God’s Latin Plagiarist

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Eamonn P. Gaines

In the 19th Century, the Church in Europe sought to rebuild after the depredations of the Napoleonic years. One of the significant figures of that reconstruction was Jacques-Paul Migne (1800-1875) whose cheap and cheerful collections of the Church Fathers of East and West remain the backbone of ecclesiastical study. PL and PG are still ubiquitous in the footnotes of texts theological and philosophical. The title above is a nod to the biography published by R Howard Bloch some years ago, where Migne’s somewhat freewheeling attitude to using other peoples’ work was elucidated. The comparative scarcity of the actual volumes themselves makes the advent of the internet a great boon, and the presence of the Internet Archive in particular.

Some years ago, in another place, I prepared a list of volumes of the Patrologia in both the Latin and Greek series, and posted them online. I have rescued those lists and I am in the process of reviewing and expanding them. I shall repost them, in stages, here for anyone who might find them beneficial. A full list of authors for each volume can be found in Wikipedia.

About Eamonn P. Gaines

I am a graduate of UCD, and Maynooth University. I have taught philosophy and latterly, theology for the last twenty years. My teaching career has spanned both universities at Maynooth, the Queen's University Belfast, the Redemptoris Mater, Dundalk, St Malachy's Seminary, Belfast, the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, the Dominican Studium (Dublin) and the Priory Institute, Tallaght. I have also been a guest lecturer at the University of Klaipeda, Lithuania. I am or have been a member of the Irish Philosophical Society, the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Cáirde Thomáis Naofa, the Bioethics Study Group Ireland, The Guild of Catholic Scholars and the Third Order of St Dominic. I am at present researching and writing on the concept of persona in the Latin Christian intellectual tradition, leading to a PhD from the University of Limerick. Thereafter I hope to embark on an intellectual biography of the Thomist philosopher, social scientist and churchman, Jeremiah Newman (1926–1995).
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