neo-Thomism

The revival and development from the second half of the 19th century of medieval scholastic philosophy is sometimes called neo-Thomism.

Under the pontificate of Pius X neo-Thomism became the blueprint for an approach to theology.

It departed from traditional neo-Thomism using relativistic historical analysis and engaging philosophical axioms, such as existentialism, or positivism.

He was one of the main philosophers of neo-Thomism in Slovenia and in Yugoslavia.

In the early twentieth century, neo-Thomism became official Catholic doctrine, and became increasingly defined in opposition to 'modernism'.

The growth in historical investigation into Thomas's thought led some to believe that neo-Thomism did not always reflect the thought of Thomas Aquinas himself.

He brought us the neo-Thomism of Jacques Maritain side by side with the profoundly Protestant views of Paul Tillich.

At the time universities were under the strong religious infuence and the most prominent thinker of this scool was Slovenian Aleš Ušeničnik, philosopher of neo-Thomism.

His 21-volume Catéchisme de la Somme théologique, 1919, which was translated into English in 1922, went far towards bringing the moral theory of Neo-Thomism to a wider audience.

The Circle was founded by a group of philosophers and theologians that, in distinction from traditional neo-Thomism, embraced modern formal logic and it applied to traditional Thomist philosophy and theology.

Frustrated by what he saw as the oppressive parochial Catholicism and the rigid neo-Thomism, Kolnai left Quebec in 1955 and returned to England on a Nuffield Foundation Travel Grant.

Robert N St Hilaire, 'Desire Divided: Nature and Grace in the Neo-Thomism of Pierre Rousselot', (PhD diss, Harvard Divinity School, 2008)

Rougier's objections to Neo-Thomism were not merely philosophical, however, but formed part of a general opposition to Christianity that he had already begun to develop during his adolescence under the influence of Ernest Renan.

Rougier's conventionalist philosophical position naturally led him to oppose Neo-Thomism, which had been the official philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church since the 1879 encyclical Aeterna Patris but was gaining particular momentum during the 1920s and 1930s.

An ardent defender and exponent of the teaching of Thomas Aquinas and an illustrious representative of Neo-Thomism, he set forth the traditional teaching of his school with clearness and skill, with some bitterness against the representatives of different views.

He completed his doctoral thesis on psychologism in 1914, influenced by Neo-Thomism and Neo-Kantianism, and in 1916 finished his venia legendi with a thesis on Duns Scotus influenced by Heinrich Rickert and Edmund Husserl.

Jean Daujat (Paris, 27 October 1906 - 31 May 1998) was a French philosopher of neo-Thomism, a disciple of Jacques Maritain, and the founder of the Centre d'études religieuses, the Center for Religious Studies, specializing in teaching Christian doctrine.

John Haldane gives an historic division of Thomism including 1) the period of Aquinas and his first followers from the 13th to 15th centuries, a second Thomism from the 16th to 18th centuries, and a Neo-Thomism from the 19th to 20th centuries.

Moreover we have the proverb that no one is elected to anything except to keep two other people out - and some of Cambridge doubted whether Stephen Neill for all his brilliance was reliable, and thought that neo-Thomism, despite the quality of Mascall's mind, was a retrograde movement in divinity.

Neo-Scholasticism (also known as neo-scholastic Thomism or neo-Thomism because of the great influence of the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas on the movement), is a revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Roman Catholic theology and philosophy which began in the second half of the 19th century.

The Thomist revival that began in the mid-19th Century, sometimes called "neo-scholasticism" or "neo-Thomism," can be traced to figures such as Angelicum professor Tommaso Maria Zigliara O.P., Jesuits Josef Kleutgen, and Giovanni Maria Cornoldi, and secular priest Gaetano Sanseverino.