RT Article
T1 Engaging the Neo-Thomist Revival: Considerations and Consequences for Theology and the Church
JF Horizons
VO 42
IS 2
SP 262
OP 294
A1 Rober, Daniel A.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1662986459
AB Neo-Thomism, the reading of Thomas Aquinas that became the dominant Catholic theological school in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was eclipsed during the Second Vatican Council but has recently seen a resurgence on the American scene, in terms of both publications and influence among the church hierarchy. This article explores that resurgence in terms of the history of neo-Thomism, the important texts that have come out of this new movement, and signs of its influence on the bishops. In so doing, it critiques the movement for failing to learn the lessons of its fall from favor-in particular, that it has relied on claims to orthodoxy based on authority rather than the power of its own arguments. This article thus argues that theologians should pay careful attention to this movement both to reassert the validity and importance of more contemporary theological methods and to encourage neo-Thomists themselves to develop a greater appreciation of methodological pluralism and reliance on the strength of arguments.
K1 Neo-Thomism
K1 Ressourcement
K1 Vatican II
K1 Ecclesiology
K1 Systematic Theology
K1 theologians and church authorities
K1 Theological Method
K1 twentieth-century theology
DO 10.1017/hor.2015.57