From Unity to Pluralism

Through an in-depth study of four key figures - Pierre Rousselot, Joseph Marechal, Jacques Maritain, and Etienne Gilson - From Unity to Pluralism traces the evolution of Thomism in the first half of the twentieth century. Through their work, Thomisism encountered contemporary thought and rediscovered its authentic roots, and the ideal of a univocal, unitary doctrine of Scholastic truth embodied in the unambiguous teachings of Thomas Aquinas, which had inspired the Thomist revival at the end of the nineteenth century, gradually gave way. The result is the emergence of pluralism within the system itself and the independent development of the theologies of Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan.

Author: Gerald A. McCool
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.07w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780823212422

About the Author
Gerald A. McCool, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, is recognized historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Neo-Scholasticism. He has published extensively on Kleutgen, Liberatore, Rousselot, Marechal, Gilson, Maritain, Rahner, Lonergan, and other representatives of philosophy and theology in the tradition of St. Thomas. His Rahner Reader is widely used in American colleges and universities.