Cornelius Ernst
Cornelius Ernst (1924–1977) was an English Dominican theologian.
Ernst was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1924 to an ethnically Dutch Anglican father and Sinhalese Buddhist mother. For a period he was a member of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka. He shared the Anglicanism of his father, but later converted to Catholicism after reading John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua.[1]
While at Cambridge (1946–7) he attended lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein.[2] He produced the first English translation of Karl Rahner's Schriften zur Theologie which he penned the foreword to and named Theological Investigations.[3] This title choice was influenced by Wittgenstein's book Philosophical Investigations.[4]
He was ordained in 1954, following this he taught at Hawkesyard Priory in Staffordshire from 1957 until 1966 when he moved to Oxford Priory.[5]
He edited and wrote the introduction to a Latin-English bilingual translation of the section on grace in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, which he published in 1972.[4][6] Ernst work attempted a synthesis of the ideas of Wittgenstein and Aquinas.[7]
In 1974 he published a book, The Theology of Grace.[8]
In 1979 many of his essays were posthumously published as a book, Multiple Echo,[9] featuring a foreword by Donald M. MacKinnon.[10] Ernst work influenced theologians Nicholas Lash[11], Fergus Kerr[12], and Timothy Radcliffe.[13]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kerr, Fergus (December 1978). "CORNELIUS ERNST: SERMON PREACHED at the REQUIEM MASS at Blackfriars, OXFORD, on 26th January 1978". New Blackfriars. 59 (703): 549–54.
- ^ Aquinas as Authority. Peeters Publishers. 2002. p. 175.
- ^ Fritz, Peter Joseph (2014). Karl Rahner's Theological Aesthetics. Catholic University Press of America. p. 112.
- ^ a b Kerr, Fergus (April 2022). "Anscombe, Ernst And McCabe". Divus Thomas. 125 (1): 42–70.
- ^ Kopack, Austin C. (2024). "Nothing is hidden: nonsense and the revelation of limits". International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. 85 (1–2): 80–94.
- ^ Anderson, Justin M. (2020). Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Cambridge University Press. p. 312.
- ^ Keenan, Oliver James (July 2013). "'Sacrament of the Dynamic Transcendence of Christianity': Cornelius Ernst on the Church". New Blackfriars. 94 (1052): 396–414.
- ^ Hill, Edmund (October 1982). "Multiple Echo by Cornelius Ernst, O.P. (review)". The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review. 46 (4): 631–6.
- ^ Roy, Louis (July 2004). "Cornelius Ernst's Theological Seeds". New Blackfriars. 85 (998): 459–70.
- ^ Bowyer, Andrew (2019). Donald MacKinnon's Theology: To Perceive Tragedy Without the Loss of Hope. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 149.
- ^ Plested, Marcus; Levering, Matthew, eds. (2021). The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. Oxford University Press. p. 512.
- ^ Kerr, Fergus (1997). Theology After Wittgenstein. SPCK. p. VIII.
- ^ Radcliffe, Timothy (2019). Alive in God: A Christian Imagination. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 19.
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