Thomism and the Magisterium: From Aeterni Patris to Veritatis splendor
2002; University of St. Thomas; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/log.2002.0043
ISSN1533-791X
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoFROM THE TIME OF ALEXANDER IV (r. 1257-1261) the popes have been continuing champions of the method and doctrine of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), the Doctor Communis (or Common Doctor), and have found them to be of great assistance in combating intellectual movements inimical to the Church. Two of the most energetic and aggressive of these movements in more recent times have been rationalism and modernism, movements priding themselves on their emancipation from authority and on their unrestricted exercise of freedom of thought. This exercise, they maintained, proved the fallacy of the Catholic conviction of the harmony between supernatural faith and natural reason. Rather, there was a disharmony, apparent if not real, between them—resoluble only, according to the rationalists, by reason eliminating faith, and, according to the modernists, by faith adapting to reason.
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