Word: aquinases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since its founding 57 years ago, Roman Catholic De Paul taught philosophy with the serenity of somnambulism. Its curriculum rested comfortably on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th century Italian theologian who established Aristotelian philosophy as a rational basis for Christian belief. At Chicago's De Paul...
During his lifetime (1881-1955), Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin achieved a professional reputation as a distinguished paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking man. Since the publication of The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14, 1959), its author has emerged as one of the century's...
"Born Witch Burner." A zealous New Dealer who was born on his father's farm in Clay County, Ala., Hugo Black managed to earn a law degree at the University of Alabama without ever going to college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer...
Unfaithful to Christ. The council was well aware of the bitter international reaction to the revisions when Cardinal Bea rose to present the amended draft for discussion. Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions. His...
Aquinas' soothing proposal did not end the argument. Martin Luther, like many other Protestant reformers, believed that hell was the fate of the un baptized of any age. So did a new generation of Catholic Augustinian thinkers and the heretical Jansenists of the 17th and 18th centuries, who dismissed...