Thomas Aquinas

For the first time in the Romanian cultural horizon, this project has as a major objective the translation, the comment and the reevaluation of Summa theologiae by Thomas Aquinas, from a philosophical and a theological point of view. As an important fundament of European medieval culture and as a thesaurus of the humanistic legacy, this work has influenced the problems of theology and of modern philosophy. Such a kind of work needs various skills by bringing together the specialist in classical philology with the one in medieval history, the philosopher with the theologian.

The teamwork within the center of ancient and medieval philosophy (recognized by CNCSIS in 2006), the research seminars, documentation periods at the thomistical international centers, the collaborations with members of the leonine commission for the translation of the thomist work, the comment of the text, the confrontation of the standard edition with the novel manuscript of the 13th century, conserved in Romania, the editing of three volumes with thomistical studies assures the circumstances of such project.

The translation and its research in Romanian, under the supervision of qualified specialists in philosophy, theology and classical languages represents a reevaluation and a systematization of philosophical-theological Romanian terminology, a recovery of the medieval foundations of the modern culture, a renewal of the discussions on the impact of Greek philosophy over the principal theses of western theology and over the modern science birth and a joining of Romanian research with western tradition in medieval studies.

The important and universal state of this project consists in an underlining action and a maturation of reception capacity of Romanian culture regarding European modernity foundations through an assimilation of the problems which grounds this modernity in the medieval culture.