Thomism

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Thomism is the philosophical and theological school based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, characterized by its synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine.

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Label Occurrences
Thomism canonical 29
Le Thomisme 1
St. Thomas Aquinas as primary guide for Catholic philosophy 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical school
theological school
associatedWithWork Summa Theologiae
Summa contra Gentiles
contrastsWith Cartesian rationalism
Kantian idealism
nominalism
coreDoctrine synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian doctrine
developedIn 13th century
emphasizes act and potency distinction
analogy of being
essence–existence distinction
harmony of faith and reason
metaphysics of being
natural law ethics
natural theology
realism about universals
endorsedByPope Pope Leo XIII
surface form: Leo XIII
field philosophy
theology
hasBranch analytic Thomism
Neo-scholasticism
surface form: neo-Thomism
hasKeyConcept natural law
participation in being
virtue ethics
hasMainInfluence St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
historicalPeriod High Middle Ages
influenced Catholic dogmatic theology
Catholic moral theology
analytic Thomism
natural law theory
Neo-scholasticism
surface form: neo-Thomism
influencedBy Aristotelianism
Augustinian theology
surface form: Augustinianism

Christian Platonism
surface form: Christian Neoplatonism
languageOfOrigin Latin
namedAfter St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
promotedBy Dominican friars
surface form: Dominican Order

Society of Jesus
recognizedBy Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Catholic Church
revivedByDocument Aeterni Patris
revivedIn 19th century
teaches existence of God demonstrable by reason
five ways of proving God’s existence
grace builds on nature
objective moral order
primacy of being (ens) in metaphysics
tradition Catholic philosophy
Scholasticism
usesPhilosophyOf Aristotle

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Étienne Gilson movement Thomism
Aeterni Patris promotes Thomism
this entity surface form: St. Thomas Aquinas as primary guide for Catholic philosophy
Aeterni Patris relatedTo Thomism
Angelicum academicTradition Thomism
Franciscan School contrastedWith Thomism
this entity surface form: Thomist School
Scotism rivalTraditionTo Thomism
Democrates Secundus by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda influencedBy Thomism
subject surface form: Democrates Secundus
quinque viae hasInfluenceOn Thomism
subject surface form: Quinque viae
Five Ways tradition Thomism
Gilson movement Thomism
subject surface form: Étienne Gilson
The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas originalTitle Thomism
this entity surface form: Le Thomisme