Le renouveau thomiste de la théologie morale dans l’entre-deux-guerres. La présence oubliée des moralistes du Saulchoir dans le Dictionnaire de théologie catholique (II)

Abstract

Published from 1899 until 1950 by Letouzey and Ane Editions, since the 60s, the Dictionnaire de théologie catholique has been considered the receptacle of a retrograde and outmoded Catholic moral theology. Based on the contributions of the Dominicans Thomas Deman and Jean Tonneau, two illustrious representatives of the Saulchoir school, the present article shows that the Dictionnaire de theologie catholique, even if it accepted articles of moral theology with a quite classical, and even casuistic, approach until the end of it publication, nonetheless opened its columns to innovative ethics contributions which, in returning to a Thomistic ethics of virtues and prudence, tried to put an end to the older ethics of obligation and conscience.