I came across this site and this event a bit back. The "Thomistic Seminar" is an annual meeting at Princeton, more akin to a graduate seminar—taking place in a single week's time—than a conference with papers' being presented and discussed. The seminar sports a full and attractive web site, with information about its present doings, as well as past seminars. Also listed are the faculty for this summer's seminar, including David Gallagher and Gyula Klima.
Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell has placed on his personal web page at the University of Fribourg an autobiographical account of his personal intellectual life, entitled "Mon parcours intellectual," dating from early February of this year. A fascinating read. At the base of the web page you'll find a PDF file of his bibliography, listing—gulp!—392 different writings. Of particular notice among the newer items is Nouvelles recherches thomasiennes. Cinq études revues et augmentées, to appear this year.
This sad news in, from Fr. Adriano Oliva, OP, president of the Leonine Commission, in Paris:
Chère Amie, Cher Ami,
Il y a une heure, dans le couvent de l'Annonciation à Paris, le P. Betrand Georges Guyot s'est endormi dans le Seigneur. Il était dans sa 87ème année, 62ème de vie religieuse. Le 12 avril j'avais parlé avec lui et il se sentait très fatigué, sans savoir pourquoi. Il était serein et joyeux comme nous l'avons connu. Dès que nous connaîtrons le jour de ses obsèques je vous le communiquerai.
Amitiés, Adriano Oliva.
Fr Guyot was one of the hard-working members of the Commission for many, many years, and author of critical articles on medieval manuscripts, particularly those pertaining to philosophy and theology.
Rethinking the topic of virtue ethics recently had me visiting some classic sources, one of which is by any account seminal: G.E.M. Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy," Philosophy 33/124 (1958): 1-19. The article has been republished all over the place, especially in anthologies devoted to the subject of virtue ethics. But it is also located on the web, intact. Copy, paste, print…
Just rediscovered this resource, located at Notre Dame University: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It’s an on-line storehouse that contains reviews of important books in philosophy, covering some recent and well-known books about St. Thomas, by reputable reviewers. You can read, for free, reviews about Aquinas, Thomist, medieval, and more.
With both spring and Easter coming I decided today that I wanted to change the look of the site. This also led to some other changes that I'd wanted to make—after all, two solid years of the same look is way too long in "Internet time," no? So in a flurry of activity I've made the following changes:
All of these changes are a prelude to what I hope will be an interesting and packed Newsletter within the next month or so (likely in mid-May, after my academic year [and reading two doctoral dissertations!] is completed). As always, I am eager to get news about Thomistic comings-and-goings.
Finally, thank you for visiting the site. Thomistica.net averages more than 250 distinct visitors each day, and I am eager to make the site be as helpful to visitors as possible. Please don't hesitate to contact me with suggestions regarding the site.
Narrowed the main column’s width, because 900 pixels is probably a bit too wide, and the banner graphic “loomed” a bit to large.
The Sociedad Tomista Argentina, founded by the Argentine Thomist Mgr. Octavio Derisi (1907-2002), holds its annual “Thomist Week” in Buenos Aires from 10-14 September 2007 on the topic “Philosophy of the Body”. Papers can be submitted before May 31, 2007. Here is the PDF with all the information (in Spanish, of course!). In it you can find the info on how to contact the secretary of the Society, Prof. María Célestina Donadío Maggi de Gandolfi!
Just in, from the people at the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame:
The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to invite applications from undergraduate and graduate students for its two Medieval Academy CARA (Centers and Regional Associates) scholarships in medieval Latin or paleography for Summer 2007.
Two students taking "Medieval Latin" or "Latin Paleography" courses for credit will be awarded full tuition scholarships. (Registration and other fees, books, and housing costs are the responsibility of the students.) Scholarship applicants must be student members of the Medieval Academy. To apply for one of these scholarships, please send a letter of intent, two letters of recommendation, and a transcript to the address below. The deadline for Summer 2007 is May 1, 2007.
