First, after his discharge from the German Army in November of 1918, Eschmann in the spring of 1919 joined the Friars Preachers, the "Do- minican Order/' with its modified version of the "Rule of Saint Augu- stine." The horrors of the slaughter that was the First World War, seen through the lens provided by the Bishop of Hippo, most certainly steeled the young Eschmann for the sacrifices, directly [...] Second, the incomparable masterpiece by the Bishop of Hippo, read meditatively and as a refuge from the unending pressure of survival at the front, certainly gave Eschmann experiential knowledge of the joy and peace to be found in prayer and in the love of the Holy One. [...] To take one from among the many controversial positions which characterize the way he approached the Summa theologiae, the great Summary of Theolo- gy by Saint Thomas Aquinas, which is the flagship text of the "Thomasic" doctrine, Eschmann insisted on a detailed analysis of the "Prologues" with which the author introduced each "Part" of the work. [...] It started in the seventeenth century and is a product of the peculiar situa- tion of that century: the struggle of the Church in the midst of powers and tendencies that endeavor to reach autonomy2 and to set themselves up against the unity of the Church. [...] Here the tendency of the theologians was to describe the "treasury of laws" as distinguished from the "treasury of the articles of faith." Articles of faith on the one hand, and laws on the other hand, emerge slowly as two cen- ters of ecclesiastical studies, the one as nucleus of "dogmatics," the other that of "morals." In the eighteenth century we witness a complete dismem- berment of theology i
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- A. The Project 8
- B. History and Myth 10
- C. Rome 11
- D. Germany 14
- E. Eschmann in Canada 16
- F. Academic Views 21
- G. Eschmann and Thomism 24
- H. Professor Jordan's Contribution 26
- I. Additional Editorial Principles 28
- PART ONE: ESCHMANNUS BELLATOR 32
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., the Summary of Theology I-II: Prologue and Question 1, Articles 1-8 34
- A. Preliminaries 34
- B. Reflections on the Proposed Project 37
- C. The Prologue 39
- D. The School as Context 41
- E. Difficulty of Definition 52
- F. The Summa theologiae in the History of Theology 55
- G. Thirteenth-Century Developments 61
- H. Remarks on the Structure of the First Five Questions of Summa theologiae I-II, and Especially of the First Question 67
- I. The Structure of the First Question: On the ultimate end of the human being, divided into eight Articles 68
- J. The Sources of the First Question 74
- K. Dubium 77
- L. The Exposition of Article 1 78
- M. The Exposition of Article 2 105
- N. The Exposition of Article 3 116
- O. The Exposition of Article 4 129
- P. The Exposition of Article 5 143
- Q. The Exposition of Article 6 158
- R. The Exposition of Article 7 172
- S. The Exposition of Article 8 179
- T. Conclusion 183
- PART TWO: ESCHMANNUS AEDIFICATOR 188
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., the Summary of Theology I-II: The Ethics of the Image of God 190
- A. Prudential Ethics 190
- B. The Philosophy of Prudence 205
- C. The Moral and Intellectual Context of Prudence 209
- D. The Driver's-Seat Virtue: Prudence and Truth 228
- E. Law and the Liberty of the Christian 242
- Bibliography 264
- A. Saint Thomas Aquinas 264
- B. Other Sources 265
- Index 268
- A. Index of Names 268
- A 268
- B 268
- C 268
- D 268
- E 268
- F 268
- G 268
- H 268
- I 269
- J 269
- K 269
- L 269
- M 269
- N 269
- O 269
- P 269
- R 269
- S 269
- T 269
- V 269
- W 269
- B. Index of Subjects 270
- A 270
- B 270
- C 270
- D 270
- E 270
- F 270
- G 270
- H 270
- I 271
- J 271
- K 271
- L 271
- M 271
- N 271
- O 271
- P 271
- Q 272
- R 272
- S 272
- T 272
- U 272
- V 272
- W 273
