List of Catholic philosophers and theologians

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Ancient
  • Ambrose
  • Athanasius of Alexandria
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • Benedict of Nursia
  • Boethius
  • Clement of Alexandria
  • Cyprian
  • Cyril of Alexandria
  • Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • Irenaeus
  • Jerome
  • John Cassian
  • John Chrysostom
  • John Climacus
  • John of Damascus
  • Justin Martyr
  • Maximus the Confessor
  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  • Origen
  • Paul the Apostle
  • Tertullian
Postclassical
  • Peter Abelard
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Anselm of Canterbury
  • Roger Bacon
  • Bede
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Berengar of Tours
  • Bonaventure
  • Catherine of Siena
  • Duns Scotus
  • John Scotus Eriugena
  • Pope Gregory I
  • Gregory of Rimini
  • Giles of Rome
  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Hugh of Saint Victor
  • Isidore of Seville
  • James of Viterbo
  • Jean Buridan
  • Meister Eckhart
  • Nicholas of Cusa
  • Nicole Oresme
  • Paul of Venice
  • Paschasius Radbertus
  • Peter Lombard
  • Roscellinus
  • Symeon the New Theologian
  • Thierry of Chartres
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • William of Ockham
Modern
Contemporary
  • Mortimer J. Adler
  • Peter Geach
  • G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Pope Benedict XVI
  • Maurice Blondel
  • G. K. Chesterton
  • Yves Congar
  • Frederick Copleston
  • Henri de Lubac
  • John Finnis
  • Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
  • Étienne Gilson
  • René Girard
  • Gustavo Gutiérrez
  • Nicolás Gómez Dávila
  • Romano Guardini
  • John Haldane
  • Dietrich von Hildebrand
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Bernard Lonergan
  • Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Gabriel Marcel
  • Jean-Luc Marion
  • Jacques Maritain
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • Emmanuel Mounier
  • Josef Pieper
  • Karl Rahner
  • Edith Stein
  • Charles Taylor
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar

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This is a list of Catholic philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their works. The names are ordered by date of birth in order to give a rough sense of influence between thinkers.

Ancient (born before 500 AD)[]

  • Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50 – between 98 and 110)
  • Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60 – c. 163)
  • Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69 – c. 155)
  • Justin Martyr (100–165)
  • Irenaeus (130–202)
  • Clement of Rome (died 99)
  • Clement of Alexandria (150–215)
  • Tertullian (155–222)
  • Origen of Alexandria (184–253)
  • Cyprian of Carthage (200–258)
  • Aphrahat (270–345)
  • Athanasius of Alexandria (296–373)
  • Hillary of Poitiers (300–368)
  • Ephrem the Syrian (306–373)
  • Basil of Caesarea (329–379)
  • Gregory Nazianzus (329–390)
  • Gregory of Nyssa (335–395)
  • Ambrose (340–397)
  • Jerome (347–420)
  • John Chrysostom (347–407)
  • Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
  • Cyril of Alexandria (378–444)
  • Isaac of Antioch (451–452)
  • Boethius (477–524)

Early Medieval (born between 500 AD and 1100 AD)[]

Anselm
  • Pope Gregory I (540-604)
  • Isadore of Seville (560-636)
  • Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
  • Bede (672/3-735)
  • John of Damascus (675/6-749)
  • Radbertus (785-865)
  • Anselm of Canterbury (1033/4-1109)
  • Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
  • Adelard of Bath (1080-1152)
  • Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
  • Peter Lombard (1096-1160)
  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

High Medieval (born between 1100 AD and 1450 AD)[]

Thomas Aquinas
  • Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253)
  • Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226)
  • Alexander of Hales (1185-1245)
  • Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)
  • Henry of Ghent (1217-1293)
  • Roger Bacon (1219/20-1292)
  • Bonaventure (1221-1274)
  • Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
  • Ramon Llull (1232-1315)
  • Giles of Rome (1243-1316)
  • Godfrey of Fontaines (1250-1306/9)
  • James of Viterbo (1255-1307)
  • Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1302)
  • Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
  • John Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
  • William of Alnwick (1275-1333)
  • William of Ockham (1287-1347)
  • William of Ware (1290-1305)
  • Henry Suso (1295-1366)
  • Jean Buridan (1300-1358/61)
  • Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373)
  • Albert of Saxony (1320-1390)
  • Nicole Oresme (1325-1382)
  • Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
  • Jean Gerson (1363-1429)
  • John Capreolus (1380-1444)
  • Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

Renaissance and Early Modern (born between 1450 AD and 1750 AD)[]

Erasmus
René Descartes

Late Modern (born between 1750 AD and 1900 AD)[]

Portrait of Newman by John Everett Millais, 1881
Max Scheler
Stein in 1938 or 1939

Twentieth and Twenty-first Century[]

