Servais-Théodore Pinckaers

Servais -Théodore Pinckaers OP ( born October 30, 1925 in Liege, Belgium, † April 7, 2008 in Fribourg, Switzerland ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic moral theologian. He was considered one of the world's leading expert on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Life

Servais -Théodore Pinckaers occurred at the end of the Second World War in 1946 the Congregation of the Dominicans. He studied theology and philosophy in the Dominican convent of La Sarte in Huy and received priestly ordination in 1951. In 1952 he received his doctorate at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ( " Angelicum " ) in Rome, then he was still his master's degree in theology.

From 1952 to 1965 he taught moral theology in Belgium, from 1965 to 1973 he was prior of the monastery of Liege. In 1973 he was appointed as professor of fundamental moral theology at the Swiss University of Fribourg, he also was 1989-1991 Dean of the Faculty of Theology.

Pinckaers was a participant at Vatican II. , He was obliged by Pope John Paul II as a consultant to the Congregation for Catholic Education in June 1989. He was 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 convent Albertinum in Freiburg.

Work

Main area of ​​research Pinckaers was Thomas Aquinas. He put the ideas and teachings of Thomas Aquinas in particular to the Dominican Order in England and Belgium. His work and his moral theological ideas shaped the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Instead comprehensive theological playfulness he tried to use the full breadth of human experience for the renewal of Thomism. As a member of the Vatican's Commission, which was responsible for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, he wrote on moral theology part. He was also a member of the Preparatory Commission for the encyclical Veritatis Splendor ( splendor of truth ) by Pope John Paul II

In 1990 he was honored on his 65th birthday at the University of Freiburg with a Festschrift entitled " Aux sources de la morale du renouveau chrétienne " ( At the sources of renewal of Christian morality). In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate in " theology of marriage and the family," the Pontifical Lateran University; at the ceremony were the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, Camillo Cardinal Ruini, and the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, present.

Writings

• 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, TeQui 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, St. Boniface printing 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 you martyre. Jusqu'au bout de l' amour. , Saint -Paul 2000, ISBN 2-85049-837-8 (in French)
• Christ and the happiness. Floor plan of Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press 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)