'COMING OUT' FOR TOMMASO:
Novak, Michael
`COMING our FOR TOMMASO MICHAEL NOVAK Tommaso d'Aquino died seven (even concepts) from the thought of ...
...The re- overseas and U.S...
...My classroom notemost powerful ethicist in the English- cided that the best way to remain books are full of marginal notations speaking world, is unabashedly in- "relevant" throughout a long and on how to translate Tommaso's landebted to the tradition in which varied lifetime would be to steep my- guage into contemporary idiom...
...Perhaps the challenge facing Ralph Morton-famous for his coof relations which constitute authentic the movement (and the hope which authorship of God's Frozen People and community...
...For the charisa seemingly "theoretical" context will matic movement seems to represent a GOD'S MOVING SPIRIT the most pressing of practical prob- recovery of the affective and experilems find illumination: the purpose of ential spirituality associated with names Ralph Morton freedom, the meaning of love, the like Augustine, Bernard, and Ruysrealization of personhood, the quality broeck...
...no other do I hold in such their stubborn progress, their mo- cause his thought seemed-far more honor or affection...
...One or two years...
...And enced by Tommaso today than at any temper are made uneasy by the reyet his fundamental concerns con- time in several generations...
...reflection offers for the clarification must be willing to enter into a new Olaf's College, Minnesota, has edited and heightening of experience...
...today, many I decided not to use Thomistic ship...
...Expenses paidmedical, travel, vacation, living...
...purity (or predilections) of the will are to be differentiated and united in The natural world is an organic are-in many contemporary locations personal experience...
...We understanding of "being" - that common sense (for him, these are deal once again with fundamental healthy tendency in organisms to be also graced...
...Though the would go home depressed if I went to passages chosen are brief, they give, Mass and heard the type of homily you EUGENE Ce for the most part, a representative sur- recommend...
...this is often problems of the human species in a followed by a selection from a critic twenty minute homily...
...The ulti- discovery of God being granted to mate promise the book presages, then, many...
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...and one can note with interest is the renewal of Trinitarian theology The Church now the affinity to the language of the and the Church to come .. . in the Catholic tradition...
...His ethic is an whole, not infinitely manipulatable...
...Volunteer seven hundred years...
...have reemerged under new sponsor- and praised "doing...
...the clear distinctions, form arguments ligence itself...
...Not on New...
...The in- I believe matters of social concern KENNEDY clusion of several critical selections must be sensitively interwoven with lends an open and inquiring tone to other human issues facing man today...
...refer to and meditate upon...
...questions of the limits of "spaceship "in tune" with themselves, to be No thinker has forged a more trueearth," with the universal limits of "true" to others, to be "at one" with to-life unity between subjectivity and human nature...
...but knowledge is also par- instincts of the heart, and in the ethic of being and of doing...
...But on the seven has transposed a great many insights perience...
...Whichever way events (Continued on page 21) 8 March 1974: 8 initiates such an approach...
...Jorstad selects brief ex- ton, D.C...
...The renewal of time by the obCommonweal: 21...
...distinctive...
...Knowledge is power," wrote Francis body's senses, in the passions, in the Similarly, his ethic is at once an Bacon...
...Morton examines today's open society and its movement both within and without the evidence of a similar concern...
...Year's This guide to better self-understandWhat strikes the interested reader Day, however, in the manner suggested ing Is "a book to re-read, consult, by your editorial...
...we have alienation, which has by contrast yet recognizing the fleshiness of the also come to the end of the unthink- made usable once again Tommaso's flesh and the humble demands of able, inconsequential "progress...
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...the two ticipation, reverence and restraint...
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...carrying Latin distinctions into modtion...
...your skills & experience in developing nations its emergence has aroused...
...need not to allow the sharp distinction and the presentation of evidence...
...reasons" is now more plausible than istic...
...while demands...
...In his The Holy Father Haughey's book demonstrates ness to find new ways is the first priorSpirit in Today's Church Erling Jorstad, some of the possibilities which such ity of the Church . . . the Church Professor of American Studies at St...
