The Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum is hosting a conference next year, “New Heavens and a New Earth: Scientific and Theological Eschatology.”
Specialists and graduate students are encouraged to submit paper proposals for breakout sessions, prior to January 30, 2023, by email to TIinfo@pust.it. Further information on the conference theme, invited speakers, and attendance can be found at this link.
The hosts of a special session at Kalamazoo ask for proposals to a special session at the 2023 Medieval Conference, "Thomas Aquinas I: Sacred Scripture and the Catena aurea."
Last year's sessions on the Catena aurea were a great success and the Thomas Aquinas Society is convening another session to continue exploring the role of the Catena aurea in Aquinas's thought. This is also a great occasion to make use of the newly formatted Catena aurea electronica, an excellent resource edited by Martin Morard: https://gloss-e.irht.cnrs.fr/php/livres-liste.php?id=catena.
The conference will be held May 11th to 13th at Western Michigan University, and the deadline for submitting abstracts is September 15th. Our session is scheduled to meet in person and does not have the capacity for virtual attendance.
Contact: John F. Boyle (jfboyle@stthomas.edu)
Modality: In person
This session will focus on Thomas Aquinas as an interpreter of Scripture with special attention to his Catena aurea.
For more details or to submit a proposal, see https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call.
Please consider submitting contributions to the following sessions at the upcoming 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 11–13, 2023, in Kalamazoo, MI. Please note that the deadline for submissions is September 15, 2022.
A total of 6 sessions will be devoted to Medieval philosophical and theological thought, especially that of Aquinas. One session in particular will be devoted to Aquinas’s Catena aurea. The sessions are sponsored by:
The Center for Thomistic Studies, c/o S.J. Jensen, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX), 3800 Montrose, Houston, TX 77006-4696. Email: jensensj@stthom.edu. Three sessions will be devoted to any topic about the philosophy of Aquinas, his sources, or contemporary applications of his thought.
The Thomas Aquinas Society, c/o John F. Boyle, Department of Catholic Studies, 55-S, University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105. Email: jfboyle@stthomas.edu. For these sessions, proposals on any topic dealing with Aquinas are welcome, with one session devoted to Catena aurea.
All papers will be delivered face-to-face; online format is unavailable.
Papers are 20 minutes in length.
Paper submissions must include a 300 word abstract, and a short description (50 words) for public view on the meeting site, should the proposal be accepted.
Deadline for submissions: 15 Sep 2022.
Papers must be submitted through the Western Michigan University website. Please go to icms.confex.com/icms/2023/cfp.cgi Once on this webpage, you must go to “Session Selection” and then click on
“Sponsored and Special Sessions of Papers.” From the drop-down menu, you must select one of the following three possibilities: “Thomas Aquinas I: The Catena aurea”; “Thomas Aquinas II-III”; or “Thomistic Philosophy I-III.” From the new drop-down, click “Begin a Submission,” and then follow instructions.
The Kalamazoo conference is the largest congress for Medieval Studies in the world.
Session Title: Mendicant Friars and the Secular Church: Controversy, Coexistence, Collaboration
Sponsorship: Co-sponsored by Episcopus and The Franciscan Institute
(Note: While the Franciscan Institute is a co-sponsor, we are keen to attract papers that address the Dominicans, or indeed the other mendicant orders.)
Contact: William H. Campbell (whc7@pitt.edu)
Modality: In person
Summary: From c. 1215 onward, the Latin church had two parallel structures for reaching the laity, the seculars and the mendicants. As the latter exploded in numbers and popularity, the two became rivals, sometimes espousing radically different agendas for reform and concepts of the nature of the church itself. From time to time, this broke into open conflict. But the two could often co-operate, as when a parish priest invited a friar to preach, or even overlap, as when a friar was elected to the episcopate. Papers are invited that address the nature of these complex relationships.
Submissions: Submit abstracts to the Confex Portal (https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call) before the hard deadline of September 15, 2022. Earlier, informal expressions of interest to the session organizer are also welcome.
From the Thomistic Institute in Rome and Ibadan, Nigeria, comes a call for papers:
“St. Thomas Aquinas has held a central place in Catholic thinking for generations. But what is his role in the diverse and globalised reality of today’s world and the contemporary Church? The Dominican University, Ibadan, and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute are pleased to invite you to the international colloquium for the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St. Thomas Aquinas titled “Thomas Aquinas: Medieval Thinker in the 21st Century Global Village”. The colloquium will take place in Ibadan, Nigeria, on 25-26 January 2023.”
The deadline for paper proposals is October 31, 2022. See here for more details.
