Medieval Reactions to the Encounter Between Faith and Reason (Aquinas Lecture)

127 Pages·1995·1.37 MB·English

by  John F. Wippel

Mediæval Reactions
to the
Encounter
between
Faith and Reason

The Aquinas Lecture, 1995
Mediæval Reactions
to the
Encounter
between
Faith and Reason
Under the auspices of the
Wisconsin-Alpha of Phi Sigma Tau
by
John F. Wippel
Marquette University Press
Milwaukee
1995
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-74397
ISBN 0-87462-162-3
Copyright © 1994
Marquette University Press
Published in the United States of America
Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the
National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette
University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a
lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The 1995 Aquinas Lecture, Mediæval Reactions
to the Encounter between Faith and Reason, was de-
livered in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Auditorium
on Sunday, February 26, 1995, by Monsignor John
F. Wippel, Ordinary Professor of Philosophy in the
School of Philosophy and Academic Vice-President
of The Catholic University of America.
Born in Pomeroy, Ohio, John Wippel began his
seminary training at St. John Vianney Seminary in
Steubenville, Ohio and completed his undergraduate
work at The Catholic University of America where he
also earned an M.A. in Philosophy and a Licentiate in
Sacred Theology. After ordination in 1960 he taught
for one year at The Catholic University of America
and then pursued doctoral studies at the University of
Louvain which awarded him the Ph.D. in 1965. He
also holds the post-doctoral degree of Maître-Agrégé de
l’Ecole Saint Thomas d’Aquin from Louvain-la-Neuve
which he received in 1981. He resumed teaching at
The Catholic University of America in 1963 and
became Ordinary Professor in 1972. Since June of
1989 he has been Academic Vice-President of the
University.
Monsignor Wippel received the Cardinal Mer-
cier prize from the University of Louvain in 1981
for his book, The Metaphysical Thought of Godfrey
of Fontaines. He is also the author of Metaphysical
Themes in Thomas Aquinas (1984). He is coeditor and
coauthor of Medieval Philosophy: From St. Augustine
to Nicholas of Cusa (1969); he is editor of Studies in
Medieval Philosophy (1987) and author of the chapter
in that volume on “Thomas Aquinas and Participa-
tion.” He is coauthor of Les questions disputées et les
questions quodlibétiques dans les facultés de théologie, de
droit et de médecine (1985), having contributed Part
II of that volume, “Quodlibetal Questions, Chiefly
in Theology Faculties.” He has translated Boethius of
Dacia: On the Supreme Good, On the Eternity of the
World, On Dreams (1987).
Besides his books, Msgr. Wippel is the author
of over fifty articles in journals and in encyclopedias
and chapters in books on mediæval philosophy.
Some of his most recent articles bear the following
titles: “Godfrey of Fontaines: Divine Power and the
Principle of Noncontradiction,” “Individuation in
James of Viterbo,” “Thomas Aquinas on What Phi-
losophers Can Know about God,” “Thomas of Sutton
on Divine Knowledge of Future Contingents,” “The
Latin Avicenna as a Source for Thomas Aquinas’s
Metaphysics,” and “Truth in Thomas Aquinas.”
To Msgr. John F. Wippel’s distinguished list
of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add:
Mediæval Reactions to the Encounter between Faith and
Mediæval Reactions
to the
Encounter
between
Faith and Reason
by
John F. Wippel