Fr Burrell's latest doings

After receiving Fr David Burrell, CSC’s (of the University of Notre Dame) annual Christmas e-mail letter, I wrote to him inquiring what he has been writing that touches upon St Thomas. He graciously responded with the following list:

• "Al-Ghazali, Aquinas, and Created Freedom," in Jeremiah Hackett, William Murnion, Carl Still, eds., Being and Thought in Aquinas (Binghamton NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2004) 17-46.
• Preface/Avant-propos to Olivier-Thomas Venard, O.P, La langue des choses: fondements theologiques de la metaphysique (Geneve: Ad Solem, 2004) vi-x.
• "Analogy, Creation, and Theological Language," in Rik Van Nieuwenhove and Joseph Wawrykow, eds., Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) 77-98.
• "Creation in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Super Evangelium," in Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, eds., Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005) 115-26.
• "Can we be Free without a Creator?" in L. Gregory Jones, Reinhard Hutter, C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell, eds., God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas (Grand Rapids MI: Brazos Press, 2005) 35-52.
• "The New Aquinas" in Rupert Short, ed., God’s Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2005) 126-40.

Doctor Angelicus 5 (2005) is out

There’s something for everyone in David Berger’s wonderful, multi-language journal, Doctor Angelicus. This year’s volume is now available (volume 5 [2005]). You can see the journal’s web site here. Make sure to check out its valuable run-down of the year 2004’s thomistic bibliography. Here is its table of contents:

Dissertationes

• Jörgen Vijgen, "Die heutige Autorität des hl. Thomas von Aquin im Lichte der Tradition" (pp. 7-54)
• Leo Elders s.v.d., "The Doctrine of Being of St. Thomas Aquinas" (pp. 55-74)
• Christian Ferraro v.e., "La conoscenza dell’ens e dell’esse dalla prospettiva del tomismo essenziale" (pp. 75-108)
• Roman Cardal, "Die Dynamik des intellektuellen Lebens und die Rehabilitation der Metaphysik" (pp. 109-126)
• Brunero Gherardini, "L’uomo in San Tommaso" (pp. 127-132)
• Manuel Ocampo Ponce, "Algunas reflexiones sobre la ciencia y la técnica a la luz del pensiamento de Santo Tomás de Aquino" (pp. 133-152)
• Davide Venturini, "Beatitudo, bonum commune und lex bei Thomas von Aquin" (pp. 153-164)
• Mario Coccia, "Credit Where Credit is Due: St. Thomas Aquinas versus Peter Lombard on the True Nature of Charity" (pp. 165-178)
• Uwe Michael Lang, "The Controversies over Chalcedon and the Beginnings of Scholastic Theology: The Case of John Philoponus" (pp. 179-196)
• Jörgen Vijgen, "The Future of Cornelio Fabro’s Legacy" (pp. 197-204)
• David Berger, "Thomas Rusters These vom ‘verwechselbaren Gott’ aus thomistischer Perspektive" (pp. 205-220)

Recensiones

• Thomas Marschler: Jörgen Vijgen (ed.), Indubitanter ad veritatem. Studies offered to Leo J. Elders SVD in Honor of the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood (pp. 221-223)
• Jörgen Vijgen: Ralph M. McInerny, Aquinas (pp. 223-224)
• David Berger: Ludovicus Carbo a Costaciario, Compendium absolutissimum totius Summae Theologiae D. Thomae Aquinatis (pp. 224-227) / John of St. Thomas, Introduction to the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (pp. 227-231) /Paulus Engelhardt, Thomas von Aquin. Wegweisung in sein Werk (231-233) / Benedikt Ritzler, Freiheit in der Umarmung des ewig Liebenden. Die historische Entwicklung des Personverständnisses bei Jacques Maritain (pp. 233-236)
• Enrique Alarcón – David Berger – Jörgen Vijgen: "Bibliographia Thomistica 2004" (pp. 237-314)

Happy reading.

Update on Mediaevalia Philosophica Polonorum

An update from Monika Michalowska (on behalf of Professor Elzbieta Jung):

It is a pleasure for me to inform you that we have almost completed the first number of Mediaevalia Philosophica Polonorum which will be published at the beginning of 2006. 

However, as we have some place for a few articles it is still open for contributions in history of medieval philosophy, theology and science in English, French, German and Latin and editions of medieval texts of approximately 30 printed pages (ca 54000 signs). I would also like to ask you to send a short note about you together with the text.

So….got an article you’d like to see published? See the original call for papers here, posted in February, 2005, which contains the mailing address, and e-mail address, of the journal.

International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (and its Yearbook)

The International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (IGTM) has founded a yearbook dedicated to publish scholarly articles and book reviews on all fields of medieval theology, especially the history of theology, philosophical theology, history of exegesis, history of liturgy, history of canon law, church history, history of spirituality, art history etc. not only of the Latin West, but also of the Greek East as well as the contemporary Judaism and Islam. The journal will also accept for publication short critical editions as well as studies on and repertories of medieval manuscripts relevant for the field.

• Languages of publication are: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
• Articles will be accepted for publication on the basis of double blind peer review. Any kind of allusion to the author in the text should therefore be avoided.
• Authors are held to submit their articles in electronic format (Word / Word Perfect) plus three paper copies, to observe the guidelines set up by the editorial board and are requested to ensure that permission for the reproduction of images is obtained prior to publication.

All colleagues are asked to consider if they would like to submit an article and also to spread the word to those who might be interested. As the journal will also include book reviews you might also want to encourage your publisher to send your publications to be reviewed.

The journal, Archa verbi (Annuarium Societatis Internationalis pro Studiis Theologiae Mediae Aevi promovendis) is published by Aschendorff, and you can look at the table of contents for the very promising first issue here.