Saint Thomas Aquinas Rops set Scholasticism and Politics

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Saint Thomas Aquinas Rops set Scholasticism and PoliticsBy 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