Word: thomism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your remarks on contemporary thought are the best defense for Thomism I have seen in a long time. Paradoxically, we still must look to a "medieval man" for solutions to the key 20th-century problems. In Thomism we find perfect solutions to the nature of the world, man, God, the after life, and moral norms that contemporary man, if he wishes to be meaningful to himself, must consider...
According to the teachers, academic freedom at St. John's is heavily restricted. Philosophy professors complain that the school insists upon a narrow, dogmatic approach to Thomism, using Aquinas only to criticize other thinkers. The university insists on the right to clear all articles and books to be published by faculty members...
...rarefied world of theological scholarship, the rigid scholasticism of 19th century Catholicism has given way to a more open form of Thomism, capable of incorporating insights from Freud, Dewey, Sartre and even Marx. During the past 20 years, Catholic Bible scholars have begun to catch up with their Protestant counterparts, now are beginning to work with non-Catholics on new interdenominational translations of Scripture. In the late Jesuit Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the church possessed a religious figure who attempted-with near success-to bridge the wall between modern science and traditional faith...