The modern history of Thomism may be said to begin with the appearance of Leo XIII ’ s encyclical Aeterni Patris in August 1879. Thomas Aquinas, who was not mentioned until the mid
Our theme is the promise of Thomism. Aquinas is called the doctor communis or common doctor of Catholic theology for a reason. The universality and scope of his insight into realit
The greatest institutional contributions to Catholic philosophy in the modern English-speaking world have been made in the United States in the twentieth century. European influenc
For Thomas Aquinas, as for Aristotle, doing moral philosophy is thinking as generally as possible about what I should choose to do (and not to do), considering my whole life as a f
St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) was a Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was a member of the Order of Preachers (the “Dominicans”), a mendicant order founded specifically for pre
Deriving from Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Thomism is a body of philosophical and theological ideas that seeks to articulate the intellectual content of Catholic Chris
The only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, who came on earth to bring salvation and the light of divine wisdom to men, conferred a great and wonderful blessing on the world when,
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to kn
Thomism is the family of traditions of theological and philosophical thought deriving from the teaching and writings of the Dominican friar St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). There are two broad distinctions to be drawn within Thomism one of type and the other of period (though to some extent these overlap). Regarding type there is a difference between work that seeks to analyse, understand, complete, and apply the ideas of Aquinas himself; and work that draws on Aquinian thought to engage particular issues without restricting itself to what Thomas thought or would have thought, and which may hold that there are errors or gaps in his thinking. Turning to period differentiation there are the following: 1) original Thomism: the work of Aquinas himself and of those he influenced in the 13th and 14th centuries. 2) golden age Thomism: the work of generally Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) interpreters and developers of Aquinas philosophy and theology in the 16th and 17th centuries. 3) neo-Thomism: the revival of Thomistic thought in the 19th and 20th centuries following publication in 1879 of the Encyclical Aeterni Patris: On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy in Catholic Schools in the Spirit of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas in which Pope Leo XIII commended the study of Aquinas and the revival of the medieval tradition of philosophy ‘scholasticism’. 4) contemporary Thomisms of various kinds.