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

• Authors: Redpath Peter A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

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

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 625-650

Dates

published

2020-12-30

Contributors

author

Redpath Peter A.

• Aquinas School of Leadership, Cave Creek, AZ, USA

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Identifiers

ISSN

2300–0066

ISSN

2577–0314

DOI

10.26385/SG.090426