Cowburn, John (2005) Personalism and Scholasticism. Marquette University Press. 211pp. ISBN 874626633
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This book is highly personal and I shall begin by saying who I am. I was born in Australia in 1927 and I entered the Society of Jesus in 1945. In 1947-49 I was taught Thomistic philosophy and was good at it. I then studied physics at Melbourne University and obtained a science degree. In the late nineteen-fifties I studied theology in Innsbruck and in the sixties I studied post-graduate philosophy in Louvain and Innsbruck, where I wrote a thesis on love. During this time, besides Karl Rahner's theology I discovered Martin Buber and Personalism. At first I added the new to the old, and in my thesis and in a book, Love and the Person (published in 1967), I proposed a synthesis of Thomism and Personalism. This helped a number of scholastically-trained people to accept personalist ideas, precisely because it did not ask them to reject Scholasticism, only to add Personalism to it. When in the sixties and seventies I taught philosophy, I found myself using Scholasticism less and less and I came to see defects in it. These have become more and more clear to me and this book is the result of long reflection on them. I expect it to be said that I have caricatured Scholasticism, or that what I say is true only of the most primitive "school Scholasticism"; in reply to this I ask readers to study the quotations which I give, which come from Thomas Aquinas, and leading twentieth-century Scholastic thinkers, and to judge them for themselves.
| Item Type: | Books / Monographs |
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| Keywords: | Philosophy, scholasticism, personalism, Christian doctrine |
| Fields of Research: | 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2203 Philosophy > 220315 Philosophy of Religion 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History) |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Type of Activity: | Pure Basic Research |
| Subjects: | A - Philosophy C - Systematic Theology |
| College/Association with University of Divinity: | UFT-JTC: United Faculty of Theology - Jesuit Theological College |
| Depositing User: | Repository Manager |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2009 02:45 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2012 02:19 |
| URI: | http://repository.divinity.edu.au/id/eprint/90 |
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