Papers by Jean-Marc Laporte
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 1973
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 2003
B orn THOMAS AQUINAS and Bonaventure, having completed their doctoral cursus in the 1250s, could ... more B orn THOMAS AQUINAS and Bonaventure, having completed their doctoral cursus in the 1250s, could leave the Sentences of Peter Lombard behind and apply their own theological acumen to the organization of sacra doctrina. Since Bonaventure was elected Minister General of his order in the same year he was recognized as a master by the University of Paris, his academic career was curtailed. He did manage in that same year, in response to the request of many students, to compose his Breviloquium, universally recognized as an attractive, accessible, and profound work of doctrinal synthesis. 1 Aquinas had the opportunity to teach for many years before he began around 1265-66 to write his Summa Theologiae, his crowning achievement. Though unfinished, this work, far more extensive than the Breviloquium, made available to students of his era and to us the fruit of his mature thought in a carefully devised pedagogical order. 2 In this essay we are principally concerned with the Summa and its ordering of topics, but to help us highlight its distinctive features we will contrast it with the Breviloquium. As our title
Method, 1990
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The Modern Schoolman, 1963
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1963
The similarity in intellectual temperament of Husserl and Descartes makes the task of comparing t... more The similarity in intellectual temperament of Husserl and Descartes makes the task of comparing them lighter in some respects, more burdensome in others. Since they had the same mathematical and logical bent and the same overpowering desire for absolute certitude, the basis of ...
Theological Studies, 1973
Toronto Journal of Theology, 2002
Aquinas is extremely careful in a series of prologues interspersed throughout his Summa Theologia... more Aquinas is extremely careful in a series of prologues interspersed throughout his Summa Theologiae to announce step by step what he is going to do. He offers broad overviews as well as detailed introductions, or prologues, showing the precise function of each of the over 510 questions (divided into some 3500 articles) it comprises. Thus it is easy to construct a chart outlining this massive work with main headings (Parts), subheadings, all the way to individual questions and even articles. However, one question, Question 26 of the First Part (Ia 26), apparently escaped his planning and is not included in any of his introductions. Its topic is the divine beatitude. It is divided into four articles, and is inserted at the end of his treatise on the divine essence, just before he begins the treatise on the distinctions of Persons (as announced in Ia 2 1 prol.). In his consideration of the One God, Aquinas begins with the divine substance and then passes to God's operation, and the ...
This article arises out of a recent work-shop. The enneagram is a system of personal self-discove... more This article arises out of a recent work-shop. The enneagram is a system of personal self-discovery which came out of an esoteric tradition. It has been found useful by many counsellors and spiritual directors, but it needs to be transposed out of its original context into one based on Christian spiritual teaching. We do so with the help of Paul's anthropology and theology of grace, and Ignatius' own keen insights into spiritual dynamics. Thus our presentation's Pauline and Ignatian flavour.
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