A follow-up to the preceding post on the bab.la on-line dictionary portal. If you’re using Firefox as your browser there’s a bab.la toolbar (link), and if you’re using IE there’s also a toolbar (link). These plug-ins also include links to Google and to Wikipedia. Cool.
I’m waiting for them to create an iPhone/iPod Touch app.
Even though I've got some links here on the site to various on-line dictionaries, usually in a one-for-one way, the online language portal bab.la offers 25 dictionaries in 15 languages, all freely available (e.g. German, French, Italian, Spanish, on and on).
The site also features exercises and other activities you can use to improve your knowledge of other languages. A fine, fine resource.
This in, from Peter Kwasniewski:
The Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, founded by John Mortensen (recent recipient of a pontifical award), Jeremy Holmes, and Peter Kwasniewski, will be conducting its third annual Summer Program from May 24th to July 16th, 2010, in the town of Lander, Wyoming. The theme of this summer is “Man on Pilgrimage to God: The Prima Secundae of the Summa theologiae.” Serious students of Catholic theology: consider joining us as we plumb the depths of the Angelic Doctor’s most profound general treatment of moral theology, including the ultimate end of human life, the definition of the moral act in all its components, the concupiscible and irascible passions of the soul, the structure of the virtues both natural and supernatural, the goal of heroic sanctity put forth in the beatitudes, the gracious gifts of the Holy Spirit, law in its magnificent range of analogous forms (human, natural, eternal, revealed), and supernatural grace, the very foundation of specifically Christian morals. In this eight-week summer program we will read nearly every treatise in the Prima Secundae — a rare and enviable opportunity to see the whole domain of morality as the Church’s greatest theologian conceived it.
For details, visit our website.
Francis Beckwith recounts a story that is perfectly Ralph.
Thomas Hibbs, a former-student of Ralph McInerny’s (and current Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University), wrote an appreciation of Ralph that appeared in First Things magazine (link).
Ralph McInerny died yesterday morning, January 29, 2010, at around 6:30 a.m. A towering figure in the study of Aquinas. More information will be posted as I’m able to obtain and shape it for publication.
The Dutch Thomist Leo Elders s.v.d. has collected some of his published and unpublished essays, written during the last thirty years or so. Together they comprise over 900 pages and are collected in two volumes, published by Éditions Parole et Silence and Les Presses Universitaires de l’IPC.
The volumes are entitled:
Au coeur de la philosophie de saint Thomas d’Aquin, Parole et Silence/Presses Universitaires de l’IPC, Paris, 2009, 357 p. ISBN 987-2-84573-792-1
Sur les traces de saint Thomas d’Aquin : Étude de ses commentaires bibliques. Thèmes théologiques, Parole et Silence/Presses Universitaires de l’IPC, Paris, 2009, 590 p. ISBN 987-2-84573-813-3
Here is the description of the theology-volume and the table of contents :
“Ce livre est le pendant du recueil Au coeur de la philosophie de saint Thomas, déjà publie par Parole et Silence et les presses de I’IPC. Le lecteur trouvera une série de neuf articles portant sur les leçons du Docteur Commun sur plusieurs textes de la Bible, sa doctrine de l’inspiration et sa méthode en exégèse. Ces essais montrent la grande richesse et la profondeur de ces commentaires, relativement peu étudiés. Une deuxième série de quatorze articles concerne des questions théologiques: la présence des Pères dans les écrits de Thomas, la paternité de Dieu, la christologie, sa doctrine de la Loi nouvelle comme la grâce du Saint-Esprit, la théologie de l’image de Dieu et d’autres études, par exemple celle sur l’influence des courants de la pensée philosophique sur l’expression de la foi. Elle nous permet de mettre en relief l’admirable aptitude de la philosophie de saint Thomas ä servir d’instrument dans l’élaboration de la doctrine de la foi. Dans leur ensemble, ces études laissent voir l’étonnante richesse, la profondeur, la catholicité et l’actualité de la théologie de saint Thomas.”
