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The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie: Concerning the
Truth of Dogma and the Nature of Theology retrieves the most
important and largely forgotten exchanges in the mid-20th-century
debate surrounding ressourcement thinkers. It makes available new
translations of works by the leading Thomists in the exchange:
Dominican Fathers Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Michel Labourdette,
Marie-Joseph Nicolas, and Raymond Bruckberger. In addition to a
lengthy historical and theological introduction, the volume
contains sixteen articles, thirteen of which have never appeared in
English. All the major critical responses of the Dominican Thomists
to the nouvelle théologie are here presented chronologically
according to the primary debates carried on, respectively, in the
journals Revue Thomiste and Angelicum. A lengthy introduction
describes the unfolding of the entire debate, article by article,
and explains and references the ressourcement interventions.
Unfortunately, the history of this important debate is largely
surrounded by polemics, half-truths, caricatures, and journalistic
soundbites. In the articles gathered in this volume, along with the
accompanying introduction, the Toulouse and Roman Dominicans speak
in their own voice. The central theses that define the two sides of
the debate are sympathetically set forth. However, the texts
gathered here show the immense lengths to which the Thomists went
to initiate an authentic and fraternal theological dialogue with
the nouveaux théologiens. Frs. Labourdette and Nicolas repeatedly
argued for the importance of ressourcement work: they applauded its
historical efforts, and they were generally sympathetic and
complementary (although always pointed and persistent in gently
expressing their concerns). Even Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange—whose
infamous intervention is remembered as being a theological "atomic
bomb"—is revealed as being no more guilty of escalation than the
Dominicans' interlocutors in their own responses to him and Fr.
Labourdette. This volume will greatly aid in the task of
theological and historical reconstruction and will, undoubtedly,
assist in a certain rapprochement between the two sides, as the
essential texts, concerns, and theological arguments are made
available in their entirety to professional and lay Anglophone
readers.
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St Augustine of Hippo; Translated by Matthew K Minerd; Commentary by Pine O P Fr Gregory
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The presentation of the life and work of any great thinker is a
formidable task, even for a renowned scholar. This is all the more
the case when such a historical figure is a saint and mystic, such
as Friar Thomas Aquinas. In this volume, Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell,
OP, masterfully takes up the strenuous task of presenting such a
biography, providing readers with a detailed, scholarly, and
profound account of the thirteenth-century theologian whose works
have not ceased to draw the attention of both friend and foe! In
this volume, Fr. Torrell, an internationally renowned expert on St.
Thomas, speaks to neophytes and experts alike: for those new to
Thomas's works, he paints an engaging human portrait of Friar
Thomas in his historical context; for specialists, he provides a
rigorous scholarly account of contemporary research concerning
Thomas's life and work. This new edition of Fr. Torrell's
widely-lauded text involved significant revision, expansion, and
bibliographical updates in light of the latest scholarship. The
Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present such an
eminent specialist's mature synthesis concerning Friar Thomas
Aquinas.
Every discipline, including theology, requires a synthetic overview
of its acquisitions and open questions, a kind of "topography" to
guide the new student and refresh the gaze of specialists. In his
Synthèse dogmatique, Fr. Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP (1910–2001)
presents just such a map of Thomistic theology, focusing on the
central topics of Dogmatic Theology: The One and Triune God,
Christology, Mariology, Ecclesiology, the Sacraments, and the Last
Things. Drawing on decades of research and teaching, Fr. Nicolas
synthetically presents these topics from a faithfully Thomistic
perspective. While broadly and genially engaging the theological
literature of the 20th century, he nonetheless remains deeply
indebted to the Thomistic school that would have formed him in his
youth as a theologian. This provides the reader with an
unparalleled theological vision, masterfully bringing forth, at
once, what is new and what is classical. Catholic Theology: A
Dogmatic Synthesis will be published in English as a multi-volume
work. In this second volume, Fr. Nicolas discusses the mysteries of
faith directly connected with the Redemptive Incarnation: the
formation of orthodox Christological dogma in the course of the
first centuries of the Church; the nature of the Hypostatic Union;
the latter's effects in Christ's holiness, knowledge, and incarnate
activity; the mariological mysteries connected to the divine
maternity; the soteriological meaning of Christ's vicarious
satisfaction; and the eschatological return of Christ in Glory.
Gathering the work of a lifetime into a single pedagogical
narrative, Fr. Nicolas's Catholic Theology: A Dogmatic Synthesis
provides a resource for students and scholars alike. In view of the
hyper-specialization of theology today, this series of volumes
provides readers with a synthetic and sapiential overview of the
fundamentals of dogmatic theology from a robust and profound
Thomistic perspective.
Although not well-known in the English-speaking world, Fr. Ambroise
Gardeil, OP (1859-1931) was a Dominican of significant influence in
French Catholic thought at the turn of the 20th century.
Conservative theologians like Frs. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP,
Michel Labourdette, OP, Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP and many others
hailed him as a careful expositor of the supernaturality of faith,
a defender of the theological nature of rational apologetics, and a
spiritual master. The True Christian Life provides a thorough and
stirring introduction to Fr. Gardeil's work in spiritual theology.
The volume was originally published posthumously through the
collaboration of Fr. Gardeil's nephew, Fr. Henri-Dominique Gardeil,
OP and Jacques Maritain. Fr. Ambroise, prior to beginning work on
his masterpiece on spiritual experience, La Structure de l'âme et
l'expérience mystique, drafted nearly eight-hundred pages that
would have set forth a full presentation of moral-ascetical
theology. While drafting this massive work, his reflection on the
soul's receptive capacity for grace led him to the two-volume
study, La Structure, and he never was able to finish his original
designs for a comprehensive study of the Christian moral-spiritual
life. Soon after his death, his nephew gathered several essays from
the Revue thomiste and Revue de Jeunes, along with a
complete-but-unpublished study on prayer. Drafting a lengthy
introduction on the basis of Fr. Ambroise's unpublished notes, Fr.
Henri-Dominique assembled a volume of moral / spiritual theology
that sets out the principles of many important themes: divinization
through grace, Christian prudence /conscience, the virtue of
religion, devotion, and prayer. In this volume, the reader will
find a clear and rhetorically striking presentation of the central
mysteries of the spiritual life, presented with stirring and
beautiful rhetoric by a theological master from the Thomist
tradition.
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