Word: thomism
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...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...
...which Western men might practically agree today, whatever its unifying power half a millennium ago . . . The greatest of those who are 'trying to bring it up to date,' Paul Tillich, is regarded as a heretic by many others who wish to return it to fundamentalism or Thomism...
Beyond Philosophy. Edith wanted to enter the Carmelite order immediately, but her spiritual advisers urged her to make use of her talents in the lay apostolate. She taught at several Catholic schools, lectured all over Germany and Austria on phenomenology and Thomism and the position of women in the church. (Said she of the priesthood of women: "Dogmatically, it seems to me that nothing could prevent the church from introducing such an unheard-of novelty...
Coffee feared that the "neo-Thomism" of several of the new professors would help drive out historical scholarship...
French theologians who showed signs of straying from traditional Thomism. But priests in overalls are different, and the Vatican's recent decision to withdraw them from their factories and filling stations set off a foofaraw of petition-drafting, letter-signing and complaining that the church was abandoning the worker...