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Denis the Carthusian

The Opera Omnia of the Ecstatic Doctor: commentaries on all of Scripture, sermons, and treatises on prayer and contemplation, in his Latin.

Denis the Carthusian (1402–1471), monk of the charterhouse of Roermond, wrote more than any other medieval theologian: commentaries on the whole of Scripture, on the Areopagite, Boethius, Cassian, Climacus and the Sentences, a year of sermons, and some hundred and fifty treatises on prayer, contemplation and the Christian life. His raptures in prayer earned him the name Doctor Ecstaticus. This collection follows the forty-two tomes of the Montreuil–Tournai edition (1896–1913): every work in the thirty-nine tomes we could obtain, read from the scans. The works are being proofread against the scans one by one; a work not yet proofread says so in its description.

Commentaries on Holy Scripture

Denis commented on every book of the Bible, article by article, giving the literal sense and then the mystical. The commentaries fill the first fourteen tomes of the Montreuil edition. A commentary not yet proofread says so in its description: it is the OCR text as it came off the scans, so expect a misread word here and there.

The Historical Books

Commentary on Joshua Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Judges Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Ruth Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Samuel (1 Kings) Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Samuel (2 Kings) Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Kings (3 Kings) Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Kings (4 Kings) Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Chronicles Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Chronicles, with the Prayer of Manasseh Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Job Denis the Carthusian On Why Human Fortunes Differ Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Tobit Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Judith Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Esther Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Ezra Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Nehemiah (2 Ezra) Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Maccabees Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Maccabees Denis the Carthusian

The Prophets

Commentary on Isaiah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Jeremiah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Lamentations Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Baruch Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Ezekiel Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Daniel Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Hosea Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Joel Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Amos Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Obadiah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Jonah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Micah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Nahum Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Habakkuk Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Zephaniah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Haggai Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Zechariah Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Malachi Denis the Carthusian

The Epistles, Acts and the Apocalypse

Commentary on Romans Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Corinthians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Corinthians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Galatians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Ephesians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Philippians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Colossians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Thessalonians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Thessalonians Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Timothy Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Timothy Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Titus and Philemon Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Hebrews Denis the Carthusian Commentary on James Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 1 Peter Denis the Carthusian Commentary on 2 Peter Denis the Carthusian Commentary on the Letters of John Denis the Carthusian Commentary on Jude Denis the Carthusian Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles Denis the Carthusian Commentary on the Apocalypse Denis the Carthusian

On the Works of Dionysius the Areopagite

Denis's commentaries on the Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, the Divine Names, the Mystical Theology and the letters, printed beside the Latin versions of Eriugena, Sarracenus, Ambrogio Traversari and Ficino and the paraphrase of Thomas Gallus.

Theological Works

The summa of the faith Denis drew from St Thomas, a dialogue on the Catholic faith, and his commentary on the four books of Peter Lombard's Sentences.

On Boethius, Cassian and Climacus

Commentaries on three classics of the monastic library.

Sermons

Sermons for the Sundays and feasts of the whole year, many in two series, for lay people and for religious, with a commentary on each Sunday's epistle and gospel; and the Passion harmonized from the four Gospels.

Minor Works

Treatises, dialogues and letters on philosophy, God, the Mass, Our Lady, the states of life, the vices and virtues, prayer and contemplation, and the last things, tome by tome.

Tome XXXVII

The States of Life and the Religious Life

On Government Denis the Carthusian On the Praiseworthy Life of the Married Denis the Carthusian On the Praiseworthy Life of Widows Denis the Carthusian On the Praiseworthy Life of Virgins Denis the Carthusian Dialogues of Jesus with an Old Man and with a Boy Denis the Carthusian On the Reform of Religious Denis the Carthusian Dialogue on the Reform of Nuns Denis the Carthusian On the Life and End of the Solitary Denis the Carthusian In Praise of the Solitary Life Denis the Carthusian On the Life of Anchoresses Denis the Carthusian In Praise of the Carthusian Order Denis the Carthusian Commentary on the Third Rule of St Francis Denis the Carthusian On the Obedience Owed to Superiors Denis the Carthusian Exhortation to Novices Denis the Carthusian On Monastic Profession Denis the Carthusian

Tome XL

His Life