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Justice, Peace and Dominicans 1216–1999: X ‐ Looking backwards, forwards and around

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

John Orme Mills OP
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Over the past two years eight people—all of them in one way or another concerned with social justice or peace issues—have written in New Blackfriars about how one very old and in many ways unique Catholic religious order has responded to justice and peace issues in the course of 784 years: the 784 years from its foundation to the end of the Second Millennium. The authors have not set out to write a comprehensive history, but to focus in each article on one individual or group of individuals, placing them in the context of the world they belonged to. Let us start this epilogue by asking ourselves whether we can see in the achievements of these Dominicans any kind of consistent pattern, any recognisable stance—in other words, a distinctively “Dominican” way of reacting to what is going on in society.

This, though, is a question much easier to ask than to answer. Some of you think our choice of subjects has been too esoteric to make an assessment of this kind possible. Of the personalities we have written about, neither Eckhart, Antoninus, Vitoria, Las Casas, nor even McNabb could be called “typical” 14th, 15th, 16th or 20th century Dominicans by any stretch of the imagination. Eckhart’s contemporary, William Humbert, the Inquisitor who in 1310 sent the Beguine mystic Marguerite Porete to the stake, was much more a “typical” 14th-century Dominican than Eckhart, who shared some of his most original thoughts with a throng of Beguine women. One or two of you have also criticised us for not devoting an article to St Thomas Aquinas, surely the Dominican who most profoundly shaped the Dominican way of seeing the world.

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Research Article
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New Blackfriars , Volume 80 , Issue 946 , December 1999 , pp. 536 - 541
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 Mills, John Orme: II ‐ The Medieval Rhineland: Eckhart and Popular Theological Preaching. New Blackfriars Vol 79 No. 929 July/August 1998, pp. 307–308CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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7 op. cit. pp. 12–15.

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9 Guy Bedouelle: “De ľ influence réelle de ľ Union de Fribourg sur ľ encyclique Rerum Novarum”, in “Rerum Novarum”: Écriture, Content et Réception ? une Encyclique (Actes de colloque international organisé par ľÉcole Franclhise de Rome et le Greco no 2 du CNRS. Rome 18–20 avril 1991), École Franclaise de Rome 1997.

10 I.D.I. September 1995, p. 161.

11 cf I.D.I. February 1996, p.26.

12 cf I.D.I. September 1997, p.167.

13 I.D.I. January 1998, pp. 12–13.

14 cf. IDI. September 1997, pp. 168–9.

15 Office of Franciscans International and Dominicans, Geneva, cf. I.D.I. pp.189–190.

16 General Chapter of 1998, Bologna: Acts nn. 127–134 ('The life of the community as a common project”).

17 VII ‐ France in 1953–4: Do the baptized have rights? The Worker‐Priest Crisis. NB Vol 80 No. 943 September 1999, pp. 384–396.

18 VIII ‐ Slant, Marxism and the English Dominicans. NB Vol 80 No. 944 October 1999, pp.436–443.

19 IX ‐ STOP WAR PLEASE: Dominicans and the Christian Peace Movement in England. NB Vol 80 No. 945 November 1999, pp.484–490.

20 I.D.I. September 1999, p.161.

21 24 October 1999, p.26.

22 Report of the Journées Romaines Dominicaines 1995. I.D.I. November 1995, p. 223.

23 cf I.D.I. April 1997, p. 85.

24 I.D.I. September 1999, p. 162.