Pope appoints new members of the International Theological Commission

Today the Vatican released the names of the 30 members of the International Theological Commission for the new five-year term (2014-2019). Serge-Thomas Bonino, OP, will be returning as the secretary general of the ITC. A press release from the ITC about all of this can be found here. Members of the ITC are proposed by the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in consultation with national bishops' conferences and officially appointed by the pope. The prefect of the CDF serves as the Commission's ex officio president.

Below is the list of the members for 2014-2019 term (taken from the ITC press release):

• - Fr. Serge Thomas BONINO, OP, Secretary General, France.
• - Fr. Terwase Henry AKAABIAM, Nigeria;
• - Sr. Prudence ALLEN, RSM, United States of America;
• - Sr Alenka ARKO, Loyola Community, Russian Federation - Slovenia;
• - Msgr. Antonio Luiz CATELAN FERREIRA, Brazil;
• - Msgr. Piero CODA, Italy;
• - Fr. Lajos DOLHAI, Hungary;
• - Fr. Peter DUBOVSKÝ, SJ, Slovakia;
• - Fr. Mario Angel FLORES RAMOS, Mexico;
• - Fr. Carlos María GALLI, Argentina;
• - Fr. Krzysztof GÓŹDŹ, Poland;
• - Fr. Gaby Alfred HACHEM, Lebanon;
• - Fr. Thomas KOLLAMPARAMPIL, CMI, India;
• - Fr. Koffi Messan Laurent KPOGO, Togo;
• - Fr. Oswaldo MARTÍNEZ MENDOZA, Colombia;
• - Professor Moira Mary McQUEEN, Canada – Great Britain;
• - Fr. Karl Heinz MENKE, Germany;
• - Fr. John Junyang PARK, Korea;
• - Fr. Bernard POTTIER, SJ, Belgium;
• - Fr. Javier PRADES LÓPEZ, Spain;
• - Professor Tracey ROWLAND, Australia;
• - Professor Héctor Gustavo SÁNCHEZ ROJAS, SCV, Perú;
• - Professor Marianne SCHLOSSER, Austria - Germany;
• - Fr. Nicholaus SEGEJA M'HELA, Tanzania;
• - Fr. Pierangelo SEQUERI, Italy;
• - Fr. Željko TANJIĆ, Croatia;
• - Fr. Gerard Francisco P. TIMONER III, OP, Philippines;
• - Fr. Gabino URIBARRI BILBAO, SI, Spain;
• - Fr. Philippe VALLIN, France;
• - Fr. Thomas G. WEINANDY, OFMCap., United States of America

Round-table on Pasquale Porro's "new" book on Aquinas

In 2012 Pasquale Porro published a book on Aquinas entitled Tommaso d'Aquino: un profilo storico-filosofico. So, the book is not "brand new" but it is fairly new. Porro teaches at the Università di Bari and at the Sorbonne. As many of our readers may know, his work in mediaeval philosophy is extensive.

The book on Aquinas does just what its title says. It takes the reader through Aquinas's works in chronological order, setting them in their historical context and drawing out what Porro takes to be their philosophical import.

In May 2013 the Centro Culturale di Milano sponsored a round-table discussion of Porro's book. The participants were Constantino Esposito (Università di Bari), who moderated, Onorato Grassi (Università Lumsa di Roma), Luca Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Piemonte Orientale), and, of course, Porro himself. You can watch the whole thing here.

Sr. Mary T. Clark, RSCJ, 1913-2014

Sr. Mary T. Clark, RSCJ (Oct. 23, 1913—Sept. 1, 2014) was the author of many books, longtime philosophy professor at Manhattanville College, the editor of An Aquinas Reader, and the Aquinas Medalist for the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1988. Here is a memorial notice. Manhattanville College maintains the Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy in her honor.

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.