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Cornelius Ernst's Theological Seeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Louis Roy OP*
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Boston College
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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), 3738Google Scholar; henceforth referred to as ME.

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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): 310, 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): 235254Google 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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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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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): 4766, 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): 24CrossRefGoogle Scholar.