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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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For all kinds of reasons this European theological contextuality in several typical forms (Augustinian, Thomistic, Calvinistic, Pietistic) has been permitted to conduct itself throughout the inhabited world as if it were not contextual but universal.
For Tolkien's Catholic thinking, informed through his schooling by Catholic Thomistic philosophy, that means that he expresses the divine nature as fully as he can, according to his own capacity.
The distinguished converts found not merely refuge, but an armory, in the resurgent Italianate Catholicism of Cardinal Wiseman and the Thomistic revival promulgated by Pope Leo XIII.
 
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