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

As time passed, the Chicago Fight earned the university various tags�"Chicago Thomism," "Aristotelianism on the Midway," the "Return to the Middle Ages."

From Time Magazine Archive

He points out that "it was not Thomas himself who was rejected, but Thomism as the only legitimate school of theology and philosophy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Brilliant Neo-Thomists like the French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson had given Thomism a modern relevance.

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