Nineteenth-Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas

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“Even though, with its striving to bring about a new synthesis between reason and faith, Catholic Romanticism had rediscovered one of thirteenth-century scholasticism's fun damental concerns”

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“Students took up his ideas and subsequently spread them beyond Piacenza.”

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“whereas Johann Adam Möhler (1796-1838) repeatedly cited evidence from Thomas in his Symbolik.”

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“The Jesuit Giovanni Maria Cornoldi (1822-92) had studied both in Piacenza and subsequently in Rome (Malusa 1986-9).”

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  cites Malusa 1986-9

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“This is particularly evident in the five-volume dogmatics by the Mainz dogmatist Bruno F. L. Liebermann (1759-1844), which was regarded by some of his contemporaries as still belonging to the bld school' of methodology (Peitz 2006a: 32)”

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  cites Peitz 2006a: 32

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“he aimed to give a contemporary shape to Thomist thought, which he himself employed in his teaching without ever putting it in published form.”

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“The Piacenza-born secular priest Vincenzo Buzzetti (1777-1824) taught there from 1806, first of all philosophy, then from 1808 until his death in 1824 dogmatics (Peitz 2006b).”

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“even though it no longer displays any discernible interest in a speculative deepening of the traditional contents (Walter 2018).”

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  cites Walter 2018

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“The unmistakable inspiration of Franz von Baader (1765-1841) by Thomas Aquinas has not yet been fully investigated.”

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“which were often still written in Latin, and they con tinued to contain many of the structural principles, concepts and theses of scholasti cism, though focusing on 'positive' theology.”

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“he aimed to give a contemporary shape to Thomist thought, which he himself employed in his teaching without ever putting it in published form.”

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“As a representative o f strict Thom ism in Belgium at the tim e o f Leo XIII, one can cite the D om inican A ntoninus M. D u m m erm u th , who m ade a nam e for him self w ith a bulky w ork on the praemotio physica (D um m erm uth 1886), directed against the M olinist exposition given by the G erm an Jesuit G erhard Schneem ann (1829-85), w ho was living in Leuven at the tim e (Schneem ann 1879;”

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  cites Dummermuth 1886
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  cites Schneemann 1879; 1880

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“emphasizes that this does not imply a rejec tion of modern scientific progress.He leaves scope for departures from scholastic think ing where the latter proves no longer to be tenable, and calls especially for the study of the original sources.”

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“Mercier, w ho founded the Révue néo-scholastique as the insti tute's publication organ in 1894, advocated an open form o f A ristotelianism understood from the perspective o f scholasticism and open to m o d ern insights, w hich included dia logue w ith the natural sciences, and spoke out against a philosophy th at was too strongly constrained by theological guidelines.”

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“Almost all Catholic textbooks of philosophy and systematic theology in the last third of the nineteenth century are shaped by neo-scholasticism and endeavour to connect to Aquinas' thinking.”

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“The number of historical works dedicated to him also greatly increased.”

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“At their general chapters in the 1890s, the Dominicans formally adopted the resolution that they would orient themselves to their order's saint, and in 1898 prescribed a special oath of loyalty to the 'solid teaching of St Thomas' for their members.”

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“In 1889 the D om inicans had taken over the teaching at the newly founded University o f Fribourg in Switzerland.”

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“in 1876 the future cardinal firstpublished his Summaphilosophica, which was reprinted countless times and remained one of the most important manuals until after the First World War (Giammarino 1975).”

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“The perhaps most independent theologian within German neo-scholasticism was the Cologne seminary professor Matthias Joseph Scheeben (1835-88).”

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“The Oratorian Alphonse Gratry (1805-72) had 'through his enthusiastic reference to Thomas Aquinas prepared the way for neo-Thomism' (Grabmann 1933: 264) without its being possible to associate him properly speaking with this school of thought.”

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  cites Grabmann 1933: 264

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“His principal work is a seven-volume, partly posthumously published course on philosophy (Sanseverino 1862-8).”

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“Further important measures taken by Leo XIII to implement the concerns of Aeterni Patris were the elevation of Aquinas as the patron of Catholic schools in 1880 (Breve Cum hoc sit), the founding of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome in the same year, and of the Roman Dominican university, the Angelicum, in 1895 (Berger 2005:121-81).”

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  cites Berger 2005:121-81

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“The new tu rn to Thom as A quinas from about 1850 onw ards spread, in the form o f 'neo-Thom ism ' or rather 'neo-scholasticism ' , from Italy and G erm any and, being increasingly prom oted by the Church, shaped Catholic philosophy and theology for a century.”

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“A prominent figure in Spanish neo-Thomism was the Dominican Zeferino González (1831-94).”

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“The vernacular excerpt from the Summa by Frédéric Lebrethon (1812-79) was even honoured in its second edition (Lebrethon 1866-7), with a foreword by Pope Pius IX in which the neo-scholastic programme is con firmed.”

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“The rapidly produced first volumes of the Editio Leonina (i882ff) failed to satisfy even their contemporaries with respect to textual criti cism.”

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“He ensured its financing and entrusted the task to Cardinals de Luca, Simeoni, and Zigliara.”

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“From 1880, the world's first explicitly Thomist periodical, Divus Thomas, appeared in Piacenza under the aegis of Alberto Barberis (1847-96).”

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“The Roman college, however, proved itself pretty much incapable of producing any noteworthy academic personalities after Roselli, who had spent the last phase of his teaching career there.”