...I To no other thinker, ancient or the Nichomachean Ethics...
...cerpts from writers associated with do not come to Mass, especially on Pentecostalism who present and explain New Year's Day, to be told all the Now in Paperback the theme in question...
...For Aquinas into contemporary ethical exodus and return-the fundamental seven hundred years, somber voices discourse...
...subject to critical argument and We can intervene in the natural ever...
...and insisted that they be made part ing ways of thinking that marked the The insights of Tommaso into the of the internal conversation of every beginnings of the modern age...
...For two generations, objectivity, between story and reason, In ethics, four Aquinan themes American discourse disdained "being" between revelation and sense...
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...than that of Hume, or Kant, or to be "a Thomist," or to hold any Second, the perception that actions Sartre, or Spinoza-to be so non- position whatever except those that I are not atomic, but flow from dis- ideological, so ample, so centered, so had made part of myself, in my own positions, from "virtues," from "es- intent upon holding together the language, because they answered to tablished patterns...
...The Pain of the whole discussion, well suited to a There is a place and a time to preach Being Human vital and still developing movement...
...First, the importance of inten- speak comfortably again of "being" words in my writing, not to be a tionality-that fundamental, under- -and of contemplation, meditation, Thomist in the way Maritain was, lying drive in human inquiry and ac- at-one-ment...
...the social gospel...
...it -becoming commonplace...
...The trend of ecological thinking between the emotive and the cogni- Tommaso recognized and legitimated today is closer to the thought world tive reinforced by Hume in Anglo- both tendencies of the human spirit, of Tommaso than to those all-master- Saxon, and Kant in German thought...
...One cannot but rejoice in the year...
...vey of opinion on the matter...
...I have not wanted mentum...
...surgent language of being, mystery, tinue their quiet influence, as though Third, the need to understand mysticism...
...Tradi- chose him not simply because he was contemporary, do I feel so much in tions, too, have their intentionality, accessible at Stonehill College, but be- debt...
...His ap- ethic of charity but also of practical has its limits, its confines, its ca- proach to phronesis as "the giving of wisdom-intelligent but not rationalpacities, its "natural order...
...order far more than Aquinas in the Fourth, the modern experience of wholly dependent upon grace and thirteenth century dreamed...
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...He concludes that the readiCatholic Church...
...freedom of openness and experiment...
...James Gustafson centrifugal tendencies of human ex- my own experience...
...yet not entirely reducible to words...
...Only in such mystical tradition...
...MOREHOUSE-BARLOW opening chapters on the history of hundredth anniversary of my favorite Pentecostalism in America, on the new 14 East 41st Street mentor's death it may, perhaps, be per- New York 10017 Pentecostalism emergent in the 1960s missible to "come out": one of the and characterized by its flourishing within the mainline denominations, seven times seven dwarfs upon the and on some of the controversy which giant's shoulders in the succession of PEACE CORPS & VISTA NEED YOU...
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...theology of the Trinity issues today sustained theological reflection...
...COMING our FOR TOMMASO MICHAEL NOVAK Tommaso d'Aquino died seven (even concepts) from the thought of moved, he offered a firm base for hundred years ago, in 1274...
...and many who take the springing naturally, regularly, from human intelligence in an incarna- mystical ways are contemptuous of the fecund sources of human intel- tional, embodied, passional way...
...have announced the death of the America seem to be far more influ- Thus today many of empirical intellectual movement he began...
...Stuart Hampshire, perhaps the Long ago, in college years, I de- ern contexts...
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...My God, I of the particular position...
...embodiment of intelligence in the person...
...Tommaso worked-the tradition of self in the thought of Tommaso...
...its appearance within and not at the God's Lively People-believes that the A potent force pressing for renewed margin of the traditional churches conflict between tradition and experiment in the Church is inevitable-and reflection upon the Holy Spirit and the elicits) is to submit the experience to essential...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 1
