Thomism

American  

[toh-miz-uhm] / ˈtoʊ mɪz əm /

noun

1. the theological and philosophical system of Thomas Aquinas.

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Thomism British  

/ ˈtəʊmɪzəm /

noun

1. the comprehensive system of philosophy and theology developed by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, and since taught and maintained by his followers, esp in the Dominican order

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Thomism Cultural  

1. The philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, or other philosophies inspired by his. Thomism underwent a revival starting in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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Other Word Forms

• Thomist
  noun
• Thomistic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Thomism

Thom(as Aquinas) + -ism

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Thomism

We’ll leave Thomism to the theologians, but subsidiarity is a concept that the left would do well to consider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2016

The result was a blend, in one Catholic critic's words, of "Thomism and the split T."

From Time Magazine Archive

Even before the Second Vatican Council, some progressive Catholic theologians were abandoning the kind of worshipful Thomism Tracy describes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rahner and other defenders of Aquinas argue that it was the church's rigid conservatism and generations of slavish and unimaginative imitators that gave Thomism its bad name.

From Time Magazine Archive

His appreciation of Catholic speculation was natural and sincere; his dogmatic ancestry is to be looked for in Thomism and Catholic humanism as much as anywhere.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard