Fergus kerr 『Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians』

Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians

Reason under Oath

The essential thing, for Catholic theologians born between 1890 and 1940, was that they should be grounded in 'thomistic philosoph'.p1
...them against infection by the idealist, subjectivst and positivist philosophies, which were held to have created 'the modernist crisis'.p1
...lectures in philosophy and theology, delivered in Latin, by professors who treated everything according to the method, doctorine and principles of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
...swore the Anti-modernist Oath imposed in 1910.p1
...framed in terms of the Twenty-four Thomistic Theses. pp1-2
...neoscholastic theology 'identified truth and life with immutability and ratioality; it opposed being to history and ignored concreteness in human life and in the economy of salvation'.For neothomists, as for Enlightenment philosophers, appealing to experience, tradition and historical studies was the wrong way to get to truth.p2