Table Of ContentST. THOMAS AQUINAS
1274-1974
COMMEMORATIVE STUDIES
Foreword
by
Etienne Gilson
PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES
TORONTO, CANADA
1974
Editorial Board: Armand A. Maurer csb editor-in-chief,
Etienne Gilson, Joseph Owens cssr. Anton C. Pegis,
John F. Quinn csb, Edward Synan, James A. Weisheipl op
PRINTED BY UNIVERSA- WETTEREN- BElGIUM
IUSl\IS OF GHENT· THE LOUVRE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
These volumes have been published with the help of a grant from the Canada Coun
cil.
Thanks are also due to the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, for its
generous support through its Varsity Fund.
CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE
Foreword by Etienne Gilson
I
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THE LIFE OF ST. THOMAS
The Legend of St. Thomas Aquinas
Edmund Colledge, O.S.A.
Papst Johannes XXII. und Thomas von Aquin. Zur Geschichte
der Heiligsprechung des Aquinaten A ngelus Walz. O.P.
II
1 3
29
THE WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS
De Substantiis Separatis: Title and Date
Francis J. Lescoe
Les Sermons de Saint Thomas et Ia Catena A urea
L. J. Bataillon, 0. P.
5 1
67
"Versus" dans les CEuvres de Saint Thomas
C. M. Joris Vansteenkiste, O.P.
77
La Lettre de Saint Thomas a l'Abbe du Montcassin
A ntoine Dondaine, O.P.
Ill
87
EXEGETICAL STUDIES
Quasi Definitio Substantiae
Etienne Gilson 1 11
The Separated Soul and its Nature in St. Thomas
A nton C. Pegis 131
"Ecclesia" et "Populus (Fidelis)" dans I'Ecclesiologie de S. Tho-
mas
Yves Congar, O.P. 159
Les Idees Divines dans l'CEuvre de S. Thomas
L. B. Geiger, O.P. 175
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IV
CONTENTS
ST. THOMAS AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Aquinas as Aristotelian Commentator
Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R.
The Nicomachean Ethics
2 1 3
and Thomas Aquinas
Vernon J. Bourke 239
St. Thomas and Ulpian's Natural Law
Michael Bertram Crowe 261
Fatalism and Freedom according to Nemesius and Thomas Aqui-
nas
Gerard Verbeke 283
The Doctrine of Filioque in Thomas Aquinas and its Patristic An
tecedents. An Analysis of Summa Theologiae, Part I, QuesJaroslav Pelikan
tion 36
315
Unitas, Aequalitas, Concordia vel Connexio. Recherches sur les
Origines de Ia Theorie Thomiste des Appropriations
Jean Chatil/on 337
St. Thomas and the Habitus-Theory of the Incarnation
Saint Thomas et ses Predecesseurs Arabes
Saint Thomas d'Aquin et I a
Walter H. Principe, C.S.B. 381
Louis Gardet 4 1 9
Metaphysique d'Avicenne
Georges C. A nawati, O.P. 449
Motion in a Void: Aquinas and A verroes
James A . Weisheipl, O.P. 467
CONTENTS
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VOLUME TWO
V ST. THOMAS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
William of Auvergne, John of La Rochelle and St. Thomas Aqui-
nas on the Old Law
The
Quinque Viae
Beryl Smalley 1 1
and some Parisian Professors of Philosophy
William Dunphy 73
Certitude of Reason and Faith in St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas
John Francis Quinn, C.S.B. 105
John Pecham and the Background of Aquinas's
Mundi
De A eternitate
Ignatius Brady, O.F.M.
141
Un Adversaire de Saint Thomas: Petrus Joannis Olivi
Marie-Therese d'Alverny
1 79
Brother Thomas, the Master, and the Masters
Edward A. Synan
VI
The
ST. THOMAS IN HISTORY:
219
14TH TO 19TH CENTURIES
Summa Confesso;·um
zation of the Moral
of John of Freiburg and the PopulariTeaching of St. Thomas and of some of
his Contemporaries
Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. 245
The Unity of a Science: St. Thomas and the Nominalists
Armand A. Maurer, C.S.B.
Galileo and the Thomists
William A. Wallace, O.P.
269
293
Documents sur les Origines et les Premieres Annees de la Com-
mission Leonine
Pierre M. de Contenson, O.P. 331
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VII
CONTENTS
ST. THOMAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Creation et Histoire
M. D. Chenu, O.P. 391
St. Thomas' Doctrine of Subject and Predicate: a Possible Starting
Point for Logical Reform and Renewal Henry Veatch 401
I I Nuovo Problema dell'Essere e Ia Fondazione della Metafisica
Cornelio Fabro, C.S.S. 423
Analektik und Dialektik. Zur Methode des Thomistischen und
Hegelschen Denkens
Bernhard Lakebrink 459
Guide-Lines from St. Thomas for Theology Today
E. L. Mascall
Notes on Contributors
Index
489
503
511
FOREWORD
For a rather short l�{e (1225-1274) Thomas Aquinas has had an endless posterity of disciples, historians, and commentators; and let us not
forget the editors of particular works. or even qf Opera Omnia. who can
hardly wait for the end qf an edition before declaring it out-q{-date and
undertaking a new one. In this Seventh Centenary of Thomas' death,
the PontUical Institute qf" Mediaeval Studies in Toronto wishes to join
the many institutions and learned publications which, the whole world
over. are commemorating the event.
Some <�f these publications will chiefly test({y to the faithfulness of
the Thomistic school to its master, but most of them will rather express
the conviction that, like Dante, Thomas Aquinas and his work are a
landmark universally recognized in the history qf" western culture. There
are also countless private readers who have become friends qf Aquinas
for life through the simple reading qf the Summa Theologiae. Many
years ago. while in New York, I paid a visit to the author of The
Mediaeval Mind. a History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages. I knew that H. 0. Taylor was not a prq(essional historian. but a lawyer. and I wanted to ask him how. though not a
Catholic. he had acquired such an insight into the spirit qf the Middle
Ages. I still hear him answering in all simplicity: "You know, I have
read the whole Summa Theologiae, and when I came to the passage of
the Third Part where the work was left interrupted, I actually cried."
Whatever tht!ir inspiration. all the homages to the memory qf the
Angt!lic Doctor will he found to have in common one paradoxical
feature. namely the diversity of their subjects. That diversity is typical
l�( this many .fcu·ed man. He has been. .first qf all, a theologian, but also
a philosopher and a scientist. as this notion is .found in the Aristotelian
corpus. which included the science qf both nature and man. A mere
glance at the titles of the essays collected in these volumes will reveal
the astonishing variety <�{the subjects in which that theologian was interested. More remarkable still is the variety qf the methods, points qf
view. and principlt>s to which he resorted in handling them. To Desmrtes and his successors. philosophical method, scient(fic method, and
mathematical method are one and the same; to Thomas Aquinas and his
disciples. the method (�r each science. while respecting the common
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laws of logic, must adapt itself to the specific nature of its proper object:
extension in geometry, number in arithmetic, motion and change in
physics, life in the sciences of the soul and living things. This attitude is
typical of the methodological realism of Thomas Aquinas, and the
notion is easy to understand; but to see it at work and to conform to it is
quite another proposition. Like A ristotle before him, and William
James after him, Thomas Aquinas lived in the pluralistic universe
which is that of all true realists. To them, the mind adapts itself to the
native diversity of the universe instead of reducing it to the mind's own
unity. The universe is far from lacking order, but its order remains that
of an ordered diversity.
Etienne GILSON
Director of Studies and Professor Emeritus
of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Toronto
