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Dominican Order
Overview
The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by the Castilian priest Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordo Praedicatorum, meaning of "the Order of Preachers". Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans, formerly known as tertiaries. More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries.
Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is known for its intellectual tradition and for having produced many theologians and philosophers. In 2024, there were 5,369 Dominican friars, including 4,073 priests. The order is headed by the master of the order who, as of 2022, is Gerard Timoner III. The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi are the Principal Patrons of the order.
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Now in God the divine essence is signified by way of a form, as above explained (A. 2), which, indeed, is simple and supremely one, as shown above (Q. 3, A. 7; Q. 11, A. 4). So, names which signify the divine essence in a substantive manner are predicated of the three persons in the singular, and not in the plural. This, then, is the reason why we say that Socrates, Plato and Cicero are "three men"; whereas we do…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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For the subject to command the sovereign, is to proceed in the inverse order; because the direct order is, for the sovereign to command the subject; and thus it is bitter, and not sweet; and because to the bitter command it is impossible to give sweet obedience, it is impossible, when the subject commands, for the obedience of the sovereign to be sweet.
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
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3. Those who impose fresh tolls on their lands. 10. Those who, in any way whatsoever, prevent the execution of the apostolical letters, whether they grant pardons or inflict penalties. 11. All lay judges who judge ecclesiastics, and bring them before their tribunal, whether that tribunal is called an audience, a chancery, a council, or a parliament. 12. All chancellors, counsellors, ordinary or extraordinary, of any…
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
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Philosophers who discussed Dominican Order
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Francisco Suárez
- Giordano Bruno
- Tommaso Campanella
- Simone Weil
- The Name of the Rose
- Bell hooks
- Peter of Spain
- Meister Eckhart
- Thomas Aquinas
- Francisco J. Ayala
- Pietro Pomponazzi
- Michael Dummett
- Jacques Maritain
- Walter Terence Stace
- Dante Alighieri
- Solomon ibn Gabirol
- Robert Kilwardby
- Boetius of Dacia
- John of St. Thomas
- Brian Davies (philosopher)
- Édouard Hugon
- Mark Montebello
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- Francisco de Vitoria
- School of Salamanca
- Jesus
- Fresco
- Francis of Assisi
- Giordano Bruno
- Thomas Cajetan
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Albertus Magnus
- Jerusalem
- Tommaso Campanella
- Kraków
- Johannes Tauler
- Middle Ages
- Michigan
- Caribbean
- Mexico City
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Augustine of Hippo
- Meister Eckhart
- Heresy
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Bologna
- Thomas Aquinas
Place in the tradition
Part of Confucianism.