Henry Stachyra's book business has just released another catalogue (no. 21) that has many critical, 'canonical' editions of medieval thinkers, including the whole first-half of Aquinas's Leonine Edition.
Read MoreIf you want to get your library's collection of Leonine editions up-to-date (including the new volume 44, 1), now is the time. Take a peek.
Read MoreThe longtime labors of Fr. Louis-Jacques Bataillon, OP, have been brought to birth by Adriano Oliva and the other workers at the Leonine Commission. Volume 44, 1 is here, and it's jam-packed with fascinating information.
Read MoreJörgen Vijgen found Garrigou-Lagrange in Rome. Follow his journey.
Read MoreToday 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):
Thanks to Santiago Argüello we can order up the newly available volume 44, 1 of the Leonine Edition, containing Thomas's individual sermons.
Read MoreLeafing through my family's Jerusalem Bible I found a pamphlet from Lent of 1975 that left me bug-eyed. I was about to turn fourteen years of age, and was a dutiful if unenthused Catholic. Our family went to a Lenten service at church. The rest I'll tell you now.
Read MoreOtto Herman Pesch, the preeminent Catholic ecumenist of the 1960's and 1970's, and a sincere proponent of the teaching of Thomas Aquinas on grace and justification, has died in Munich.
Read MoreIn 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 (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.
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).
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.
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