Aeterni Patris: 1879–1979. A Bibliography of American Responses

AETERNI PATRIS: 1879-1979 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN RESPONSES PROFESSOR MARCIA COLISH has observed that " Of all the chapters in the history of post-medieval Thomism the one initiated by the Leonine revival has been the least thoroughly investigated." 1 The purpose of this bibliography is to provide students of the history of Thomism with a guide to the response of the U. S. press and selected American philosophers to Aeterni Patris. NEWSPAPERS. Announcements of the encyclical-occasionally with comments- can be found in the following: The Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati (September 4, 1879), The Catholic Vindicator of Milwaukee (September, 13, 1879), The Catholic Mirror of Baltimore (September 6, 1879), The Boston Pilot (September 6, 1879), and The Notre Dame Scholastic (August 23, 1879). JoURNALs. Favorable responses included: James Corcoran, "The Recent Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Necessity of Reinstating the Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas in Catholic Schools," American Catholic Quarterly Review 4 (1879), 719-732; " Leo XIII On Scholastic Philosophy," Catholic World 30 (1879), 289-298; T. J. Jenkins, "The Angel of the Schools on the Virgin Mother," Ave Maria 16 (1880), 601-605, 621-625; "The Intellectual Outlook of the Age," Catholic World 31 (1880), 145-158. Two critical responses by non-Catholics were: Archibald Alexander, " Thomas Aquinas and the Encyclical Letter," Princeton Review 5 (1880), 245-261; Austin Bierbower, "The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas," The New Englander 42 (1883), 86-102. Two Catholic responses to these criticisms were: " The Princeton Review and Leo XIII," Catholic World 31 (1880), 380-395, 521-535; "St. Thomas in the New Englander for January, 1883," Catholic World 37 (1883)' 68-82. 1 " St. Thomas in Historical Perspective: The Modern Period," Church History 44 (1975)' 445. 480 Al!i'.rERNl PATlUS 481 CoMMENTS BY SoME AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS. Thomas Davidson, prefatory remarks to a letter printed as " the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas," The Joiirnal of Speculative Philosophy 13 (1879), 87-88; review of lnstitutiones Philosophiae Naturalis by Tilmannus Pesch, Mind: a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 7 (1882), 428-427; The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (London, 1882), esp. p. 96. John Dewey, "The Scholastic and the Speculator," [1891] in John Dewey: The Early Works, eds. Jo Ann Boydston et al., 5 vols. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1!}6972 ), 3: 149. William James, "Philosophy and Its Critics," in Some Problems in Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy (New York, 1911), p. 12. C. S. Peirce," The Principles of Philosophy," in The Collected Works of Charles Sanders Peirce, eds. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 193134 ), 1: 10-14, 356. Josiah Royce, introduction to Edward van Becelaere, La Philosophie en Arnerique... (New York, 1904), xvi. SECONDARY AccouNTS. Charles Hart, ,. Neo-Scholastic Philosophy in American Catholic Culture," in Aspects of New Scholastic Philosophy, ed. Charles Hart (New York, 1932), pp. 10-31; Jesse A. Mann, "Neo-Scholastic Philosophy in the United States of America in the Nineteenth Century," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 33 (1959), 127-136: Joseph Louis Perrier, The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1909), pp. 232-244; James A. Weisheipl, "Contemporary Scholasticism," The New Catholic Encyclopedia 15 vols. (New York, 1967-74), 12: 1170. Marcia L. Colish, "St. Thomas in Historical Perspective: The Modern Period," Church History 44 (1975), 4,33_449 considers Aeterni Patris pp. 434-436, 445-449. Aquinas Institute of Theology Dubuque, Iowa JoN ALEXA.~DER, 0. P. ...