Word: thomism
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...Thomas-Hill Books. Call it neo-Thomism. Recent additions include Senator John Danforth's Resurrection and Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. If ever we become tired of the Democrat/Republican two-party system, we could always mold American politics around the great Thomas-Hill divide...
...SURPRISE notwithstanding, this particular issue of Peninsula would be easier to take if it were a screaming fundamentalist screed against filthy perversions, and a ringing endorsement of Thomism redux. Then we could dismiss the whole exercise as the produce of over-educated and socially nervous young Miniver Cheeveys, forced to live in a world and age neither of their making nor liking, and who unfortunately have their own private magazine in which to publish their tantrums...
...them and all who read their works to know that I cannot take seriously their analysis either of the sexuality that is mine or the faith that is mine. The political agenda which pretends to a Burkean conservatism affronts my sense of an appropriate libertarian public polity, and their Thomism affronts my reformed and Protestant sensibilities...
...classic cosmological inquirer was Thomas Aquinas (1224-74), and the classic modern innovator is Canadian Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan, whose "transcendental Thomism" in Insight (Philosophical Library; $10) justifies Aquinas to the modern world through a complex philosophy of human understanding. Chicago's Mortimer Adler has long been interested in Aquinas' thought. Though not formally religious he nonetheless pondered the God problem for most of his 75 years before writing his readable How to Think About...
...looking for an aesthetic or political theory . . . applicable to the modern situation? Fine, read Thomas. Do you want an adequate contemporary theology? Master the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles." Even before the Second Vatican Council, some progressive Catholic theologians were abandoning the kind of worshipful Thomism Tracy describes. After the council had ushered in a new spirit of intellectual freedom in the 1960s, Thomas' fall into disfavor accelerated. His structured philosophy was criticized as too static, his rationality rejected for lacking the insights of existentialism. This year, at one typical U.S. Catholic seminary-St. Joseph...