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BOOK REVIEWS 381 A disciple and collaborator of Etienne Gilson, student of the spirituality of Gerson, dedicated follower of St. Therese of Lisieux, lifelong admirer of St. Thomas Aquinas-these various interests among others indicated in the prefatory "Life and Works of Msgr. Andre Combes" are reflected in the sweep of articles relating to every epoch in the life of the Church. The three volumes are divided into eleven sections beginning with Biblical Themes and ending with Thomism and Modern Science. We can merely list the major contributions which would offer direct interest to Thomists. " Comment Le Premier Moteur Meut L'Univers," by Paul Siwek, S. J. (I, 377ยทยท39~) ; " Berenger de Tours dans les ecrits de Saint Thomas d'Aquin," by Godfroid Geenen, 0. P. (II, 43-61); "Un aspect de la notion de verite selon Saint Albert le Grand auteur du ' De Bono,'" by Abbe Francis Ruello (II, 149-160); "Elementi per una dottrina tomistica della partecipazione," by Cornelio Fabro, C. P. S. (II, 163-190); "Animadversiones thomisticae in argumentum ideologicum pro existentia Dei," by Humbertus Degl'Innocenti, 0. P. (II, 191-~16); "S. Tommaso, 'De spiritualibus Creaturis,' art. 10, ad 8," by Msgr. Giorgio Giannim (II, ~17-130); " Significate e valore della IV Via nella Somma Teologica di San Tommaso," by Toshiyuki Miyakawa (II, ~31-~53); "La finalita dei miracoli secondo S. Tommaso d'Aquino (Contra Gentes, III, 99) ," by Prof. Vladimiro Boublik (II, ~55-~64); "II pensiero politico di Tommaso d'Aquino," by Prof. Umberto A. Padovani (II, ~65-~7~); " Due grandi ascesi della carita: S. Tommaso e S. Francesco di Sales," by Prof. Luigi Bogliolo, S.D. B. (II, 479-497); "Marginalia alia storia del Neotomismo," by Clemente Vansteenkiste, 0. P. (III, 7-~0); "Sur un argument de Saint Thomas," by Joseph de Finance, S. J. (III, 4~5-438). This work not only honors an illustrious master of the Lateran University but also offers helpful material to serious students of the sacred sciences. Dominican HoUIIe of Studies Washington, D. C. NICHOLAS HALLIGAN, 0. P. The Bond of Marriage. Ed. by WILLIAM W. BASSETT. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Pp. ~14. $6.95. To appreciate The Bond of Marriage, one must first look at this topic in retrospect. To go back to the Fourth Session of Vatican Council II, September ~9, 1965, where we find this topic described as a "bombshell" when it was brought up by the Eastern-rite prelate, Archbishop Elie Zoghbi, who urged that the Church should cast a merciful eye on the plight of husbands and wives who have been abandoned and left to live lives of perpetual continence. " Could not the Church dispense the innocent party 382 BOOK REVIEWS from the bonds of matrimony according to the practice of some Eastern churches? " he declared, emphasizing the fact " that heroic virtue cannot be imposed upon all." The Archbishop's talk stunned most of the prelates present. The Council Daybook describes the scene by saying that the "council Fathers listened in earnest attention, but remained stolidly in their seats, and the coffee bars, which usually do a bustling business, were virtually deserted." After Vatican Council II, in 1967, another "bombshell" hit (the American Catholic Church in the form of Divorce and Remarriage (Towards a new Catholic Teaching), by Very Rev. Msgr. Victor J. Pospishil, who maintains, and attempts to substantiate logically, "that the Church possesses the authority to permit the remarriage of all divorced persons. While accepting as self-evident that the institution of marriage was ordained by God to be a permanent, enduring association between man and woman, and ideally should last till death of one spouse dissolves it, it is necessary to distinguish two related concepts: permanency and indissolubility ." Monsignor Pospishil maintains that the doctrine of the absolute indissolubility of a consummated sacramental marriage is a part of the ordinary magisterium of the Catholic Church, but, nowhere is there an infallible definition of it, even thought it is a doctrine proxima fidei or at least certa. He goes on to say that " for all practical purposes, a Catholic is obliged in his conscience to give his assent to this teaching, but this does not preclude the...

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