Saint Thomas Aquinas Rops set The years 1870 to 1939

The years 1870 to 1939 witnessed wave after wave of assault upon Christ and his Church

To confront and refute errors which fueled the storms of modernity: this was the mission of the Council

transcending and reconciling the dichotomies that shape the contemporary science and religion debate

Infused with the romantic

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Saint Thomas Aquinas Rops set The years 1870 to 1939By Gerald Vann, O. P. In the year 1879, Pope Leo XIII formally inaugurated the modern revival of Thomistic thought. Some sixty years later, this revival had yielded great fruit in Catholic circles. In secular circles, however, its insights had been largely ignored or misunderstood, and the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics taken instead as folly. This misapprehension, argues Gerald Vann, O. P., was the result of tragic misconception of