Cleaning up my ever-growing PDF collection I came across a joyous article from 1979 on the efforts of the Leonine Commission. It's a short and informative read, and will bring a summery smile to you.
Read MoreThe CTSA's Thomas Aquinas Interest Group has issued a call for papers for next summer's Convention, which is devoted to the topic of the sensus fidelium.
Read MoreThere is a nice scan of Santiago Ramirez, O.P.'s article "The Authority of St. Thomas Aquinas" available at the Internet Archive (here). Ramirez's piece appeared in the January issue of The Thomist in 1952. Another scan of it had been online for a while (I can't remember where now) but the one at the Internet Archive is far superior. I don't know how long it has been up there but, judging by the number of downloads (only 11 as of today), I would guess that it has not been up for very long.
Back in February Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, OP posted here at Thomistica on the colloquium that the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California will be hosting this July. (Fr. Bryan teaches theology at the DSPT). The colloquium is entitled "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Dialogue between Philosophy and Theology in the 21st Century" and will be held July 16-20. Since Fr. Bryan posted about it several months ago I thought it would be a good idea to remind our readers about it.
You can find further information and register for the colloquium here at the DSPT website. Fr. Bartholomew de la Torre, OP informs me that there are new items up on the colloquium page. So, you might want to check it out. From a quick glance, one new thing I noticed on the page are some short videos featuring a few of the friars and a student of the DSPT talking about the relationship between philosophy and theology. I also see that the abstracts for the papers are now up.
Found a near twenty year-old video clip to illustrate how Thomas's doctrine of the discrete acts of will works. Which act of will is this?
Read MoreThe Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome is hosting a conference titled "Recovering Causality: Historical Sources and Systematic Challenges from a Thomistic Perspective" June 24-26. This looks like an excellent conference. The 3-day event is open to the public and participants are asked to contribute a very modest 30 euro donation. You can find a PDF of the conference flyer with a complete schedule and list of speakers here. If you have questions or would like to pre-register, you can contact Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP at prefetto.biblio@pust.it (copy and paste please).
A few events taking place in June and July may be of interest to our readers.
On June 7 there will be a meeting of the Thomas Aquinas Society of Ireland/Cairde Thomáis Naofa at the Ely University Centre in Dublin. For more information go here.
The Department of Philosophy of Marquette University will be hosting a workshop on al-Fārābī July 11-13. For more information go here.
Eleonore Stump will be giving a lecture entitled "Is Justice Enough? Aquinas on Justice and Care" at Australian Catholic University on July 16. For more information go here.
If you are organizing or aware of an event that you think would be of interest to scholars of Aquinas or mediaeval thought, please feel free to contact us about it. You can email me (joseph.trabbic@avemaria.edu) or any of our contributors.
Therese Cory has given me permission to announce that she has accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame. She will start there after her Humboldt fellowship. It is exciting that there will be another Thomist at Notre Dame, and a particularly good one. I am currently reading her Aquinas on Human Knowledge, which so far is excellent.
An assortment of essays titled "Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP: Teacher of Thomism" is offered by the free online journal Educational Theoria. The essays are available in a single PDF here.
Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.: A Biographical Sketch
Richard A. Peddicord, O.P.
My Personal Memories of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Joseph M. de TorreReginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Subsistence
Christopher AlbrightReginald Garrigou-Lagrange on the Real Distinction
Jude Chua Soo MengGarrigou-Langrange’s General Proof of God’s Existence
+F. F. CentoreReginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Physical Premotion
Steven A. LongReginald Garrigou-Lagrange and the Renewal of the Contemplative Life
+James ArrajGarrigou-Lagrange OP and la vie théologale
Romanus Cessario OPGarrigou-Langrange, Leo XIII and Liberalism
Thomas Crean OP
The journal, Theological Studies is giving away all of its content in PDF form for the next three months.
Read MoreThe Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism (S.M.A.R.T.) is planning a session for the 2014 meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., 9-12 October 2014. It is accepting papers on all aspects of Thomism from 1274 to the publication of the Carmelite Cursus Theologiae (1631-1701), with a preference for the period from John Capreolus (d. 1444) to John of St. Thomas (1589-1644). Please send papers and direct enquiries to Thomas Osborne at osborntm[at]stthom[dot]edu.
The 24th Annual Aquinas Lecture at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, will be given by Dr. Diana Fritz-Cates, Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at The University of Iowa, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7:30 pm PST (10:30 pm EST). Entitled “Hatred in the Light of Love: A Thomistic Analysis,” the live-streamed presentation will present a conceptual and ethical analysis of hatred, based on the moral psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Under the direction of the Sacra Doctrina Project
