, and their succession": p. [279]-300.

Report of the first Anglo-Catholic Congress, London, 1920 /

Published for the Committee of the Congress.

Loyola: and Jesuitism in its rudiments,

Mode of access: Internet.

Characteristics from the writings of John Henry Newman : being selections personal, historical, philosophical, and religious, from his various works /

Includes index.

A discourse on the duty of sustaining the laws occasioned by the burning of the Ursuline Convent : delivered at the First Church in Medford, Sunday, August 24, 1834 /

"Published by request."

Trial of John R. Buzzell : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for arson and burglary in the Ursuline Convent at Charlestown.

Mode of access: Internet.