Two Journals Seeking Submissions

Two journals are seeking submissions on topics related to Thomistic Studies: The European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas and Studia Gilsoniana.

Fr. Anton ten Klooster, the Managing Editor of the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas, has been informing colleagues that his journal is seeking submissions. For information about the journal: https://sciendo.com/journal/EJSTA. Fr. ten Klooster can be reached at a.m.tenklooster@tilburguniversity.edu.

Dr. R. Mary Lemmons, special issue editor for Studia Gilsoniana, is also soliciting papers for the third special edition of Studia Gilsoniana on Thomistic Personalism. The second edition will be out in September with the following four papers: (1) "John Paul II’s Gamble with ‘the Meaning of Life” by Joshua P. Hochschild, (2) “No Meaning For Believers? A Reply To Joshua Hochschild” by Mirela Oliva, (3) “On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology & Thomism” by Daniel C. Wagner, and (4) “Thomas Aquinas on Grace as a Mysterious Kind of Creature” by Elliott Polsky. Dr. Lemmons also noted that the editor-in-chief of Studia Gilsoniana, Fr. Pawel Tarasiewicz, is always looking for excellent submissions. More information about the journal can be found here: http://gilsonsociety.com/?studia-gilsoniana,16. For submissions to this special edition, Dr. Lemmons can be reached at rmlemmons@stthomas.edu.

Call for Papers: Society for Thomistic Personalism

The Society for Thomistic Personalism is soliciting abstracts for their satellite session at this year’s meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held November 18-21, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri. Consider submitting a brief one-page abstract by e-mailing Dr. R. Mary Lemmons at rmlemmons@stthomas.edu by July 19th.

The session’s topic is Today’s Crisis and John Paul II. Potential presenters can choose which crisis they wish to address: relativism, American culture, abortion, assisted suicide, the invention of rights, the divorce culture, the rise of Marxism, the threat of democratic totalitarianism, socialism versus free enterprise versus laissez-faire capitalism, gender relativism, rabid secularism, practical atheism, unwed mothers, absent fathers, anti-family feminism, mass migration, et cetera. Abstract proposals are due by July 19.