DIVUS THOMAS. – A journal of philosophy and theology published in Piacenza under the direction of the professors of the Alberoni College, Lazarists. It was founded in 1880, chiefly through the efforts of Prof. Alb. Barberis, C. M., to support the impetus given by Leo XIII to Thomistic studies through the encyclical Aeterni Patris.
Until 1899 it appeared in monthly issues of 16 pages in quarto format. In 1900 it reduced its format to octavo, broadened its program, and became bimonthly. In 1924 it resumed publication, which had been suspended in 1906, beginning a third series. During its more than fifty years of existence, D. T. made a valuable contribution to Thomistic studies and to sacred studies in general, securing the collaboration of distinguished Italian and foreign scholars. Initially published in Latin, it later admitted the modern languages as well. Each issue contains original articles, notes and discussions on particular points, reports on current questions, reviews of recent works, a survey of related journals, and news. The publication is highly regarded and widely circulated in Italy and abroad.
Giacomo Crosignani
DIVUS THOMAS. – Quarterly journal of Thomistic philosophy and theology, published by the Dominican professors at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Founded in 1887 by the Rev. Prof. Ernesto Commer, it was published in Münster under the title Jahrbuch für Philosophie und spekulative Theologie; the title D. T. was added as the principal title in 1914, and from that year until 1922 it was published in Vienna. The Dominican professors at the University of Fribourg began to participate in the editorial board in 1920 and became its editors in 1923 (3rd series, published in Fribourg). Since 1925 the journal has also published a carefully compiled Thomistic bibliography. Among the editors, G. Häfele, A. Horváth, and G. Manser deserve mention; among the contributors: M. Grabmann, G. Gredt, N. Del Prado, C. V. Schaefer. Agostino Scherzer