April 21–22, 2023, a conference will be held in Rome on The Concept of “Ius" in Thomas Aquinas, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute. Speakers include Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP; Fr. Dominic Legge, OP; and Russell Hittinger. The call-for-papers deadline is December 15, 2022. More information can be found here: https://angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/event/call-for-papers-the-concept-of-ius/
Now that the interest in father Garrigou-Lagrange is rapidly growing, not least due to the many English translations by Matthew Minerd, scholarly articles are appearing as well.
The latest issue of Archivum Fratrum Predicatorum (2021) contains three highly interesting articles.
Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi continues his research on the formation of a distinctively Dominican and Thomistic idea of mysticism which father Garrigou-Lagrange developed in the late 1910’s and early 1920’s and which culminated in his Perfection chrétienne et contemplation. His most recent article (“La contemplation selon la moderne École dominicaine de spiritualité. La querelle mystique au temps de la suprematie des theses Garrigou-Lagrangiennes (1923-1928)”, 349-376) discusses the aftermath of the publication of the book and its reception by the Jesuit order.
The two other articles draw heavily on the archives of the Dominican Order but also on the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII, which were opened to the public in 2020. Father Augustin Laffay (“Le père Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange et Maria Sieler (1939-1945): La rencontre romaine d’un théologien et d’une mystique”, 377-400) explores a hitherto unknown conversation between father Garrigou-Lagrange and the Austrian mystic Maria Sieler, whose “understanding of divine things … is similar to the language of Garrigou-Lagrange’s spiritual theology”.
Philippe Chenaux (“Maritain devant le Saint-Office: le rôle du père Garrigou-Lagrange, OP”, 401-420) explores Garrigou-Lagrange’s role as censor of Maritain’s political writings by way of analysis of two vota which Garrigou-Lagrange composed in the late 1950’s as a consultor of the Holy Office. These vota were to serve as a preparation for a list of erroneous propositions to be published but without mentioning Maritain’s name. The article contains a letter written in November 1957 by Garrigou-Lagrange at the behest of Pius XIII to Maritain but never send to him. Although Garrigou-Lagrange recognizes Maritain’s best intentions, he also remarks that Maritain has insufficiently taken into account the principles of catholic doctrine and also the fact that many of Maritain’s disciples have defended more extreme positions on the basis of his writings. In the letter Garrigou-Lagrange asks Maritain to write an article in a major journal (“dans une grande Revue”) in which Maritain clarifies his position in light of the encyclicals of Leo XIII. Garrigou-Lagrange adds that “this would be the best way to prevent Integral Humanism from being withdrawn from publication.”
Commemorative medal for the 6th centenary of the canonization in 1923
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Annual Conference Meeting for the Year 2022
Held in Conjunction with the Annual Meeting
of the
American Catholic Philosophical Association
New Orleans, LA
November 17-20, 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Program Committee for the Society for Thomistic Natural Philosophy is accepting proposals for scholarly presentations at our Annual Conference held in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Proposed presentations may be on any topic in the philosophy of nature or the history or philosophy of science considered from a generally Aristotelian and or a Thomistic perspective. Proposals should include a title and a one-page abstract of the presentation, along with the name, academic affiliation, and email address of the proposed presenter. Proposals must be submitted by April 15, 2022, to be considered. Decisions will be made before June 1, 2022.
Submit proposals to Dr. Daniel C. Wagner, President of the Society for Thomistic Natural Philosophy, at dcw002@aquinas.edu
The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism (S.M.A.R.T.) is planning a session for the 2022 meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in New Orleans, LA, 17-20 November 2022. It is accepting papers on all aspects of Thomism from 1274 to the publication of the Carmelite Cursus Theologiae (1631-1701).
Please send papers and direct enquiries to Domenic D’Ettore at ddettore@marian.edu. Papers and abstracts received by 15 May 2022 will receive full consideration. Selection preference will be given to complete papers. The submission of an abstract alone should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae. A final version of an accepted paper is required by 15 September 2022 in order to facilitate a response paper which will be given during the conference session.
This summer the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC is offering two graduate colloquia, one in philosophy, and another in theology:
Gyula Klima is offering a graduate colloquium on “Eucharistic Metaphysics” July 17-23, 2022: https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events/graduate-colloquium-klima
Joseph Wawrykow is offering a similar colloquium on “Aquinas and Bonaventure on Christ and the Holy Spirit” July 24-30, 2022: https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events/graduate-colloquium-wawrykow
Additionally, we’re also offering a fellowship that is aimed at graduate students more broadly (including MA students and students in professional schools), which is called the “Civitas Dei Fellowship.” This year’s theme is ‘The City of God in Modernity: Culture and Ecclesiology.’ The fellowship will take place June 12-17, 2022. https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events/civitas-dei-summer-fellowship-22
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