The ACPA (website: American Catholic Philosophical Association) is holding its annual conference here in Milwaukee this fall, from November 9-11, on the theme: Freedom, Will, and Nature. Here is the program for the conference, in DOC and PDF format.
Fr Ulrich Horst, OP, has a Festschrift in his honor appearing in Germany. Kirchenbild und Spiritualität: Dominikanische Beiträge zur Ekklesiologie und zum kirchlichen Leben im Mittelalter. Festschrift für Ulrich Horst OP zum 75. Geburtstag, is edited by Thomas Prügl of the University of Notre Dame and Marianne Schlosser. We have a Table of Contents in PDF form (articles by Prügl, Wawrykow, Senner, Bataillon, O’Meara, and many others), and here’s the blurb for the book from the publisher’s website:
Der langjährige Leiter des Münchener Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, Prof. em. Dr. Ulrich Horst O.P., ist vor allem durch seine Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Papsttheorie in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, sowie durch seine Studien über Thomas von Aquin und Theologen aus dem Dominikanerorden in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit bekannt. Als akademischer Lehrer betreute er Dissertationen und Habilitationen aus dem Bereich der mittelalterlichen Theologiegeschichte, mit Schwerpunkten auf der Ekklesiologie, Thomas von Aquin und der Theologie des Ordenslebens. In der vorliegenden Festschrift ehren ihn Kollegen und Schüler mit Beiträgen aus eben diesen Gebieten, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem Wirken und der Bedeutung des Dominikanerordens für das mittelalterliche Kirchenbild liegt. Der Band, der insgesamt 22 Beiträge umfasst, ist in fünf Abschnitte unterteilt. Im ersten Teil finden sich Beiträge zu theologischen und ekklesiologischen Themen bei Thomas von Aquin und Albertus Magnus. Der zweite Teil beleuchtet die Rolle der Mendikanten in den ekklesiologischen Auseinandersetzungen des 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, vor allem im Zusammenhang mit dem Bettelordenstreit, aber auch im Hinblick auf den kontroverstheologischen Dialog mit der Ostkirche. Ein weiterer Ab-schnitt widmet sich Aspekten der mendikantischen, vor allem der dominikanischen Ordenstheologie. Teil IV greift Themen aus dem Bereich Kirchenreform und Konzilien im Spätmittelalter auf, und ein abschließender Teil schlägt die Brücke in die Neuzeit. Der Band wird ergänzt durch eine Einführung zu Leben und Forschungen, sowie durch ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars.
John Deely of the University of St. Thomas in Houston got a smile recently when he found out that, in the front window of a Borders Bookstore in Singapore, his new book, Intentionality and Semiotics: A Story of Mutual Fecundation, was prominently placed alongside those of Alan Greenspan and Al Gore!
Says John Deely: “How great bookstores display books.”
Angelus Walz, OP (1893-1978), was for years a prolific professor of church history at the Angelicum in Rome, and contributed to the cause of Thomas-scholarship in many ways, notably by his biography of Aquinas (especially in its French translation, known simply as Walz-Novarina).
This past week I received an e-mail from a Martin Walter in Germany, who told me that he had found (about five years ago) some interesting pictures in the “Nachlass” of Fr Walz in the Dominican convent in Augsburg. These pictures had been evidently taken by a photographer named Anderson, who had a shop in Rome, in the 1920’s. The pictures were of triumphalistic paintings of St. Thomas, and Fr Walz had obtained copies with the option of having them used in the ground-breaking Xenia Thomistica, a 3-volume publication in 1925 commemorating the 600th anniversary of Thomas’s birth, loaded with articles by key players in early 20th-century Thomism (Maritain, Lottin, Garrigou-Lagrange, Merkelbach, Prümmer, Mandonnet, Walz, Grabmann, Pelster, Roland-Gosselin, Chenu [in Latin!]). Of the pictures in Fr Walz’s Nachlass, only one made it into Xenia Thomistica, the one by the painter Francisco de Zurbarán, which you can see in the frontispiece of the third volume.
Martin Walter scanned the three pictures he found, and kindly sent them to me for presentation here. They are found below.
Francisco de Zurbarán’s “Apotheosis of St. Thomas” (1661): this is the picture found in volume 3 of Xenia Thomistica (Seville).
Ludwig Seitz’s “St. Thomas Offers His Works to the Church,” commissioned by Pope Leo XIII (Vatican Museum).
“Heretics Vanquished by the Works of St. Thomas,” also by Ludwig Seitz, and commissioned by Leo XIII (Vatican Museum).
Thank you, Martin Walter!
I've had to turn-off the ability for visitors to create references to articles on the web site because in the last two days fully thirty-five spam references have been created, pointing to web sites whose content would make one's skin crawl. We'll see whether an extended period of down-time will calm the storm, and allow me to open things up again.
Thanks to Jörgen Vijgen for this:
Universality of Reason — Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages
XIIth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy
Palermo, 16-22 September 2007
Organised by Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (http://www.siepm.uni-freiburg.de).
