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Cornelius Ernst's Theological Seeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Louis Roy OP
Louis Roy OP*
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New Blackfriars , Volume 85 , Issue 998 , July 2004 , pp. 459 - 470
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Copyright © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004

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2 Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 114, a. 3, ad 3.

3 Ernst, Cornelius, Multiple Echo: Explorations in Theology, ed. Kerr, Fergus and Radcliffe, Timothy (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1979), 37–38Google Scholar; henceforth referred to as ME.

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7 See Ombres, Robert and Edney, Mark, “Consideration”, New Blackfriars 82 (2001): 482–485CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. 482.

8 “Meaning and Metaphor in Theology”, New Blackfriars 61 (1980): 100–112CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 105; henceforth referred to as MMT. This all-important point is highlighted in Nicholas Lash's review of Multiple Echo in New Blackfriars 61 (1980): 89–93, at 91–93.

9 The Theology of Grace(Cork: Mercier Press, and Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974), 66–69; henceforth referred to as TG.

10 Cornelius Ernst's obituary, in Acts of the Provincial Chapter of the English Province, 1978, 40–42, at 41.

11 See also “Faith and Reality: Two Major Works of Biblical Theology”, The Life of the Spirit 16 (1961): 3–10, at 6Google Scholar.

12 In the latter part of his career, Thomas Aquinas ceased using proportionality and instead kept only the analogy of attribution (a simple proportio) in his approach to God; see Patfoort, Albert, “La place de l’analogie dans la pensée de S. Thomas d’Aquin’, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 76 (1992): 235–254Google Scholar. Older studies by George P. Klubertanz, Ralph McInerny, David Burrell and Bernard Montagnes support Patfoort's thesis.

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14 Introduction to Rahner, Karl, Theological Investigations(London: cDarton, Longman and Todd, 1961Google Scholar, and New York: Crossroad, 1982), vol. 1:xvii, note 1. In this introduction readers can find what Ernst thinks is significant in Heidegger's philosophy. At the end (xix) he also acknowledges his indebtedness to Rahner.

15 Ibid., xvi-xvii.

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18 In “A Preface to Theology”, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 2 (1971): 1–8Google Scholar, at 4, Ernst praises Wittgenstein's later philosophy as “a disclosure of mind in action, of “mind” as an indefinitely fluid activity of meaning”.

19 Introduction to Rahner, Theological Investigations, vol. 1:xiii-xiv.

20 “A Preface to Theology”, 6.

21 Summa Theologiae, I, q. 2, a. 3. As a matter of fact, Ernst cites this refrain in MMT, 101.

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23 On the connection between the death and resurrection of Jesus and the meaning of human destiny, see Ernst, , “A Theological Chronicle”, Blackfriars 41 (1960): 220–227, at 222CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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30 Introduction to “The Gospel of Grace”, xx.

31 Ibid., xx-xxi.

32 See Lonergan, Method in Theology, 82–83 and 304–305 on the systematic exigence, to be recast in light of the critical exigence. For more on this issue, see Roy, Louis, “Can We Thematize Mysticism?”Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 21 (2003): 47–66, esp. 48–49 and 61–66Google Scholar.

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38 “Tension” is a word that recurs in the sermon just quoted as well as in the brief memoir by Tugwell, Simon, entitled “Cornelius Ernst”, New Blackfriars 59 (1978): 2–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.