School
Thomism
Overview
Thomism is the philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church.
In philosophy, Thomas's disputed questions and commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his best-known works. In theology, his Summa Theologica is amongst the most influential documents in medieval theology and continues to be the central point of reference for the philosophy and theology of the Catholic Church. In the 1914 motu proprio Doctoris Angelici, Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Church cannot be understood without the basic philosophical underpinnings of Thomas's major theses:
The capital theses in the philosophy of St. Thomas are not to be placed in the category of opinions capable of being debated one way or another, but are to be considered as the foundations upon which the whole science of natural and divine things is based; if such principles are once removed or in any way impaired, it must necessarily follow that students of the sacred sciences will ultimately fail to perceive so much as the meaning of the words in which the dogmas of divine revelation are proposed by the magistracy of the Church.
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Philosophers who discussed Thomism
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Francisco Suárez
- Bernard Lonergan
- Étienne Gilson
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Mortimer J. Adler
- John Finnis
- Thomas Aquinas
- Antoine Arnauld
- Pietro Pomponazzi
- Robert P. George
- Henry Corbin
- Anthony Kenny
- Edith Stein
- Gabriel Marcel
- Jacques Maritain
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Antonio Rosmini
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- Edmund Husserl
- C. Stephen Evans
- John of St. Thomas
- Josef Pieper
Related ideas
- Condemnations of 1210–1277
- Empiricism
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Analogy
- The Guide for the Perplexed
- Emotion
- Francisco Suárez
- School of Salamanca
- Bernard Lonergan
- Étienne Gilson
- God in Christianity
- Faith
- Beatific vision
- Avicenna
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- G. K. Chesterton
- Homicide
- Gregory Palamas
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophical realism
- Cartesianism
- Thomas Cajetan
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Aeterni Patris
- Charity (Christian virtue)
- Grace in Christianity
- Homicide
- Hope
- Motu proprio
- Theological virtues
- Thomas Cajetan
- Actus purus
- Henry of Ghent
- Self-defense
- Supersessionism
- Giles of Rome
- Ralph McInerny
- Catholic theology
- Archdiocese of Paris
- I Am that I Am
- Equivocation
- Martin Grabmann
- Neural oscillation
- Édouard Hugon
- Nouvelle théologie
- Secular clergy
- Université Laval