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

• 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

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.