MAT foreign language practice texts
MAT Language Proficiency Test
Reading Samples for St Paul Seminary School of Divinity
These sample texts for translation practice are in PDF format -- select a reading, enter your UST username (NetId) and password, and print or download the item. If you have any problems with this page or the pdf's, be sure to contact Ireland Library: j9malcheski@stthomas.edu, 651-962-5453
To access individual readings, select link, enter UST username (your NetId) and your personal password.
FRENCH READINGS
Congar, Yves. La Parole et le souffle. Paris: Desclée, 1983. Login required.
Crouzel, Henri. Origène. Paris: Pierre Zech Editeur, 1985. Login required.
Martimort, Aimé Georges. L'Eglise en prière: introduction à la liturgie. Nouv. ed. Paris: Desclée, 1983. Login required.
GERMAN READINGS
Schnelle, Udo. Antidoketische Christologie im Johannesevangelium. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987. Login required.
Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Das Herz Der Welt. Zürich: Im Verlag der Arche, 1945. Login required.
Harnack, Adolf. Militia Christi: Die christliche Religion und der Soldatenstand in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963. Login required.
Rad, Gerhard von. Theologie des Alten Testaments. Band 1 & Theologie des Alten Testaments. Band 2. München: C. Kaiser, 1958-1960. Login required.
LATIN READINGS
The Venerable Bede. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. Life of Cuthbert, Book 1.
Benedict of Nursia. Regula. Rule.
Augustinus, Aurelius. Confessiones. Confessions, Book 9, 33-37.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Ad Novatum de Ira, Book 1, Chapter 1.
Tacitus, Corneliusr. Annales, Book 15, Chapters 44-45.
SPANISH READINGS
Ellacuría, Ignacio, and Jon Sobrino. Mysterium Liberationis : conceptos fundamentales de la teología de la liberación. 2 vols. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1990. Login required.
Sobrino, Jon. Cristología desde América Latina: esbozo a partir del seguimiento del Jesús histórico. México: Centro de Reflexion Teologica, 1976. Login required.
j9m Revised May 2009
