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JAARBOEK 2016
Thomas Instituut te Utrecht
Jaargang 35
Henk J.M. Schoot (ed)
Editorial Board
Dr. H.J.M. Schoot (Editor-in-Chief)
Drs. S. Mangnus O.P.
Prof. dr. W.G.B.M. Valkenberg
Prof. dr. R.A. te Velde
Prof. dr. J.B.M. Wissink
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ISSN 09026-163X
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Henk J.M. Schoot
INTRODUCTION ………………………………….......... 5
Rik van Nieuwenhove
AQUINAS ON CONTEMPLATION:
A NEGLECTED TOPIC ………………………………….. 9
Lambert Hendriks
CAN GOD MAKE ACTING EASY? A REFLECTION ON
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ACTING FACILITER IN
RELATION TO INFUSED MORAL VIRTUES .…………. 35
Kevin Grove, C.S.C.
DESIRES, COUNSELS, AND CHRIST:
THE CHRISTOLOGY OF AQUINAS’ TREATMENT
OF THE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS ……….………….. 49
Anton ten Klooster
THE BEATITUDES AS ACTS OF THE VIRTUES IN
AQUINAS’ LECTURA ON MATTHEW.......................…….. 75
Michael Estler
THOMAS VON AQUIN: KONSEQUENTER LEHRER DER
BARMHERZIGKEIT. KONKRETE ASPEKTE EINER
DIAKONISCH-MISSIONARISCHEN PASTORAL……… 93
INTRODUCTION
Last year, in 2015, our Thomas Instituut celebrated its 25th
anniversary. The Institute was established in 1990, succeeding the
Working Group Thomas Aquinas (est. 1979), both of them founded
by the late prof. dr. Ferdinand de Grijs. This yearbook exists since
1981, and so this year we present our 35th volume.
The anniversary of our Institute was celebrated in two important
ways. First, we worked hard on translating Aquinas’s academic
sermons in Dutch. Mark-Robin Hoogland c.p., in cooperation with
Harm Goris and the undersigned, presented this translation in
December 2015. The Bishop of Rotterdam, mgr. dr. H. van den
Hende, who is also member of the board of the Thomas Foundation,
graciously received the first copy of this remarkable book: Thomas
van Aquino. De Academische Preken (Almere: Parthenon, 2015,
pp. 398).
Secondly, we organized yet another international
conference on Aquinas, our fifth since the first which was organized
in 1995. Some 60 scholars from all over the world gathered together
in Utrecht, 16-19 December 2015, to discuss the relationship
between acquired and infused moral virtues in Aquinas: The
Virtuous Life. Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral
Virtues. We had four days of intense study, celebrated the Eucharist
together and with the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese Utrecht,
mgr. Th.C. Hoogenboom, enjoyed a conference dinner, and walked
through downtown Utrecht under the guidance of an inspiring
quide. An important number of the lectures and papers that were
presented during this conference, will shortly be published under
the title of the conference, by Harm Goris and the undersigned, as
Volume XVII of our Publication Series with Peeters Publishers in
Louvain.
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Not all contributions to the conference could be included in the
conference volume, for various reasons. We are quite thankful that
we are able, in this yearbook, to present four of these studies, that
do very much merit to be published and read by a larger public.
Rik van Nieuwenhove, lecturer in theology at Mary Immaculate
College, University of Limerick, Ireland, is at present working on a
book on Contemplation in Aquinas. A first written fruit is presented
here. Van Nieuwenhove considers the intellectual virtue of
contemplation from the angle of acquired and infused virtues,
nature and grace: “Aquinas on Contemplation: A Neglected Topic”.
Lambert Hendriks, rector of the Major Seminary of Rolduc,
Diocese of Roermond, the Netherlands, considers the
characteristics of agere faciliter in relation to the infused moral
virtues. He poses the question “Can God make acting easy? A
Reflection on the Characteristics of Acting faciliter in relation to
infused moral virtues.”
Kevin Grove is at present fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for
Advanced Study. Grove studies Aquinas on the evangelical
counsels, proposing the relevance of Aquinas’s incarnational
Christology, i.e. his treatment of the teaching of Christ’s life as well
as his temptations, for their proper interpretation: “Desires,
Counsels, and Christ: The Christology of Aquinas’ treatment of the
Evangelical Counsels.”
Anton ten Klooster, Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, works at
our Institute on a dissertation on Aquinas’s commentary on
Matthew, especially the beatitudes. In this commentary the concept
of heroic, infused virtue is especially interesting and important. Ten
Klooster gives his first interpretation of this aspect of Aquinas’s
commentary: “The Beatitudes as Acts of the Virtues in Aquinas’s
Lectura on Matthew.”
The fifth and last contribution was sent in by Michael Estler, at
present parish priest in St. Georg, Germany (Diocese
INTRODUCTION 7
Rottenburg/Stuttgart), who recently defended his doctoral thesis on
Aquinas’s Rigans montes (Inaugural lectures, 1256). Estler
considers the relevance of Aquinas’s theology of divine mercy for
the present pastoral concerns regarding divorced and remarried
catholics: “Thomas von Aquin: Konsequenter Lehrer der
Barmharzigkeit. Konkrete Aspekte einer diakonisch-
missionarischen Pastoral.”
Concluding this introduction, let me express once more our
gratitude for all those who keep sustaining us in the work that we
do, here at the Thomas Instituut in Utrecht. This last academic year
has been remarkable and memorable in many respects; we hope that
our work will keep being fruitful. And please, if you want us to
consider any manuscripts that you would want us to consider
publishing, do not hesitate to send them to us. We will welcome
them.
July 26, 2016.
Henk J.M. Schoot,
Editor-in-Chief.
Description:3 Thomas Hibbs, “Interpretation of Aquinas's Ethics Since Vatican II” Accademia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino: 1990), 104-131; and Jean-Pierre. Torrell
