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14 Evident Truths from the Organizational Genius of St. Thomas Aquinas
14 Evident Truths from the Organizational Genius of St. Thomas Aquinas

How “Born Again Thomism” Can Help Save the West from Cultural Suicide

Author(s): Peter A. Redpath
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Thomism; West; Enlightenment; neo-Thomism; Pope Francis; new evangelization; culture; end; communication; experience; genus; habit; induction; leader; leadership; nominalism;

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 625-650
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English