scholarly journals ”Due honor to their relics”: Thomas Aquinas as Teacher and Object of Veneration

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Anton ten Klooster
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Great Caution

Abstract After his death an intense struggle ensued for ownership of the relics of Thomas Aquinas. There were both pious and political motives for the desire to possess the bones of the saint. This article introduces the topic by describing the places where Aquinas’ relics can now be found. We then outline Aquinas’ own views on the veneration of relics, which is characterized by an appreciation of the practice but with great caution to avoid superstition. An historical overview of the fate of Aquinas’ relics sheds light on their significance, particularly in light of the canonization process. The final reflection considers the fate of Aquinas’ relics in light of his own theology.

The End of the Catholic Nineteenth Century in 1968

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Massa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Law Making

This chapter narrates the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s famous letter on birth control in 1968, and the unfavorable response it received by Catholic theologians. It offers a historical overview of how St. Thomas Aquinas utilized Aristotle’s idea of natural law, making that concept basic in Catholic sexual teaching. The author describes the nineteenth-century followers of Aquinas as “neo-scholastics” who prided themselves on a systematic interpretation of Catholic doctrine in light of an unchanging law embedded in an almost objectivist understanding of “nature” by God, discoverable by human reason, the moral implications of which were equally unchanging. The author argues that it was this rigid nineteenth-century neo-scholastic natural law tradition that helped to set up the collapse within the American Catholic community in the decades after the 1960s.

Great Caution Urged in Lasering Infantile Hemangiomas

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
BRUCE JANCIN
Keyword(s):  
Great Caution

Historical Overview of OE Human Factors and Intervention Strategies

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schroeder ◽  
Larry Bailey ◽  
Julia Pounds ◽  
Carol Manning
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Historical Overview

Karl Marx’s Legacy: The Historical Overview

2007 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
R. Nureev
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Marxism

The article is devoted to the history of reception and interpretation of the ideas of Marx and Engels. The author considers the reasons for divergence between Marxist and neoclassical economic theories. He also analyzes the ways of vulgarization of Marx’s theory and the making of Marxist voluntarism. It is shown that the works of Marx and Engels had a certain potential for their over-simplified interpretations. The article also considers academic ("Western") Marxism and evaluates the prospects of Marxist theory in the future.

‘Counsel, Comfort, and Conscience’ in More’s Letters to Fellow Prisoner Nicholas Wilson

Moreana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (Number 176) (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
John F. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Summa Theologiae ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Tower Of London

This is a study of the two letters of Thomas More to Nicholas Wilson writ-ten while the two men were imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation illuminates the role of comfort and counsel in the two letters. An article of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae is used to probe More’s understanding of conscience in the letters.

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