Book Five - Volume 8 The Sacraments Part 1 & Volume 9 The Sacraments Part 2- 752 pages Cloth hardcover Many Catholics living today can remember when priests were well trained in theology and could express the Faith properly in their sermons and in their writing. That is because they were given sound teaching at the seminary in Logic, Philosophy, and Dogmatic Theology from textbooks such as this 12 volume set. The famous Pohle-Preuss manual was used in many seminaries in America and other countries prior to the 1950's when seminary training began to go downhill. This particular manual was used in the Jesuit seminary where Fr. Leonard Feeney, who was one called by his Jesuit superior "the greatest theologian we have in America...by far" was trained. This beautiful hardbound series is an exact reproduction of the edition originally published in 1911, and it was written by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Pohle an edited by Arthur Preuss. Joseph Pohle was a Jesuit and one of the founding faculty members of the Catholic University of America as well as a frequent contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia. He died in 1922 after having produced one of the clearest and most succinct and useful systematic studies of Catholic theology ever published. This series is invaluable for priests, seminarians, and anyone interested in a systematic study of dogmatic theology. The original publication was in 12 separte volumes. Loreto has re-issued the complete se of 12 volumes in six books. The six books may be purchased individually or as a set. BOOK ONE Volume 1 - God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes BOOK TWO Volume 2 - The Divine Trinity Volume 3 - God: The Author of Nature and the Supernatural BOOK THREE Volume 4 - Christology Volume 5 - Soteriology Volume 6 - Mariology BOOK FOUR Volume 7 - Grace: Actual and Habitual BOOK FIVE Volume 8 - The Sacraments - Part 1 Volume 9 - The Sacraments - Part 2 All Rights Reserved Book Five - Volume 8 & 9 ISBN 978-1-62292-067-9 Full Set of Six Books ISBN 978-1-62292-065-5 - from Amzon