List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
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[edit] Nature of list
This is a list of philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism was important to their work. Names that do not fit that criterion should be removed.
[edit] Medieval and Renaissance
- Adelard of Bath
- Albert of Saxony
- Alexander of Hales
- Augustine of Hippo
- Francis of Assisi
- Thomas Aquinas
- Bonaventure
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Peter Faber
- Jean Gerson
- Giles of Rome
- Godfrey of Fontaines
- Robert Grosseteste
- Henry of Ghent
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Peter Lombard
- Ramon Llull
- John Mair
- Sylvester Mazzolini
- Luis Molina
- Thomas More
- Franciscus Patricius
- Péter Pázmány
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Radbertus
- Matthias Tanner
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Michael Wadding
- William of Alnwick
- William of Ware
[edit] Enlightenment and Nineteenth century
- Noel Alexandre (Jansenist leanings)
- John Dobree Dalgairns
- René Descartes
- Augusta Theodosia Drane
- Félix Dupanloup
- Frederick William Faber
- Febronius (pseudonym of Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim)
- Charles Émile Freppel
- Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
- Izidor Guzmics
- Karl Josef von Hefele
- Joseph Hergenröther
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
- Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais
- Alphonsus Liguori
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Blaise Pascal
- Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
- Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Louis Veuillot
- Giambattista Vico
- Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
- Tommaso Maria Zigliara
[edit] Twentieth century and today
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Christopher Butler
- Hélder Câmara
- Michel de Certeau
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- G.K. Chesterton(started writing in the twentieth century)
- Frederick Copleston
- John Downey
- Henri de Lubac
- Henry Denifle
- Peter Dens
- Michael Dummett
- Jacques Dupuis
- Ignacio Ellacuría
- Dr. Daniel J. Garguillio
- Peter Geach
- Robert P. George
- René Girard
- Vjekoslav Grmic
- Romano Guardini
- John Hardon
- Hans Küng
- Catherine LaCugna
- Bernard Lonergan
- Alasdair Macintyre
- Gabriel Marcel
- Jacques Maritain
- Thomas Merton
- Vincent Miceli
- Emmanuel Mounier
- John Courtney Murray
- Henri Nouwen
- Walter J. Ong
- Colin O'Sullivan
- Karl Rahner
- Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Michael Scanlan
- Max Scheler
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Robert Spencer
- Michael Kheirabi, PHD
- Edith Stein
- Charles Taylor
- František Tomášek
- David Tracy
- Jean Vanier
- Bas van Fraassen
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- Bernie Ward
- Thomas Weinandy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)