Content : “Inspiration et révélation selon saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 13-36 ; “Les commentaires bibliques de saint Thomas : le Principium Rigans montes et Hic est liber”, 37-56 ; “Introduction à l’Expositio super Isaiam ad litteram”,57 - 84 ; “Le commentaire de saint Thomas d’Aquin sur le Livre de Job”, 85-122 ; “L’actualité de la Lettre de saint Paul aux Romains selon la lectura super epistulam ad Romanos de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 123 - 140 ; “Saint Paul et la connaissance naturelle de Dieu par l’homme (Rm 1,18-32) selon le commentaire de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 141-166 ; “Les leçons de saint Thomas d’Aquin sur la Lettre aux Philippiens et la Lettre aux Colossiens”, 179 -192 ; “La lectura super epistulam ad Hebræos de saint Thomas d’Aquin, 193-223 ; “Thomas d’Aquin, commentateur de saint Paul”, 224-250 ; “Une recherche des racines de l’hétérodoxie et l’apport de la philosophie de saint Thomas”, 251-286 ; “Histoire et historicité dans la théologie de l’histoire de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 287-298 ; “Vie active et vie contemplative selon saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 299-316 ; “Saint Thomas d’Aquin et les Pères de l’ Église”, 317-350 ; “La présence de saint Jean Chrysostome dans les oeuvres de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 351-378 ; “Saint Jérôme et saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 379-416 ; “La théologie de saint Thomas d’Aquin de l’image de Dieu”, 417-442 ; “La signification de la paternité de Dieu dans la théologie spirituelle de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 443-458 ; “La christologie de la Somme contre les Gentils”, 459-492 ; “Le jugement dernier dans la théologie de saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 493-508 ; “La Loi Nouvelle est la grâce du Saint-Esprit”, 509-524 ; “Les racines de l’amour divin pour la vie selon saint Thomas d’Aquin”, 525-537 ; “Saint Thomas et l’évangélisation des païens”, 538-554 ; “La doctrine de saint Thomas et l’évangélisation de l’Amérique”, 555-569 .
Henry Stachyra of Stillwater, Minnesota, worked for many years at Thomas Loome’s famous Loome’s Theological Booksellers. He now has his own bookselling company, Henry’s Books (link), which includes a collection of Aquinas texts (link) as well as one devoted to Thomism (link). Here is his site’s self-description:
Our specialties include Theology, Philosophy, Medieval and Patristic Studies, Greco-Roman and Judaica Studies and all related subject areas. In addition to these categories, we also have a general selection to choose from. We have 16 years of experience in buying and selling scholarly books in North America and abroad.
Go and check out this impressive young enterprise…
In 2002 Mark Johnson wrote a short article on the “Future of Thomistic Bibliography” in which he expressed the need for a database of Thomistic literature and offered some proposals to implement such a database.
About nine years earlier, the Corpus Thomisticum Project, under the direction of Enrique Alarcón had already begun to publish an updated alphabetical list and in 2007 the first issue of Thomistica: A Yearbook of Thomistic Bibliography was published, which contains summaries and reviews of a large part of the literature, appearing in 2006.
Now, combining many features of both the alphabetical list and the printed Yearbook, a genuine database has been put online. The database currently contains almost 22000 entries, of which some 5000 with summaries and reviews.
While all users have access to the most common types of searches, subscribers of the printed yearbook may login as advanced users, with access to additional types of searches. One can also suggest new publications for inclusion in the database.
In short, the Thomistic community is again indebted to Enrique Alarcon and his team for this wonderful tool!
Jump over to my personal site for a humbling reminder. This one was too funny not to cross-post.
I've owned the Internet domain name "thomistica.net" for about ten years, and have also owned the name "thomistica.com" (but no longer) and "thomistica.org" (not for long!). I will not be renewing my ownership of this latter name when it is scheduled to lapse in early 2010. Enrique Alarcon's wonderful Thomistica: An International Yearbook of Thomistic Bibliography is located at http://thomistica.info. The top-level domain (TLD) of ".org" is not what I am attempting to do here at thomistica.net, so it does not make sense to keep it.
So might you want the Internet domain name "thomistica.org"? Please let me know, and we can make arrangements.
In from Adriano Oliva, OP, praeses of the Leonine Commission, the announcement for this winter’s “Journée Thomas d’Aquin” in Paris. Dedicated to the memory of Louis-Jacques Bataillon, OP, the program is heavy on medieval preaching and the contributions of Fr Bataillon:
A lovely PDF of the conference program, with details and notification of the new location for the conference, can be found here.
Under the direction of the Sacra Doctrina Project
