How did you first encounter Fr Pinckaers and what role has he played in your life?
Well, there were some brothers who were already thinking of studying in Fribourg, when I was a student brother.
And... so I began to hear about this Belgian Dominican who was writing very interesting things.
It's one of the reasons I went on to use a scholarship I had won to study French,
so that I could read the Moral theology of this Belgian Dominican -- never thinking that I would ever study with him.
There was one first effort to maybe send me to do a year of study with him when he was still teaching,
but instead, I was sent to the north of Mexico and spent a year working in our parish there.
Then later -- when I was sent on after three years of Priesthood...
sent on to get the doctorate -- by then, one of his books had been translated, "The Sources of Christian Ethics,"
which I had encountered in Paris earlier and tried to struggle through with my just beginning French.
And I saw right away that here was someone who was reading Aquinas in light of his biblical and patristic sources,
and in many ways he had come to a conclusion similar to Alasdair MacIntyre.
Now, I think, it is not an exaggeration to say that when Fr Vincent Guallardo put "After Virtue" in my hands in 1984,
it changed the course of my Theological and Philosophical studies.
And... Fr Pinckaers was very clear to see that he was doing something theologically that was parallel to what Alasdair MacIntyre was doing.
And both MacIntyre and Pinckaers were in their own ways developing insights that were even earlier in... expressed by Elizabeth Anscombe:
that the way in which moral... the way in which philosophical ethics had been divided between questions of whether the act is useful ,
or whether you should follow rules; whether morality was about following rules or about utility.
Catholic theology -- in the aftermath of debates over Humanae Vitae -- had broken up into these two opposing camps that were very similar:
Proportionalists, who were basically looking at the consequences of an act,
or, the new Natural Lawyers, that were basically looking at formal rules; and morality was seen to be about those two things.
But Fr. Pinckaers and what Alasdair MacIntyre both intuited and discovered is:
that, actually, is from an... they -- both schools -- are following an impoverished view of the moral life;
and that you have to return to the great questions of human nature, human thriving and the acts that will promote human thriving.
So Fr. Pinckaers who was a shy man, in many ways, a timid man, was already in the 50s --
very quietly looking at the sources of Father... of Thomas Aquinas and of Moral Theology,
and returning to those sources and to the great questions of what does it mean to live a human life,
what is human flourishing, what is human happiness,
and what does the Gospel call us to: in the Sermon on the Mount, in the Pauline letters?
And that was attractive! I saw that, having been raised in the midst -- as a Theologian --
in the midst of those debates between Proportionalism and the new Natural Law -- I saw the return to virtue as the way out.
And it's a return to virtue that is rooted in the return to the great questions of human life:
What does it mean to live in human life? What are the traits of character and the actions that promote human flourishing ?
And he... he promoted that theologically, just as Ms Anscombe and Alasdair MacIntyre had done in...in Ethics.
He also in... I arrived on the scene here as a visiting doctoral student,
the year that Fr Pinckaers had retired and lost his assistant.
So I was able to be his unofficial assistant and learn his methods.
And one of the things he did to stay in shape and to clear his mind was to hike, and he would take me on these hikes.
I had no idea I would ever come back here, have the post that he had for 25 years here.
But I think he somehow intuited this.
And so he introduced me into his life, his biography: coming from a small Belgian village,
having been sent during the Second World War to a boarding school, having tried to be a seminarian;
and been...and I think, in many ways, shocked by the poverty of the theological instruction he was receiving;
and then being introduced to a moment of renewal in the Belgian Province.
It was that first wave of the ressourcement theology with Fr Louis Charlier,
and seeing a theological formation that was rooted in the reading of the Fathers of the Church,
in the reading of Scripture, and in Eucharistic adoration.
He makes it very clear: it was encounter of this holistic vision where the Scriptures were read,
where the Fathers were read, in the context of adoration of the Eucharist;
all of which drew him to leave the seminary and join the Dominicans.
And it was being actually initiated into those -- not just the...the ideas of Fr Pinckaers, but the practices of Fr Pinckaers:
his way of living the religious life -- have influenced me and stayed with me;
and I hope I can transmit them, share them to the next generation.
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