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Thomism

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Thomism

Philosophical and theological system developed by St. Thomas Aquinas. It holds that the human soul is immortal and is a unique subsistent form, that human knowledge is based on sensory experience but also depends on the mind's reflective capacity, and that all creatures have a natural tendency to love God that can be perfected and elevated by grace and application. In the 20th century, Thomism was developed by Étienne Gilson (1884–1978) and Jacques Maritain. After World War II, Thomists faced three major tasks: to develop an adequate philosophy of science, to account for phenomenological and psychiatric findings, and to evaluate the ontologies of existentialism and naturalism.



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Where Chesterton's life was marked by the bold strokes that we find in his own artistic style, from the first encounter with Evil to the eventual discovery of Thomism and complete acceptance of papal authority, Graham Greene's journey was as complex and ambiguous as his own writing.
The English spring of Catholicism by Caldecott, Stratford / Modern Age
She shared with Zenit why two schools of Thomism have differing visions of how the Church should respond to, and interact with, liberal institutions and culture, without being subsumed by them.
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Reason as argument, principles-based deduction, system building and other things was very much in place in the great 17th century philosophical systems, in the Protestant school theologies, and in Thomism.
Fundamentalism: a theory by Farley, Edward / Cross Currents
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