Nouvelle Revue Théologique1958-2003 free!

I stumbled across this last week. The Nouvelle Revue Théologique, published by the Institut d’Études Théologiques (Society of Jesus) in Brussels, has made all of its issues from 1958 to 2003 available for free download at its website. Readers of Thomistica.net may be especially interested in three articles by Fr. Pinckaers that appeared in NRT during these years: “Recherche de la signification véritable du terme ‘spéculatif’" (1959); “La vertu est tout autre chose qu'une habitude” (1960); “‘Une morale pour notre temps.’ À propos d'un livre récent” (1966).

A list of all the authors who have published between 1958 and 2014 can be found here. There is a drop-down box on this page that says (naturally enough) "All the authors." Click on it. Clicking on the names of any of the authors that are displayed will then take you to a page that will give you a list of links to the articles that they have published between 1958 and 2014 (but remember that only 1958-2003 is free).

Articulating Medieval Logic

Terence Parsons has published Articulating Medieval Logic with OUP: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/articulating-medieval-logic-9780199688845?cc=us&lang=en&   I've been looking forward to something like this from him since I heard him defend the first-order completeness of medieval logic at the APA several years ago.  I can't wait to read it.

First 14 volumes of Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âgeavailable online

In 1926 Étienne Gilson and Gabriel Théry, OP, founded the Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, a journal dedicated to the academic study of medieval thought. You can now access (for free) the complete text of the first 14 volumes (1926-1945) online at Gallica (a digital text archive of the Bibliothèque National de France). Although the plan, I think, was to publish one volume per year, this did not always happen. So, for instance, there is only one volume for 1935-1936.

Here is the table of contents for the first volume of 1926:

Ét. Gilson .... Pourquoi saint Thomas a critiqué saint Augustin .... 5

E. Longpré .... Thomas d'York et Matthieu d'Aquasparta .... 129

G. Théry .... Edition critique des pièces relatives au procès d'Eckhart contenues dans le manuscrit 33 b de la bibliothèque de Soest .... 269

M. D. Roland-Gosselin .... Sur la rédaction par Albert le Grand de sa dispute contre Averroès De Unitate intellectus et Summa theologiae, II, Tr. XIII, Q. 77, m. 3 .... 309

You can find a convenient list of the tables of contents for all the volumes (except 1929) here. I could be wrong but I believe that Gilson's article in the first volume ("Pourquoi saint Thomas a critiqué saint Augustin") is where he first uses the genial term "l'augustinisme avicennisant," i.e., "Avicennizing Augustinianism." On this same theme there is also in the 1929 volume his article "Les sources gréco-arabes del'Augustinisme avicennisant."

S.M.A.R.T.

The SMART meetings at the ACPA have been scheduled:

SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE THOMISM (S.M.A.R.T.)

2014 Annual ACPA Meeting

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill

400 New Jersey Ave. NW

 Washington, DC 20001

Friday Morning, 10 October 2014: 10am to 12 noon

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism I                                                   Congressional C 

Organizer & Chair: Thomas M. Osborne, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX)

Speaker:          Br. Raymund Snyder, O.P., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception  (Washington, DC)

                        “Article or Preamble? A Reconsideration of Cardinal Cajetan's Later Comments on the

                        Rational Demonstrability of the Immortal Soul”

Speaker:          Charles Douglas Robertson, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX)

                        "John Capreolus on the Formal Object of Metaphysics"

 Sunday Morning, 12 October 2014 9am to 11am

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism II                                             Olympic

Chair:              R. J. Matava, Christendom College.

Speaker:          Br. Innocent Smith, OP, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC)

                        “Doctrinal Preaching and the Summa Theologiae”

Speaker:          Domenic D'Ettore, Marian University

                        “Not a little confusing?: Sylvester of Ferrara’s Hybrid doctrine of Analogy.”

ACPA Meeting "Dispositions, Habits, and Virtues" (October 10-12, 2014)

The preliminary conference schedule is now online for the 2014 annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The conference will meet in Washington, D.C., hosted by The Catholic University of America, with the theme “Dispositions, Habits, and Virtues”. Registration information is here. Plenary speakers are Susan Haack, Timothy B. Noone, Daniel Dahlstrom, Marilyn McCord Adams, and the Aquinas Medalist is John Rist. For the second year, the conference has expanded its offerings, and there many satellite sessions on a variety of topics.

Riccardo Quinto (1961–2014)

In from Magdalena Bieniak (Warsaw, Poland) is the shocking news that the great Italian medievalist, Riccardo Quinto, has died. Riccardo was a champion of early 13th-century thought, especially Stephan Langton, and encouraged many of his students to pursue other early 13th-century figures (as Bieniak does with Hugh of St. Cher, OP).

Those who study Thomas Aquinas directly might not have come across the prolific work of Riccardo Quinto, but as a long-time professor in medieval philosophy at the University of Padova he is known by his first name alone in medieval philosophy circles: "Riccardo will know." This is a truly sad day.

His funeral was today, Monday, August 4, 2014, in the Italian city of Conegliano (Veneto), in the San Pio X Church.