Mortimer J. Adler
Joseph Ratzinger
Alasdair MacIntyre in 2009
  • Heinrich Schlier (1900-1978)
  • Jean Guitton (1901-1999)
  • Mortimer Jerome Adler, converted to Catholicism in 2000 (1902-2001)
  • Christopher Butler (1902-1986)
  • Józef Maria Bocheński (1902-1995)
  • Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
  • Yves Simon (1903-1961)
  • Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
  • Graham Greene (1904-1991)
  • Josef Pieper (1904-1997)
  • John Courtney Murray (1904-1967)
  • Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
  • Yves Congar (1904-1995)
  • Osvaldo Lira (1904-1996)
  • Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
  • Jean Danielou (1905-1974)
  • Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950)
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
  • Charles De Koninck (1906-1965)
  • Frederick Copleston (1907-1994)
  • Bernard Philip Kelly (1907-1958)
  • Bernard O'Brien (1907-1982)
  • Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
  • Hélder Câmara (1909-1999)
  • Cornelio Fabro (1911-1995)
  • Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
  • E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977)
  • Anna Terruwe (1911-2004)
  • George Duggan (1912-2012)
  • Karel Vladimir Truhlar (1912-1977)
  • Walter J. Ong (1912-2003)
  • Louis Bouyer (1913-2004)
  • Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994)
  • R. C. Zaehner (1913-1974)
  • Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009)
  • John Hardon (1914-2000)
  • Thomas Berry (1914-2009)
  • W. Norris Clarke (1915-2008)
  • Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
  • Vincent Miceli (1915-1991)
  • Peter Geach (1916-2013)
  • Walker Percy (1916-1990)
  • Avery Dulles (1918-2008)
  • G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001)
  • Conrad Baars (1919-1981)
  • Emerich Coreth (1919-2006)
  • Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005)
  • Joseph Fitzmyer (1920-2016)
  • Catharina Halkes (1920-2011)
  • Milan Komar (1921-2006)
  • Thomas Molnar (1921-2010)
  • Xavier Tilliette (1921-2018)
  • Jean Delumeau (1923-2020)
  • Jacques Dupuis (1923-2004)
  • Ernest Fortin (1923-2002)
  • Vekoslav Grmič (1923-2005)
  • René Girard (1923-2015)
  • Alice von Hildebrand (1923-2022)
  • Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
  • Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
  • Louis Dupre (1925-2022)
  • Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
  • Servais Pinckaers (1925-2008)
  • Juan Luis Segundo (1925-1996)
  • Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
  • Robert Bork (1927-2012)
  • Robert Spaemann (1927-2018)
  • Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (1927-)
  • Raymond E. Brown (1928-1998)
  • Mary Daly (1928-2010)
  • Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-)
  • Hans Kung (1928-2021)
  • William E. May (1928-2014)
  • Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
  • Nicholas Rescher (1928-)
  • James V. Schall (1928-2019)
  • Ralph McInerny (1929-2010)
  • Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-)
  • Germain Grisez (1929-2018)
  • Ignacio Ellacuría (1930-1989)
  • Joseph A. Bracken (1930-)
  • C. J. F. Williams (1930-1997)
  • Charles Taylor (1931-)
  • Fergus Kerr (1931-)
  • Ferdinand Ulrich (1931-2020)
  • Joseph de Torre (1932-2018)
  • Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
  • Walter Kasper (1933-)
  • Joan Chittister (1936-)
  • Michal Heller (1936-)
  • John Rist (1936-)
  • Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009)
  • Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)
  • Peter Kreeft (1937-)
  • Leonardo Boff (1938-)
  • Jon Sobrino (1938-)
  • Mariano Artigas (1938-2006)
  • Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938-)
  • David Tracy (1939-)
  • Joseph A. Komonchak (1939-)
  • John Finnis (1940-)
  • Bas van Fraassen (1941-)
  • Angelo Scola (1941-)
  • Elizabeth A. Johnson (1941-)
  • John P. Meier (1942-)
  • Jacek Salij (1942-)
  • Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943-2012)
  • Jean-Luc Marion (1946-)
  • Thomas Weinandy (1946-)
  • Chantal Delsol (1947-)
  • Eleonore Stump (1947-)
  • Mary Shawn Copeland (1947-)
  • Aidan Nichols (1948-)
  • Martin Rhonheimer (1950-)
  • William Desmond (1951-)
  • Jay Budziszewski (1952-)
  • Cyril O'Regan (1952-)
  • Catherine LaCugna (1952-1997)
  • John Joseph Haldane (1954-)
  • Tina Beattie (1955-)
  • Robert P. George (1955-)
  • Marie-Jo Thiel ((1957-)
  • Gavin D'Costa (1958-)
  • Robert Barron (1959-)
  • Yves-Marie Adeline (1960-)
  • David Oderberg (1963-)
  • Helen Alford (1964-)
  • Hector Zagal (1966-)
  • Józef Stala (1966-)
  • Denis Moreau (1967-)
  • Edward Feser (1968-)
  • Ulrich L. Lehner (1976-)

See also[]

References[]

  • The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Second Edition). Martin Gale; 2006. ISBN 0-02-865780-2
  • The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 1998. ISBN 978-0-415-07310-3
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. January 16, 2010
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