4 special sessions devoted to Aquinas, coordinated by A. Oliva OP, papers dealing explicitly with Thomas Aquinas
John C. Cahalan has established a web site, Resources for Modern Aristotelians: Philosophical, Theological, Socio-Political and Pastoral, containing modern Aristotelian papers that one may find helpful, which can be downloaded and copied at no charge. The address is:
http://www.foraristotelians.info
The site contains a paper of special interest collecting in a logically integrated way almost everything Yves Simon wrote on the problem of thing and object, the question Maritain considered second in significance only to the real distinction of essence and existence. Among other things, the paper includes material otherwise buried in the important endnotes to The Material Logic of John of St. Thomas (Poinsot). To access this paper click “Virtual Anthology of Modern Aristotelian Philosophy,” also at the above web site.
Other papers at the web site are:
Soon to come:
There are more papers, by Calahan and others, to come. All the material is copyrighted, but you have permission to download and copy it, free of charge, as you please.
This just in, from John Deely of University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas:
As most, perhaps all, of you know, Jacques Maritain considered John of St Thomas — John Poinsot — to be, after only St Thomas himself, his prinicpal teacher in philosophy, and the last "commentator of genius" in the Latin line of Thomistic development. The best edition of the Cursus Philosophicus that John of St Thomas published between 1631 and 1635 was brought out in three volumes in the 1930s under the editorship of B. Reiser, an edition both long out of print and one published before the realization of the importance of publishing scholarly editions on acid-free paper.
Hildesheim Publishing (of Georg Olms) is planning for a Winter 2007/2008 re-issue of this important work provided that they receive enough subscriptions to go forward, a minimum of ten — nine, now that the University of St Thomas, Houston, library has entered a subscription.
The purpose of this e-mail is to ask each of you to have your university library enter a subscription of the work, so that the reprinting will be assured. Of course, private individuals can also enter a subscription. For either an institutional or an individual subscription to this reprint of the Cursus Philosophicus, simply e-mail
Bruno Vogel <customerservice@olms.de>
with full contact information, specifying that
"This is a subscription to the reprinting of Poinsot's Cursus Philosophicus."
While that short message would suffice, I also add the full information concerning this matter should your librarian require it in order to subscribe.
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Johannes Poinsot, Cursus philosophicus Thomisticus. Nova editio a P. Beato Reiser O.S.B. (1929), Reimpressio revisa. 3 Bände. Reprint: Hildesheim. Mit einem Vorwort und einer Bibliographie von Martin Walter. LXIV/2348 Seiten, Leinen
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Harvey Brown from University of Western Ontario invites submissions for next year's Kalamazoo, in the sessions devoted to The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law.
Proposals should be sent, by Sept. 15, 2007, to :
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I got this in the e-mail the other day:
I take pleasure in informing you, also on behalf of the whole staff, that we have put online the first issue (1/January-June 2007) of the new e-review of Officina di Studi Medievali "Mediaeval Sophia - Studies and researches on medieval knowledge." The review, which has all formal authorizations as a periodical publication, will be updated every six months and will be put online in July and December; it will be placed side by with the academic journal of Officina di Studi Medievali, "Schede Medievali", which will continue to appear once yearly.
In this phase "Mediaeval Sophia" is online with reading and saving of the texts in PDF format, free of charge, for all sections. To connect use the link: www.mediaevalsophia.it. When you enter the site you will be asked to do free registration, with a form to be filled in all parts requested.
We are in the experimental phase and you will excuse us if there are any management problems, which, however, we are working on. Indeed, we will be very happy if you tell us about any problems and difficulties and if you suggest any ways to improve both the services and the review, which is open to contributions from anyone interested in our "International academic community of medieval studies."
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The people over at the Thomas Institut in Cologne have put together a nifty short documentary about their Institute. The description runs as follows:
This video is a little documentary of the Thomas-Institut of the University of Cologne. The Thomas-Institut is a research Institute whose function it is to serve the study of medieval philosophy by preparing critical editions and historical and systematic studies of medieval authors.
An imbedded YouTube clips follows:
Got the following in this morning’s e-mail:
AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY (www.atijournal.org)
A Biannual Journal of Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Culture, & History (forthcoming: January 15, 2008).
Particular topics of interest include:
- (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, or Evangelical) Perspectives on the Current State of American Christianity.
- Current theological/philosophical trends in the Western world.
- Cultural/philosophical apologetics.
- Ecumenism and/or criticism of other traditions (ostensively) within the scope of ancient orthodoxy (Creedal Christianity)
- Systematic theology.
- Perspectives on history/historical events from an orthodox viewpoint.
- Engaging contemporary culture with the gospel.
- Engagement with the Patristical literature.
Please visit: http://www.atijournal.org for SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and additional information about the Journal.
Thanks to private funding, access to American Theological Inquiry is FREE. The Journal will be published in a PDF format, biannually, on January and July 15th.
As ATI prepares for its first edition on January, 15, 2008, we welcome the suggestions, ideas, and feedback of the American community of Christian scholars. To provide feedback to the Journal, please follow this link.
It may be something of a stretch to post it here, but the journal might be a place for a Thomist to say something interesting. I’d rather be too thorough. Those who submit articles are also asked explicitly to affirm their adherence to the four early creeds.
(Sotto voce: I’ve been meaning to think about ecclesial community, its creeds, and its sacred texts; maybe I’ll put together a post on my personal web site…).
Under the direction of the Sacra Doctrina Project
