New publications in eBooks*.

We published eleven eBooks by the Jesuit Jeremiah Drexel (1581 – 1638).
Drexel wrote so gently about problems in a spiritual life, that his works were also enjoyed by Anglicans in England.

Drexel advocated spiritual reading, physical mortification, prayers and work, the fight against idleness and in a positive way a constant thinking of God. And – as a kind of Individual Psychology (here not meant in the sense of Alfred Adler) – a mental visualization of the torments of hell and the destiny of heaven. In other words, an individual trial or attempt versus ‘temptations out there’. Own studies of consciousness is also important to him. Drexel therefore recommends using a psychological cognitive (of course not in this wording) methodology, such as an attitude or even mentally to operate with anticipations, thus, to combat life’s omnipresent dangers.

Another Jesuit writer shall be introduced here, his name is Jean L. Surin (lived 1600–1665). We republished his works in nine eBooks, including the ‘Ten Commandments’.
Surin emphasizes the individual necessity to a pure and complete will for perfection. He sees the Holy Spirit as the guide to perfection, to whom a person should completely surrender.  Everything in his writings lays obviously in own observations and he described individual experience as the most central category and in having unity with God as pure and precious love.

Here is a brief introduction why and how we present some text pagess in ENGLISH LANGUAGE together with GERMAN LANGUAGE texts in the same page.

Approx. half of our titles are in German Language, including names of collections, sets, subsets, Biographic Records etc. Therefore, we decided to leave all related Webpages in German Language. And where adequate to content of our Media / eBooks, of course we introduced such Webpages in English Language or French Language.

Now, we continue here in German language with more brief Author / title listings ***:

16th Century:
Macherentinus, David, Jungfrawschafft, ein christlichs außerlesens Büchlin vom

17th Century:
Gretser, Jakob, Disciplinbuch : das ist, von der Leibscasteyung und….

18th Century:
Helm, Balduin, Wunderreicher Magnet englischer Reinigkeit, an sich
Kobolt, Wilibald, Schertz und Ernst beysammen : Das ist: eine….

Hausen, Wilhelm, Der gute Christ in seinen vornehmsten Pflichten durch….

This brief selection introduces maybe well-known authors of these periods. However, many authors are forgotten, or were less known at their time, or were even anon. writers, all of them deserve our attention.

Moral Theology, works from a significant Convent library,
originally printed in the 16th -19th Centuries.
39 writers
23 anon. writers
82 ebooks
32,294 Full text pages
electronic Bibliographic records are available

Upon request, we can compile author / title lists, you’ll find more details in our SHOP.

Notes:
Quanatites of writers / ebooks / full text pages etc. are approximately information.
* Information is subject to change at any time and without notice.
** “Title” means “bibliographic unit”, i.e., one title contains the content of at least one “physical” volume. However, depending on the original work, “title” can also contain contents of two or more ‘physical’ original books and / or journals or magazines.
*** The short titles listed in our examples above for each work are, of course, listed in the bibliographical title data with partly extensive long titles, related to its original wording,

Last update: 26 June 2026