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

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

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

Philosophy professors complain that the school insists upon a narrow, dogmatic approach to Thomism, using Aquinas only to criticize other thinkers.

From Time Magazine Archive

German Jesuit Karl Rahner, whose own considerable body of work is a creative blend of Thomism and the thought of such modern thinkers as Kant, Fichte and Heidegger, in fact deplores such obsequious veneration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomism and Augustinianism both hinge on the concept of gratia efficax ab intrinseco s. per se, whereas Molinism and Congruism will not admit even the existence of such a grace.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur