Joseph Kleutgen
German theologian
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Neoscholasticism
- In Scholasticism: Enduring features
…which was a German Jesuit, Joseph Kleutgen, who published a voluminous scholarly apology of patristic and Scholastic theology and philosophy and was also responsible for the outline of the papal encyclical Aeterni Patris of Leo XIII (1879), which explicitly proclaimed the “instauration of Christian philosophy according to St. Thomas.” The…
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Thomism
- In Thomism: Decline and revival through the mid-20th century
Taparelli d’Azeglio, Matteo Liberatore, and Joseph Kleutgen. Their own positions in epistemology, metaphysics, and social theory remained eclectic, but they did give impetus to the work of studying Aquinas and other Scholastics in the light of modern intellectual and social issues.
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