CARA Summer Scholarships
Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629
Both courses will be taught by Frank A. C. Mantello, professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America. All students who wish to take summer classes at Notre Dame, apply for admission the University's Summer Session Office. Details about costs, registration, course offerings, and housing options are available on the Summer Session web site:
http://www.nd.edu/~sumsess/
Or phone 574-631-7282. Questions about the CARA scholarships may be directed to me (see contact info below). Please contact the Summer Session Office for non-scholarship information.
Cordially,
Roberta Baranowski
Assistant Director, Medieval Institute
University of Notre Dame
715 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-8304 (telephone)
574-631-8644 (fax)
The illustrious journal Revue Thomiste is continuing the update of its website. You can find there:
R. Houser of the University of ST. Thomas, Houston, Texas has edited a fine collection of essays to honor Armand Maurer C.S.B. (1915—), Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
The volume, entitled Laudemus viros gloriosos (taken from Ecclesiasticus 44.1), is being published by Notre Dame Press. A number of them deal explicitly with Thomas Aquinas.
Here is the table of contents:
Leo Elders was born in Enkhuizen (Netherlands), studied philosophy and theology at the houses of study of the Societas Verbi Divini in the Netherlands and Germany and was ordained in 1953. His Ph.D. dissertation, begun under Werner Jäger at Harvard University and completed at the University of Montréal (Canada) under Vianney Décarie in 1959 was published as Aristotle’s theory of the One. A commentary on Book X of the Metaphysics in 1961.
Fr. Elders taught from 1959 until 1971 at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, where he served as dean of the philosophy department and rector of the Major Seminary of Nagoya (Theology Faculty of the University Nanzan). He worked for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1971-1976 while teaching at the Angelicum and the Lateran University in Rome. Since 1976 fr. Elders is a member of the faculty of the Major Seminary Rolduc (Netherlands). He has been visiting professor at the Center for Thomistic Studies in Houston from 1981-1987 and holds the chair of metaphysics since 1988 at the Faculté de philosophie comparée in Paris and the chair of the history of philosophy at the Gustav-Siewerth-Akademie in Germany. Here one can find a more complete CV.
In addition to the books mentionned above, his current list of publications numbers 306 titles covering almost every aspect of Aquinas’s philosophy and theology. Here is the complete list. Among the recent titles are: ‘Tomás de Aquino, comentador de San Pablo’ (2006), ‘Présence de saint Jérôme dans les oeuvres de Thomas d’Aquin’ (2005), ‘La teología de Santo Tomás de la imagen de Dios en el hombre’ (2004), ‘St. Thomas Aquinas on education and instruction’ (2003), ‘La paternité de Dieu dans la théologie spirituelle de saint Thomas d’Aquin’ (2001), ‘Il dialogo in San Tommaso’ (2001), ‘La relation entre l’Ancienne et la Nouvelle Alliance selon saint Thomas’ (2000).
Peter Kwasniewski of Wyoming Catholic College draws our attention to that college’s theology curriculum. He writes:
Dear Thomistica.net,
Recently Wyoming Catholic College has posted on our website the revised theology curriculum our students will follow during their four-year B.A. in Liberal Arts program. Readers of Thomistica.net will no doubt find compelling the curriculum’s rootedness in Scripture and Tradition, and its rich selection of classic readings in the Fathers and Doctors, Popes and Councils, from St. Peter and Nicaea I to Benedict XVI and Vatican II. The guiding principles are profoundly Thomistic and St. Thomas himself is featured in seven of eight semesters.
To locate the theology curriculum on our website, go to the home page (www.wyomingcatholiccollege.com), select the feature button “Academics,” choose the second item “Catalog,” and in the little box under “WCC Catalog,” choose “Theology Curriculum” followed by Go.
Good luck to Peter and the faculty at this great new enterprise.
Under the direction of the Sacra Doctrina Project
