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Fr. Augustine Thompson’s Publications

Fr. Augustine Thompson’s Publications

Books

Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars. Chicago: New Priory Press, 2017.

Francis of Assisi: A New Biography. Ithaca NY: Cornell Univ. Press, May 2012.

Ad Completorium Liturgiae Horarum secundum Usum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum. Oakland, CA: Provincia Ss. Nominis Jesu Ordinis Praedicatorum, 2010. (Liturgical Music).

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325. University Park PA: Penn State Univ. Press, 2005. Winner of the ACHA Howard R. Marraro Prize for best book published in Italian history, 2006.

Revival Preachers and Politics: The Great Devotion of 1233. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.

John Williamson Nevin. The Mystical Presence: A Vindication of the Reformed or Calvinist Theology of the Holy Eucharist, edited by Augustine Thompson. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2000.

John Williamson Nevin. The Anxious Bench; Antichrist; and the Sermon Catholic Unity, edited by Augustine Thompson. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock, 2000.

Juried Articles

“Civil and Religious Subsidiary in the Italian Republics, 1160-1300.” In Subsidiarity: Origins, Development, and Applications, edited by William E. Fahey. Ypsilanti, MI: Sapientia Press (forthcoming).

“The Dominican Liturgy and Vatican II, 1962-1969.” Antiphon, 16 (2012).

“Preconciliar Reforms of the Dominican Rite Liturgy, 1950-1962.” Antiphon, 15 (2011): 185-201.

“The Origins of Religious Mendicancy in Medieval Europe.” In The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies, edited by Donald S. Prudlo, 3-30. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2011.

Invited Publications

“The First Witch Trial in Italy: Todi, 1428.” In Medieval Italy: A Documentary History, edited by Katherine L. Jansen et al., 203-16. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

“Lay versus Clerical Perceptions of Heresy: Protests against the Inquisition in Bologna, 1299.” In Praedicatores Inquisitores, 1: The Dominicans and the Medieval Inquisition: Acts of the First International Seminar on the Dominicans and the Inquisition, Rome 23-25, February 2002, 701-730. Rome: Istituto Storico Domenicano, 2004.

“From Texts to Preaching: Retrieving the Medieval Sermon as an Event.” In Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, edited by Carolyn Muessig, 13-37. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002.

“Pour une compréhension théologique de la spiritualité américaine.” Nova et Vetera, 74 (1999), 57–75; Italian version forthcoming. English text available on request.

“Jean de Vicence, dominicain italien (XIIIe s.)” Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 27 (1999), 772–73.

“Le tentazioni di un predicatore nella vita del beato Ambrogio Sansedoni.” Bollettino di San Domenico, 67 (1986), 145–50.

Translations and Editions

Translation: The Medieval Canon Law of Marriage: The Decretum and the Liber Extra. Edited and translated with John T. Noonan, Jr. Oakland: Dominican Liturgy Publications, 2015.

Edition: Janko Zagar. Acting On Principles: A Thomistic Perspective on Making Moral Decisions. Eugene OR: Wiph and Stock, 2010.

Liturgical Music: Antiphonarium pro Liturgia Horarum iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedicatorum. 5 vols. [Electonically published]: Vol. 1: “Tempus Adventus–Tempus Nativitatis”: http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/a1.pdf. Vol. 2: “Tempus Quadragesimae et Hebdomadae Sanctae,”: http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/a2a.pdf. Vol. 3: “Tempus Paschale”: http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/a2b.pdf. Vol. 4: “Tempus Per Annum I”: http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/a3.pdf. Vol. 5: “Tempus Per Annum II”: http://www.musicasacra.com/dominican/a4.pdf. Project completed and made electronically available in September 2010.

Edition: John Williamson Nevin, The Mystical Presence: A Vindication of the Reformed or Calvinist Theology of the Holy Eucharist (Eugene OR: Wiph & Stock, 2000).

