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neo-Thomism: see Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint (əkwī`nəs) [Lat. ..... Click the link for more information. . Neo-ThomismModern revival of the philosophical and theological system developed by St. Thomas Aquinas and his later commentators. Neo-Thomism follows Aquinas in distinguishing between the realms of nature (in which reason and philosophy hold sway) and supernature (in which faith and theology are dominant). Aquinas's thought was presented in philosophy and theology courses or manuals, especially in the Dominican Order, through the 17th and 18th centuries, though most manuals of this period were watered with the opinions of other Schoolmen and remained remote from modern concerns. The modern revival of authentic Thomism began in the 19th century under the influence of the Jesuits and the papacy, who sought a sound philosophical foundation on which to develop responses to contemporary intellectual and social problems. After the mid-20th century neo-Thomists attempted to develop an adequate philosophy of science, to take into account the findings of phenomenology and psychiatry, and to evaluate the ontologies of existentialism and naturalism. See also Jacques Maritain. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But much came from the university itself which (under the influence of several remarkable men--most of them American Irish, by the way) was teaching a humanities curriculum that instructed the National Champion football-playing sons of Catholic immigrants in neo-Thomism, the Greeks and Dante, as well as the English classics, and had us reading Bernanos, Mauriac, Acton, Pascal, Burke, Berdyaev, et al. He surveys the standard periods in which Thomas's work was most popular--from the great theologian's own time, when he had to defend his work, to the flourishing of Neo-Thomism in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Neo-Thomism tied it to a deep and sophisticated tradition of philosophic speculation; the international character of the church connected Americans (even if as distinctly junior partners) with the brilliance of the Catholic Revival - with writers as various and shining as Jacques Maritain, Christopher Dawson, and Georges Bernanos. |
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