[Oldcath-l] Newly Reissued Book on Old Catholic History

[Jeff Duntemann]

Preservation is the whole idea. The copy of the book I bought is the 
only one I have ever seen for sale, and about the best I can say for its 
condition is that all pages were present and accounted for. It now lives 
in a Ziplock bag, having come completely to pieces during the scanning 
process.

I should emphasize here that I did not do a "holograph reprint" on the 
book, as John Mabry has done with a number of classic OC titles like 
Neale and Moss. I actually fed the book through an OCR program, made a 
monster Word file out of it, and then poured the Word file into a book 
template in a desktop publishing program. Thus there are no spots, 
blotches or squashed bugs, no wrinkles or crinkles and no scribbles in 
the margin. The footnotes in the original were painfully small, so I 
blew them up a little to make them more accessible to middle-aged eyes. 
I also added a modern-style index, which many books of that era lack. 
(For those who don't know me, I'm a book publisher in my day job, so all 
of this stuff is just an extension of what I do all the time.)

This book in particular works very well as a layman's overview of the 
establishment of the European OC churches between 1870-1875. It has 
short bios of all the major players, and a newspaper-style play-by-play 
not only of the Council but of the events that came after it. All the 
deep theology lives in the footnotes and doesn't get in the way of a 
linear read from the beginning to the end. (I had to set some runs of 
Greek character by character--painful, and I hope I got it all correct!)

I appreciate your support. My next project is The Pope and the Council 
(1870) by Dollinger and Huber (writing under the pseudonym "Janus") 
which is a historian's tightly reasoned argument against Ultramontanism. 
I have it about three-quarters scanned and OCRed, and will begin laying 
it out in a couple of weeks. It should be available by the end of 
January. After that is Father Hyacinthe's Catholic Reform (1874) for 
which I have no schedule as yet.

I am also considering a short dictionary of terms specific to 
Catholicism that have fallen out of use since Vatican II. (crotalus, 
bugia, zuchetto, greca, wimple, frustulum, sacrarium, predella, fanon, 
and on for about 400 entries...)

With a system like Lulu to handle order fulfillment, books like this 
become feasible, even if they only sell 100 copies or so.

Pax Christi--

--Jeff Duntemann
  Colorado Springs, Colorado


+Andre Queen wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Congratulations! I'm ordering several copies for my personal library. I am
> very much also looking forward to your next publishing project as well.
>
>
>
> Everyone else,
>
> We really need to support works such as this, as they tell the history of
> our progenitors.  You cease to be a curiosity or an oddity, and become a
> respected, established faith, with solid published works, like this one,
> that Jeff has saved from obscurity so that we have this valuable resource to
> further educate ourselves and those who come after us.
>
>
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