14 Evident Truths from the Organizational Genius of St. Thomas Aquinas: How “Born Again Thomism” Can Help Save the West from Cultural Suicide

14 Evident Truths from the Organizational Genius of St. Thomas Aquinas: How “Born Again Thomism” Can Help Save the West from Cultural Suicide

This paper is written to articulate in a summary form 14 evidently-known essential and personalistic principles from the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas needed, especially by Pope Francis, to understand a third period of neo-Thomism we are now in: Born-again, or Ragamuffin, Thomism. It maintains tha...

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Main Author: Peter A. Redpath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Étienne Gilson Society 2020-12-01
Series:Studia Gilsoniana
Subjects:
thomas aquinas
thomism
west
enlightenment
neo-thomism
pope francis
new evangelization
culture
end
communication
experience
genus
habit
induction
leader
leadership
nominalism
organization
part
philosophy
principle
proportionality
ragamuffin
science
sense
species
truth
unity
whole
wonder
Online Access:http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-936a23f1-f190-496f-bf07-6353fe10dba0?q=bwmeta1.element.cejsh-71f2742e-4b64-4a85-b7ed-e4287df10faa;3&qt=CHILDREN-STATELESS
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Summary:This paper is written to articulate in a summary form 14 evidently-known essential and personalistic principles from the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas needed, especially by Pope Francis, to understand a third period of neo-Thomism we are now in: Born-again, or Ragamuffin, Thomism. It maintains that, without application of these principles to the Church’s “new evangelization,” this movement will fail. With that failure the Church will be unable to halt the cultural suicide in which the West is presently engaged.
ISSN:2300-0066
2577-0314

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