Whig Thomism” and the Making of the Catholic Neoconservative Movement

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ID6212464
AutoresJesse Russell (0000-0002-4856-2462, Georgia Southwestern State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas294-315
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitics and Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1755-0491 • E-ISSN: 1755-0483
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s175504832000019x
OpenAlexW3027862620
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas16

The writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, although widely noted for their clarity, are also rich and capacious enough to merit differing interpretations among scholars of good will and good faith. However, despite the noble intentions and praiseworthy work of the late Michael Novak and other Catholic neoconservatives, their marketing of St. Thomas Aquinas as the “first Whig” appears to sever elements of the Angelic Doctor's philosophy from its essential principles. Although jealously guarding the nobility of conscience and the interior life, St. Thomas envisioned a political community that was decidedly hierarchical and in which the faith was to be shepherded by the state, which itself was charged with suppressing heresy and dissident thinking. These political ideas, moreover, are rooted in the very heart of St. Thomas Aquinas's deepest philosophical and theological principles

CLARITY · Conscience · Epistemology · Faith · Nobility · Political science · Politics · Theology · Thomism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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