A new author, and a first for the library: Introduction of the Symbol of Faith — Part One by Fray Luis de Granada, O.P. (1583) — the library’s first work translated from the Spanish.
Granada was the greatest spiritual writer of Spain’s golden age: Saint Teresa called him a master, Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Vincent de Paul were formed on his pages, and Saint Charles Borromeo kept his works at hand. The Introduction of the Symbol of Faith is the summa of his old age, and its First Part is his walk through the theater of creation as through the house of its Maker: the heavens and the sun; the four elements; the fertility of the earth and the beauty of its flowers; the abilities of the animals — the provisions, the medicines, the governments of the ants and the bees; the fashioning of the human body member by member; and the soul with its senses and powers, made to the image and likeness of God. All of it ordered to one end: that from the greatness and providence seen in the works, the reader may rise to the knowledge and love of the Creator, and be confirmed in the first article of the faith.
The work may be read online chapter by chapter, or downloaded as a PDF with a clickable table of contents and as an EPUB for e-readers, alongside the original’s own index of chapters. Every chapter is joined to the library-wide indexes of subjects, persons, scripture, councils, and heresies — where Galen now takes his place beside the philosophers, summoned by Granada’s chapters on the wisdom written in the human body.