Conference program for Utrecht Conference on Aquinas

I received the final conference program from Prof. Dr. Henk Schoot, director of the Thomas Instituut in Utrecht (The Netherlands) (see our earlier post here). The Institute organizes its fourth international conference on the theological virtues in Aquinas from 11-14 December 2013.

Speakers include Eleonore Stump, Michael Sherwin O.P. and John O'Callaghan and many other contributors from North America.

You can download the conference program here!

The volumes 1-25 (1981-2006) of their yearbook are now available in pdf-format here. Although initially written in Dutch, they include contributions written in other languages as well.

Aquinas and the Arabs video course on-line: Thomas Aquinas: Soul and Intellect

From a note sent me by my colleague Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University):

This is just a note to let you know that the global / international graduate course on Aquinas which Andrea Robiglio and I taught with Luis López-Farjeat in Fall 2012 using video lectures and weekly live video meetings has now been ‘published’ via the Marquette University Library e-Publications initiative See http://epublications.marquette.edu/phil_fac/267/.

 

This includes course description, complete syllabus with required primary and secondary literature for each class meeting, optional recommended additional literature, bibliographical resources, special questions or issues, five translations from Arabic and Latin from the Liber de causis, Albert’s De homine, and Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, and more. The syllabus has links for each week to the 13 hrs of video lectures.

 

We are doing something similar but improved technically and pedagogically (we believe) for Fall 2013. See http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/Aquinas_Fall_2013_MU_KUL/Course_Description.html, which is under development.

Dick Taylor is always at the forefront of some interesting curricular happenings.

Italian is easy...IF you know Latin and use these charts

So runs the title of a wonderful handout that Raymond V. Schoder, S.J., distributed in 1960, as part of the “American Classical League.” I received a copy of this handout from Michael A. Fahey, S.J., some years back, and re-found it this morning here in my office at Marquette University while I was ferreting through file folders.

Since our Xerox machines these days also double a massive scanners-to-PDF creators, I scanned the thing to PDF files, combined them into one PDF in Adobe Acrobat, cleaned up, rotated and deskewed the file, and saved it here on Thomistica.net.

This handout is a perfect tool for those who need to consult Italian texts in journals, etc., but don’t have the time to take a full course. Download the 8Mb file here.

A blessed Holy Week to all.

Theological Studies web site updated

The website for the journal, Theological Studies, has been completedly revamped, both for a better look and feel and to be “responsive” (ut dicunt) to various devices. The site renders well on computers, smartphones (like the iPhone or even iPod touch), and tablet devices (such as the iPad or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab).

Most important for viewers here at Thomistica.net is the fact that the entire run of the journal, save for articles published in the last five years, is now fully available for PDF download, via the site’s searchable catalog of past articles (going back to its first year of publication, 1940). As visitors to Thomistica.net will know, Theological Studies is primarily a journal for contemporary academic theology, primarily systematic and moral (with occasional historical appearances, too). But articles on Thomas Aquinas directly do appear, and often articles are written with some invocation of Thomas’s doctrine on this or that. Don’t hesitate to visit the site at http://ts.mu.edu to search by author’s name, or keywords in article titles, to find something that aids your research.

The site also now sports a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/theostudies), as well as an RSS feed (via Feedburner).

More volumes of the Leonine edition available in pdfs

Thomistica.net reported earlier on the possibility of downloading the first volumes of the Leonine edition. But thanks to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France more volumes are now available: vols. 22, 23, 26, 28, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47.

This means that the volumes containing the disputed questions ‘De veritate’ and ‘De malo’, his scriptural commentaries on Job and Isaiah, his commentaries on Aristotle’s Ethica and De Anima and many other works can now be consulted online, including the critical apparatus and the most valuable and comprehensive introductions by father Dondaine, Gauthier and others!

Here is the link!

Mandonnet Texts Online

Two important texts of Pierre Mandonnet are available for free in digital form via the Internet Archive: Des écrits authentiques de S. Thomas d’Aquin (1910) and Bibliographie thomiste (1921). Obviously, these texts have been surpassed in many ways by more up-to-date scholarship but they still have their uses. Some evidence for this is the fact that Des écrits authentiques de S. Thomas d’Aquin has been downloaded 157 times and Bibliographie thomiste has been downloaded 292 times.

The texts are available in several formats, including PDF and Kindle. 

Gregory Sayers, Neglected English Thomist

I thought that I would try out blogging by drawing attention to one of the newly updated moral theologians on the PRDL Website, namely Gregory Sayer, OSB (1560-1602): http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=2051. He is probably the only famous Catholic English moral theologian and Thomist of the 16th-17th centuries. Was Thomas Stapleton a Thomist? You can read about Sayer in an article by EJ Mahoney:

The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Apr., 1925), pp. 29-37

The Salmanticenses Enter the Digital Age

Thanks to the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, the Cursus Theologicus of the Salamanca Discalced Carmelites is now available eletronically via the Internet Archive. The Cursus, based on Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and originally intended as a textbook for Carmelite theology students, was put together by various authors and editors during most of the 17th century and completed at the beginning of the 18th century. The version digitized by PIMS is the twenty volume edition published in Paris between 1870 and 1883. Three volumes seem to be missing, however: 6, 7, and 15.

Open Digital Access to Louvain and Laval Philosophy and Theology Journals

I may have been the last person in the world to stumble upon this. But maybe there are still a few people out there who share my ignorance. The French site Persée is an open access depository for a huge number of digitized French-language scholarly journals. Thomistica.net readers may be particularly interested to know that this includes all the issues between 1894 and 2001 of the Revue Philosophique de Louvain. You may know that the Revue went by different names over the years: from 1894 to 1909 it was known as the Revue néo-scholastique and from 1910 to 1940 it was known as the Revue néo-scholastique de philosophie. The articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats.

The French-Canadian site Érudit, sponsored by the Université de Montréal, the Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal, is a depository similar to Persée. In fact, the two sites link to each other. Among the journals offered by Érudit is Laval théologique et philosophique. All the issues between 1977 and 2009 can be accessed for free. The 2010 and 2011 issues require a subscription. Although I have not taken the time to confirm it, I assume that there is a two-year “moving wall” of access for the journal. In other words, a year from now there should be open access through 2010 but the 2011 and 2012 issues will require a scubscription, and so on. The articles on Érudit seem only to be available in PDF format.