Thomistica is 10 years old
/Just a short note to remind our friends that today marks the ten-year anniversary of thomistica.net's first post! Thanks to all for their contributions and support. Ad multos annos, nos omnes!
Just a short note to remind our friends that today marks the ten-year anniversary of thomistica.net's first post! Thanks to all for their contributions and support. Ad multos annos, nos omnes!
Thomistica.net contributor, David Whidden, has published Christ the Light, a book about the theme of light, as read throughout Thomas's works. Even in a period of tightened budgets this book is a worthy option for academic libraries and individuals.
Read MoreToday Pope Francis has named Dominican Father Serge-Thomas Bonino, the secretary of the International Theological Commission since 2011 and dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the Angelicum since September 2014, as the new president of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The Opera Omnia Project has a beta-version of a web app containing Thomas's Summa theologiae and his New Testament commentaries available for visiting.
Read MoreFrom the Library of Leiden University (the Netherlands) comes the news:
"This is to alert you to a new product of the “Turning Over a New Leaf” project: a website (in English) devoted to the medieval manuscript, aimed at a non-expert audience: http://quill.leiden.edu/. Some sixty web pages take you through the different production stages of the manuscript, and highlight important facets of the book before print. Short explanatory texts are paired with beautiful photographs, produced by Giulio Menna, professional photographer and co-producer of the website.Quill went live today and was two years in the making. It was produced with funding of De Jonge Akademie, logistical support of Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), and with generous help of Leiden University Library, Special Collections."
Henry Stachyra's book business has just released another catalogue (no. 21) that has many critical, 'canonical' editions of medieval thinkers, including the whole first-half of Aquinas's Leonine Edition.
Read MoreIf you want to get your library's collection of Leonine editions up-to-date (including the new volume 44, 1), now is the time. Take a peek.
Read MoreThe longtime labors of Fr. Louis-Jacques Bataillon, OP, have been brought to birth by Adriano Oliva and the other workers at the Leonine Commission. Volume 44, 1 is here, and it's jam-packed with fascinating information.
Read MoreJörgen Vijgen found Garrigou-Lagrange in Rome. Follow his journey.
Read MoreToday the Vatican released the names of the 30 members of the International Theological Commission for the new five-year term (2014-2019). Serge-Thomas Bonino, OP, will be returning as the secretary general of the ITC. A press release from the ITC about all of this can be found here. Members of the ITC are proposed by the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in consultation with national bishops' conferences and officially appointed by the pope. The prefect of the CDF serves as the Commission's ex officio president.
Below is the list of the members for 2014-2019 term (taken from the ITC press release):
Thanks to Santiago Argüello we can order up the newly available volume 44, 1 of the Leonine Edition, containing Thomas's individual sermons.
Read MoreLeafing through my family's Jerusalem Bible I found a pamphlet from Lent of 1975 that left me bug-eyed. I was about to turn fourteen years of age, and was a dutiful if unenthused Catholic. Our family went to a Lenten service at church. The rest I'll tell you now.
Read MoreUnder the direction of the Sacra Doctrina Project