Edition republished as Volume 1 of the Mercersburg Theology Study Series, ed. Linden J. DeBie and W. Bradford Littlejohn (Eugene OR: Wiph & Stock, 2012)

Edition: John Williamson Nevin, The Anxious Bench; Antichrist; and the Sermon Christian Unity (Eugene OR: Wiph & Stock, 1999)

Translation: Gratian: Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1–20); With the Ordinary Gloss. With James Gordley. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1994.

Book Reviews

I have reviewed 30 books (list available on request). Reviews appeared in: American Historical Review, Blackfriars, Catholic Historical Review, Church History, Church History and Religious Culture, First Things, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Religious Studies Review, Speculum, Studia Canonica, Theological Studies.

Publications as General Editor at Dominican Liturgy Publications

All publications are available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/athompsonatdsptdotcom

Propers of the Office for the Order of Preachers. 4. rev. and enlarged ed. of Proprium Officiorum Ordinis Praedicatorum (1983). Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2018. Also published in a pocket-sized version.

Compline According to the Use of the Order of Preachers. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017.

Ad Completorium iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedicatorum. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017.

Hedomada Sancta Pro Liturgia Horarum Iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedicatorum. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017.

Lectionary for the Order of Preachers. Proper of the Order of Preachers. 2d ed. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017. Also published in a smaller “Chapel Edition.”

Missal for the Order of Preachers. Proper of the Order of Preachers. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017. Also published in a smaller “Chapel Edition.”

The Saint Dominic Missal (1959). Volume I: Seasons of the Year; Volume II: Saints and Votive Masses. Reprinted, 2017.

Vesperale ex Liturgia Horarum iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedictorum. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2017.

Formularium Absolutionum et Benedictionum ad Usum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum (1939). Reprinted, 2017. Also published in smaller pocket edition.

Cantus Passionis D. N. J. C. secundum Matthaeum, secundum Marcum, secondum Lucam, et secundum Joannem. New edition, with the Passions of Mark and Luke newly set to the Dominican Tones by Augustine Thompson O.P. 2016.

Cura Infirmorum: Care of the Sick in the Dominican Rite. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2015.

Cantus Lectionum Missarum pro Dominicis et Festis Maioribus iuxta Notam Regualae Cantus O.P. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P., 2014.

Epistles and Gospels of the Year According to the Dominican Rite. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P. 2012; 2d ed. 2013.

Lectionary for Masses Proper to the Order of Preachers. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P. 2012; 2d. ed. 2013.

Bonniwell, William R. Dominican Ceremonial for Mass and Benediction (1946). Reprinted 2012.

Graduale Iuxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum (1950). Reprinted 2012.

Cantica Evangelica Secundum Cantum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P. 2012.

Kyriale Iuxta Ritum Ordinis Praedicatorum. Reprinted from Graduale Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum (1950). 2012.

Collectarium: A Manual for Hebdomadarians. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P. 2012

The Ordinary of the Mass According the the Dominican Rite: Latin—English. Ed. Augustine Thompson, O.P. 2011.

Dominican Altar Boys’ Manual According to the Rite of the Order of Preachers: Compiled from the Dominican Ceremonial (1945). Reprinted 2011.

Tonorum Communium Regulae Iuxta Ritum Ordinis Praedicatorum (1965). Reprinted 2011.

Libellus Precum ad Usum Fratrum S. Ordinis Praedicatorum (1952). Reprinted 2011.

Ad Completorium Liturgiae Horarum secundum Usum Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum. Ed. Augustine Thompson O.P. 2010. Text with Music. Also published in a shorter paperback form as an “Editio Economica.”

Web Activity

Editor, Dominican Liturgy founded Nov. 16, 2008 (581,578 visits as of 9/11/18). Articles are indexed at the site.

Contributing Editor, New Liturgical Movement, since Aug. 16, 2007. Articles are indexed at the site.

Other Publications

Occasional essay: “The Truth about Halloween.” Catholic Parent, 3.2 (Sept./Oct. 1995), 49–51; reprinted in many other periodicals and newspapers.

Topical essay: “The Pope, the Emperor, and the First Amendment.” First Things, 25 (Aug./Sept. 1992), pp. 11–14.