{"title":"The Implicit Transcendental: Beauty and the Trinity in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas","authors":"Daniel Parkinson","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900226","url":null,"abstract":"HE TRANSCENDENTALS are elaborated by Thomas Aquinas as “additions” to being (ens), such that “the one” (unum), “the true” (verum), and “the good” (bonum) are all explicitly said to be “convertible” with being in reality, and “add” to it only in idea, by expressing something not explicit in the term “being” itself. They are those perfections in which all existing things participate as a necessary condition of their existence, and the coextension of the transcendentals with being means that they are also convertible with one another. Therefore, Aquinas states that the true and the good, for instance, are convertible with one another in subject, and differ from one another only logically. In his most extensive discussions of “the beautiful” (pulchrum), Aquinas states in very similar terms that it is identical with goodness in a thing, differing only logically because it adds to the good a relation to the cognitive power. Likewise, beauty and goodness are said to be convertible with","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131867047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Center Is Jesus Christ Himself: Essays on Revelation, Scripture and Evangelization in Honor of Robert P. Imbelli ed. by Andrew Meszaros (review)","authors":"Michael A. Dauphinais","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900233","url":null,"abstract":"thought and modern democratic liberalism—one notes in McCormick’s volume the sort of hopes and longings one associates with Jacques Maritain or John Courtney Murray. McCormick, however, is ultimately more sober or realistic about such hopes being realized in our troubled age. Sounding something like Plato, in the final pages of his volume McCormick appeals to “a spirituality of politics” existing at least for now only in speeches and prayers, and not to a regime that could actually come into being anytime soon.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124391041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Burning Coal: Thomas Aquinas on Loving and Eating Christ in the Eucharist","authors":"D. Spezzano","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900225","url":null,"abstract":"I truly believe and know for certain that this is true God and man, the Son of God the Father and of the Virgin mother, and so I believe in my soul and confess in words what is stated by the priest about this most holy sacrament. . . . I receive you, price of the redemption of my soul; I receive you, viaticum of my pilgrimage, for the love of whom I have studied, kept vigil, and labored. You I have preached and taught; I have never said anything against you.1","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132994821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glory of the Logos in the Flesh: Saint John Paul II's Theology of the Body by Michael Maria Waldstein (review)","authors":"John S. Grabowski","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mind and World in Aristotle's \"De Anima\" by Sean Kelsey (review)","authors":"F. Miller","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116936141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought by David M. Lantigua (review)","authors":"J. Canning","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900235","url":null,"abstract":"diversity” (132). The principle of “analogical similarity enables the mind to transcend duality and diversity, to perceive unity in bipolar tension”; through analogy “opposites are not rescinded nor tension abandoned” but enabled to display “mutual enrichment, allowing reciprocal comparisons and the exchange of attributes” (161). As O’Rourke astutely shows through careful analysis of a judiciously selected set of passages from Joyce’s fiction, the philosophical thought of Aristotle and Aquinas informs Joyce’s reflections on a wide array of topics, including “authentic selfhood and authorial identity” (4). The poet W. B. Yeats once remarked that “Joyce’s work incites to philosophy” (7). Yet that does not mean that we should go to Joyce expecting extended philosophical arguments or that what is of value in a literary work is its residue of philosophy. As O’Rourke wisely notes, “a writer who overtly uses his medium to convey a philosophical message will damage his art” (234). Too much emphasis on philosophy makes for either bad literature or bad readings of literature. Joyce came of age as an author in a period in which artistic and literary theory began to flourish, an era in which theory seemed at least as important as the text or work of art itself. Yet his accent on the mystery of concrete reality lends an anti-theoretical bent to his writings. As he puts it in Finnegan’s Wake: “let us leave theories there and return to here’s here” (109). That places Joyce comfortably within a broadly Aristotelian approach to human action, one that had already been revived by John Henry Newman, an important influence on Joyce, and that would soon become a feature of an Anglo-American movement in ethics informed equally by Aristotle and Wittgenstein.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117124599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augustine on Memory by Kevin G. Grove (review)","authors":"K. Chabi","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133871526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liturgical Preaching and the Summa theologiae","authors":"Innocent Smith","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900228","url":null,"abstract":"N THE SECOND HALF of the sixteenth century, in the wake of decrees of the Council of Trent calling for more frequent preaching by bishops and parish priests, a new type of exegetical tool was developed for pastors who sought to draw on the theological insights of St. Thomas Aquinas in their preaching. While the Tridentine call for a renewal of preaching and the production of exegetical tools for preachers were rooted in pastoral currents dating back to the thirteenth","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131039074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Christian Structure of Politics: On the \"De regno\" of Thomas Aquinas by William McCormick (review)","authors":"Douglas Kries","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900232","url":null,"abstract":"in a potential or actual state, and it is when both are actual that they become the same: “the act of understanding (noēsis) is one with the [actual] object of understanding (nooumenon)” (Metaphys. 12.9.1075a4-5 [my translations]). This presents a problem for Kelsey’s general claim that to be intelligible is to be an activity of intelligence. Second, Aristotle’s frequent remark that we should start from what is “poorly knowable” (phaulōs gnōston) but knowable to us and proceed to the knowledge of what is knowable “in itself by nature” implies that objects are intelligible in an objective sense alien to Kelsey’s interpretation (see Metaphys. 7.3.1029b3-11; this is quoted by Kelsey on page 156 but an important part is missing). To sum up, Kelsey stakes out an original interpretation and defends it forcefully. Even those who are not convinced will gain valuable insights, especially concerning Aristotle’s concept of measure and his emphasis on intelligence as active process rather a mere passive reception of forms. It is a must read for any scholar of Aristotle’s epistemology.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The True Christian Life: Thomistic Reflections on Divinization, Prudence, Religion, and Prayer by Ambroise Gardeil (review)","authors":"D. Keating","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.a900229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.a900229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"29 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126044050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}