PAST and Doctor Communis

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Here is some news on the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas (PAST) will hold its X Plenary Session in the Vatican on 18-20 June 2010 on the topic The Human Animal: Procreation, Education and the Foundations of Society. The speakers will include Kevin Flannery SJ, John Haldane, Reinhard Hütter and John O’Callaghan.

For more on the Pontifical Academy, follow this link to their new website.

As a follow-up on our report on last year’s Plenary Session (see here), we have acquired the proceedings of the sessions of 2009 and 2008.

Doctor Communis 2009: Saint-Thomas’s Interpretation of Saint Paul’s Doctrines

  • Rodríguez, Pedro: Del año paulino al año sacerdotal (20-22)
  • Martínez García, Enrique: In memoriam Francisco Canals Vidal (23-25)
  • Cordero Lanza DiMontezemolo, Andrea: L’anno paolino ed i programmi svolti nella Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura (26-38)
  • Hütter, Reinhard: “In hope he believed against hope” (Romans 4:18) (39-59)
  • DiNoia, Joseph A.: Christ brings freedom from sin and death (60-75)
  • Biffi, Inos: Aspetti della figura di Cristo nel commento di Tommaso alla Lettera agli Ebrei (76-91)
  • Rodríguez, Pedro: El “sacrum ministerium” en los comentarios de Santo Tomás al “Corpus paulinum” (92-113)
  • Ocáriz, Fernando: L’adozione filiale e il mistero di Cristo (114-130)
  • Elders, Leo J.: The “Lecturae” of St. Thomas Aquinas of the Letters of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians and Colossians (131-149)
  • Wielockx, Robert: Au sujet du commentaire de saint Thomas sur le “Corpus paulinum” (150-184)
  • Waldstein, Michael: The spousal logic of justification (185-197)
  • Ferrara, Ricardo: “Gratia secundum se”. La dottrina della grazia nel commento alla Lettera ai Romani (198-218)
  • Sánchez Sorondo, Marcello: Grace as “new creation” (219-236)

Doctor Communis 2008: The “Praeambula Fidei” and the New Apologetics

  • Zdybicka, Zofia J., Commemorazione di Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec, O.P.(18-20)
  • Levada, William J., The importance of a new apologetics (21-28)
  • McInerny, Ralph M., Newman and natural religion (29-37)
  • Wippel, John F., Philosophy and the preambles of faith in Thomas Aquinas (38-61)
  • Brock, Stephen L., Realistic practical truth (62-75)
  • Glendon, Mary A., Apologetics in the public square (78-86)
  • Morerod, Charles, Le nouvel athéisme évolutionniste et les praeambula fidei (87-112)
  • Cottier, Georges, Scientisme et apologétique (113-124)
  • Biffi, Inos, Per una nuova coscienza della centralità di Cristo nella cultura contemporanea (125-135)
  • Bruguès, Jean L., Moral convictions and evangelical ethics (136-144)
  • Livi, Antonio, La teologia di oggi ha bisogno di una nuova interpretazione filosofica della dottrina tommasiana dei “praeambula fidei” (151-175)
  • Galeazzi, Umberto, La razionalità dei tommasiani “praeambula fidei” el il fideismo di K. Barth, convergente con i neopositivisti (176-200)
  • Seidl, Horst, Apologetic theology as fruit of the encounter between Christian faith and metaphysics (201-208)