Servais-Théodore Pinckaers
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers OP (born October 30, 1925 in Liège , Belgium , † April 7, 2008 in Friborg , Switzerland ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic moral theologian . He was considered one of the world's leading experts on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas .
Life
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers entered 1946 with the end of World War Congregation of the Dominicans at. He studied theology and philosophy in the Dominican monastery La Sarte in Huy and was ordained a priest in 1951 . In 1952 he received his doctorate at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ("Angelicum") in Rome , then he did his master's in theology.
From 1952 to 1965 he taught moral theology in Belgium, from 1965 to 1973 he was prior in the monastery of Liège. In 1973, he received a call as professor of fundamental moral theology at the Swiss University of Freiburg , he was also from 1989 to 1991 Dean of the Faculty of Theology.
Pinckaers was a participant in Vatican II. He was hired in June 1989 by Pope John Paul II as an advisor to the Congregation for Catholic Education . He was also a member of the International Theological Commission since 1992.
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers was next to his professorship from 1983 to 1990 and after his retirement in 1996 prior of the Dominican monastery Albertinum in Freiburg.
Act
The main research area of Pinckaers was Thomas Aquinas . He implemented the ideas and teachings of Thomas Aquinas in particular in the Dominican orders in England and Belgium. His work and his moral theological ideas shaped the catechism of the Catholic Church. Instead of extensive theological playfulness, he endeavored to use the entire breadth of human experience for the renewal of Thomism. As a member of the Vatican Commission responsible for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, he wrote on the moral theological part. He was also a member of a preparatory commission for the encyclical Veritatis Splendor (Shine of Truth) by Pope John Paul II.
In 1990, on his 65th birthday, he was honored by the University of Freiburg with a commemorative publication entitled “Aux sources du renouveau de la morale chrétienne” (At the sources of the renewal of Christian morality). In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate in "Theology of Marriage and the Family" from the Pontifical Lateran University ; The ceremony was attended by the Grand Chancellor of Lateran University, Cardinal Camillo Ruini , and the Secretary of State of the Holy See , Cardinal Angelo Sodano .
Fonts
- The Sources of Christian Ethics , The Catholic University of America Press 1995, ISBN 0813208343 (English)
- The Sources of Christian Ethics: Translated from the Third Edition , Téqui 1977, ISBN 0813208181 (English)
- The Pursuit of Happiness - God's Way: Living the Beattitudes , Alba House 1998, ISBN 0818907975 (English)
- The spiritual life of the Christian, theology and spirituality according to Paul and Thomas Aquinas , Bonifatius Druckerei 1999, ISBN 3897100312 (German)
- El Evangelio y La Moral , Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias 2000, ISBN 84-87155-12-X (Spanish)
- Las Fuentes de La Moral Cristiana , Universidad de Navarra 2000, ISBN 8431317469 (Spanish)
- La spiritualité du martyre. Jusqu'au bout de l'amour. , Saint-Paul 2000, ISBN 2-85049-837-8 (French)
- Christ and happiness. Outline of Christian Ethics , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004, ISBN 3525301421 (German)
- Pinckaers (Author), John Berkman (Editor), Craig Steven Titus (Editor): The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology , The Catholic University of America Press 2005, ISBN 0813214084 (English)
- Les sources de la morale chrétienne , Cerf 2007, ISBN 2204083690 (French)
- Morality: The Catholic View , St. Augustine Press 2008, ISBN 1587315165 (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Servais-Théodore Pinckaers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vatican Radio : “Moral theologian Pinckaers died” , April 8, 2008
- University of Friborg: In memoriam: Père Théodore-Servais Pinckaers OP ( memento of June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), April 8, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ "Hommage au Père Servais-Théodore Pinckaers" ( Memento of July 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Romanus Cessario, 2007
- ^ Un spécialiste de théologie morale ne à Liège le 30 octobre 1925
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinckaers, Servais-Théodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pinckaers, Servais-Théodore OP |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic moral theologian, Dominican |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2008 |
| Place of death | Friborg , Switzerland |