The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2014

In from the people in Toronto is the program for this fall's Colloquium.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Session I (4:30 - 6:30)

Chair:  Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec, Montreal)
Speaker:  Blake Dutton (Loyola University Chicago): “Augustine on Knowledge of First Person Truths”
Commentator:  Susan Brower-Toland (Saint Louis University)

6:30 reception

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Session II (10:00 - 12:00)

Chair:  Mohammed Rustom (Carleton University)
Speaker:  Olga Lizzini (VU University Amsterdam): “Potency, Power, and Potentiality in Avicenna: Some Remarks”
Commentator:  Robert Wisnovsky (McGill University)

Session III (2:00 - 4:00)

Chair: Rachel Bauder (University of Toronto)
Geneviève Barrette (Université de Montréal): “On the esse/essentia Distinction: Could Hervaeus Natalis be a Thomist?”
Garrett Smith (Notre Dame University): “Petrus Thomae and the Problem of the plura aeterna”
Brian Embry (University of Toronto): “The Semi-Extrinsic Denomination View of Truth”

Session IV (4:15 - 6:15)

Chair: Scott McDonald (Cornell University)
Speaker: Jeff Brower (Purdue University): “Aquinas on Prime Matter and Individuation”
Commentator: Jorge Gracia (University of Buffalo)

The colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

Organizers: Deborah Black, Peter King, Martin Pickavé

Dominican Colloquium in Berkeley Concludes

A colloquium sponsored by the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley, on the intersection between philosophy and theology has just concluded.  Each main presenter was paired with a respondent in theology. Main talks by Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, Linda Zagzebski, Edward Feser, Fr. Michael Dodds, John Searle, Fr. Michał Paluch, Allred Freddoso, and John O’Callaghan received responses from Fr. Richard Schenk, Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, Fr. Simon Gaine, Steven Long, Fr. Michael Dodds, Matthew Levering, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, and Fr. Michael Sherwin, respectively. Over fifty breakout-session papers were also delivered. The main papers and responses, and a selection from the breakout papers, are to appear later in Nova et Vetera. The organizers consider this colloquium to be the first of an ongoing series, to be held every three years.

University of Dallas's Aquinas lectures now in print

In from Philipp Rosemann at the University of Dallas is the following news:

Are you aware of the fact that the University of Dallas now publishes its annual Aquinas Lecture, in a series of small books produced by St. Augustine's Press? For more info, have a look here.

The first lecture published is that of a scholar well-known to our visitors: John F. Boyle, who lectured on "Master Thomas Aquinas and the Fullness of Life." The books are published by St. Augustine's Press.

English translation of Bonaventure's Scriptum on Book 1 of the Sentences

In from Alexis Bugnolo is news that an English translation of Bonaventure's Scriptum on Book 1 of Peter Lombard's Sentences will appear in November of this year. The translation uses the critical edition from Quaracchi, and includes all the scholia and notes! Neat.

To find out more about the translation you can follow this link.

Some summer reading for you. . .

Back in 1979 the author Cullen Murphy spent some time with the people then working on the Leonine Commission, and published his long and informative article in the June edition of Harpers magazine, under the title of "All the Pope's Men: Putting Aquinas Together Again." In preparing the article he travelled to Europe and met all the truly great members of the Commission then working (Gauthier, the Fathers Dondaine, Fr Bataillon, Gils, et al.).

In 1995 Murphy gathered together many of his essays from over the years, and published them in a volume, Just curious: Essays (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), with "All the Pope's Men" republished, but with a short addendum wherein he provided an update from Fr William A. Wallace, OP, who had been his handler years before.

Somehow or other I got ahold of a PDF of the essay as reprinted in Just Curious (pp. 133–167) and think that no harm is done in providing it here. It is written for the general reader, but visitors to our site will surely nod their heads in recognition over the points made in Murphy's piece.

You can download the PDF here. It's a wonderful read, and sure to make you eager for the appearance of vol. 44/1, containing Thomas's sermons.

Cullen Murphy's Just Curious (1995)

CTSA call for papers for Thomas Aquinas Interest Group

From Holly Coolman of PC comes details about next year's CTSA Convention on the ensus fidelium and the CTSA's Thomas Aquinas Interest Group.

The Thomas Aquinas Interest Group at the Catholic Theological Society of America invites proposals for papers on the thought of Aquinas, papers which may or may not address the 2015 Convention theme of senses fidelium (PDF).

Aquinas is not usually the first source to which theology turns in consideration of the sensus fidelium. Is this because Aquinas has little to offer? Or have certain possibilities been overlooked? The following quote from Joseph Ratzinger on Thomas’s understanding of sacra doctrina might serve as a gloss on the convention theme; proposers may want to reflect on it in formulating proposals, but should not consider it as setting a fixed parameter:

"It [sacra doctrina] is, so to speak, dependent on the ‘knowledge of the saints’ and on their vision.… The work of theologians is in this sense always ‘secondary’ to the actual experience of the saints. Without that point of reference, without that inner anchorage in similar experience it loses its character of reality.... Theology becomes a mere intellectual game and also loses its character as science without the realism of the saints, without their contact with the reality that is at issue here” (Ratzinger, To Look on Christ)

Submission Guidelines:

• Proposal should be not more than 250 words.
• You should also include a 100 words précis that will be posted on the CTSA website should your paper be accepted.
• Include full name and contact information of all participants, including e-mail.
• Indicate whether your presenters will be requiring A/V equipment. 

Submission deadline: September 1, 2014. Please submit proposals to: Holly Taylor Coolman at htc@providence.edu and Michon Matthiesen at mmmatthiesen@umary.edu.
You will be notified by September 14, if your proposal has been accepted.