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“Kleutgen comprehensively extended the program m e o f philosophy and fundam ental theology to all areas o f dog matics, and presented the 'Theology o f the Past' (understood as tim e-transcending the ology) as also being a basis for overcom ing inner-theological rationalism .”

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“Its prim ary interest was systematic, not historical.”

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“The fruit of his reading of Thomas was a work on Aquinas' philosophy (Gonzalez 1864), which is accounted foundational for Spanish neo-scholasticism.”

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“Glossner's main work is his two-volume Lehrbuch der katholischen Dogmatik, published in 1874, in which he builds on the lecture manuscripts of his Eichstatt teacher Joseph Ernst but also endeavours to provide a more strictly Thomist presentation of the treatises and, above all in ecclesiology, places novel emphases.”

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“in 1876 the future cardinal firstpublished his Summaphilosophica, which was reprinted countless times and remained one of the most important manuals until after the First World War (Giammarino 1975).”

What the sources say

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“For the two main theological works, the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles, he ordered the commentaries by Cajetan and Sylvester of Ferrara to be reprinted with them, thus supporting the interpretive tradition of the Dominican school.”

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“The renewal of Thomism in Belgium is inextricably linked to the nam e o f Désiré-Joseph M ercier (1851-1926) (Van R iet 1988), w ho w as a p p o in te d in 1882 to a c h air for Thom ist philosophy in Leuven, w hich had been established in the wake o f Aeterni Patris, and in 1889 becam e the first president o f the likewise newly established Institut Supérieur de Philosophie.”

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“All the same, there were as many as three French translations of the Summa theologiae published between 1850 and 1870 (C.J. Drioux, J. Carmagnolle, F. Lachat).”

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“His most important works on dogmatics, Die Mysterien des Christentums (1865) and the uncompleted Handbuch der katholischen Dogmatik (1873-1887), prove that although he was in every respect inspired by Thomas, he cannot be classed as a strict Thomist.”

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“This changed from the early 1850s, when he began to work on the edi torial staff of the periodical Civiltil cattolica, which at that time adopted an explicitly Thomist orientation.”

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“In 1840 Sanseverino founded the periodical La scienza e la fede in Naples, the purpose of which was to tackle various areas of intellectual life with the aim of defending the Catholic faith.”

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“In Lucerne, a Thomas Academ y was founded by C anon A nton P ortm ann .”

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“In 1846, again in his home town, Sanseverino in 1846 inaugurated Italy's first Thomist academy (Accademia di Filosofia tomista).”

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“In 1840 Sanseverino founded the periodical La scienza e la fede in Naples, the purpose of which was to tackle various areas of intellectual life with the aim of defending the Catholic faith.”

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“Sanseverino's friend Nunzio Signoriello (1820-89) became known above all as the author of a lexicon of scholastic terms (Signoriello 1864).”

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“In 1884, Maurice d'Hulst (1841-96), as the first rector of the Institut Catholique in Paris, founded a Société de Saint Thomas d' Aquin.”

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“The Revue thomiste, the strictly T hom ist character o f w hich becam e progres sively apparent, was launched as the faculty's jo u rn al in 1893.”

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“It was only w ith the beginning o f an historical-critical approach to m edieval studies at the end o f the nineteenth century that people learnt to understand Thom as once again in the context o f his own age, and also to take in account insights as to the way his works cam e into being.”

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“The repristination o f the post-T ridentine school debates (such as the dispute over grace) only rarely achieved th e ir form er com plexity and originality of reflection.”

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“Alongside providing this stim ulus, the neo-T hom ism that began in the nineteenth century had fu rth er m erits which, for all the justified criticism o f its unhistorical and restorative nature, should not be overlooked.”

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“in the 1870s he developed a course in philosophy written in the same spirit (Cornoldi 1872), which was translated into several languages and can be regarded as a prime example of rigid neo-Thomism in Italy.”

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“This is a presentation distinguished by its clarity and succinctness, albeit one in which-as so often in neo-Thomism-the controversies with modern philosophy confine themselves to rejecting summary theses.”

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“It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that this changed again, with Tommaso Maria Zigliara (1833-93), a young Dominican embarked on his studies in Rome who was to become one of the most famous neo-Thomist philosophers of his age.”

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“Thomas A quinas was an authoritative point o f reference for all neo-scholastics; however, the way in w hich he was interpreted often rem ained com m itted to the norm s laid dow n by the early m odern school tradition, being fu rth er constricted by concentrating on strict Thom ism on the one hand and selected authors o f the Jesuit school on the other.”

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“Its original concern was to construct an A r is to telian-scholastic p/ii/osopfow perennis in order to overcom e the m o d ern philoso phies that were perceived as endangering faith, and to restore the C hurch's authority against the claims to autonom y m ade by m o d ern reason.”

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“The reason for Liberatore's intellectual turnabout apparently lay in his studies of the history of philosophy as well as in his reception of the writings of Sanseverino and Clemens.”

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“It was a fruit o f neo-scholasticism , but at the sam e tim e one o f the roots o f its being overcome, bringing out as it did the historical contingency o f A quinas' th inking an d increasing awareness o f the variety o f scholastic tho u g h t that existed before and after Aquinas.”

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“The attem pts to present the Thom ist 'system' em ploying the m o d ern m ethodological ideal o f basing this on just a few underlying principles did serve to systematically penetrate the enor m ous volum e o f m aterial an d they also pursued didactic interests, b u t they often obscured the elem ents that did n ot com e from A quinas himself, and prevented the necessary differentiations th at w”

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“In the tw entieth century the innovative potential o f these factors gradually came m ore and m ore to fruition.”