neo-Thomismn.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈtəʊmɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈtoʊˌmɪz(ə)m/ A new or modern advocacy, revival, or development of Thomist principles in philosophy and theology.
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1899 Philos. Rev. 8 92 In the final chapter, the history of neo-Thomism is sketched.
1915 London Q. Rev. Jan. 51 Neo-scholasticism is essentially ‘Neo-Thomism’.
1959 K. Rexroth Bird in Bush 106 Before Neo-Thomism became a fad with French journalists.
1986 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Trav. in Hyper Reality ii. 70 Neo-Thomism..can also be perceived as a transparent source of inspiration, behind many kinds of formal and logical thinking in contemporary secular philosophers.
2000 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 33 277 Neo-Thomism emerged in the 1850s and 1860s as the official philosophical and theological perspective of the Catholic Church, a position which was confirmed by the decrees of the first Vatican Council (1869–70).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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