List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
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.
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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
- Sylvester Mazzolini (1456/7-1527)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
- John Mair (1467-1550)
- Thomas Cajetan (1469-1534)
- Francesco Silvestri (1474-1528)
- Thomas More (1478-1535)
- Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546)
- Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
- Peter Faber (1506-1546)
- Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
- Domingo Báñez (1528-1604)
- Franciscus Patricius (1529-1597)
- Luis de Molina (1535-1600)
- John of the Cross (1542-1591)
- Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)
- Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
- Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Péter Pázmány (1570-1637)
- John of St. Thomas (John Poinsot) (1589-1644)
- Michael Wadding (1591-1644)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- Matthias Tanner (1630-1692)
- Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Noel Alexandre (1639-1724)
- Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)
- Giovanni Battista Scaramelli (1687-1752)
- Peter Dens (1690-1775)
- Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
- Febronius (Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim) (1701-1790)
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714-1795)
Late Modern (born between 1750 AD and 1900 AD)
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- Patrick Benedict Zimmer (1752-1820)
- Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
- Franz Xaver von Baader (1765-1841)
- Georg Hermes (1775-1831)
- Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854)
- Anton Günther(1783-1863)
- Izidor Guzmics (1786-1839)
- Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica (1792-1861)
- Luigi Taparelli (1793-1862)
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797-1855)
- Francis Xavier Patrizi (1797-1881)
- Franz Anton Staudenmaier (1800-1856)
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
- Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865)
- Félix Dupanloup (1802-1878)
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802-1861)
- Orestes Brownson (1803-1876)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805-1872)
- Giuseppe Pecci (1807-1890)
- Karl Josef von Hefele (1809-1893)
- Jaime Balmes (1810-1848)
- Pope Leo XIII (Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (1810-1903)
- Joseph Kleutgen (1811-1883)
- Louis Veuillot (1813-1883)
- Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
- Franz Jakob Clemens (1815-1862)
- John Dobree Dalgairns (1818-1876)
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823-1894)
- Nicholas-Joseph Laforêt (1823-1872)
- Albert Stöckl (1823-1895)
- Joseph Hergenröther (1824-1890)
- Charles Émile Freppel (1827-1891)
- Constantine von Schäzler (1827-1880)
- Ernest Hello (1828-1885)
- Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (1829-1888)
- Tommaso Maria Zigliara (1833-1893)
- Franz Brentano (1838-1917)
- Léon Ollé-Laprune (1839-1898)
- Caspar Isenkrahe (1844-1921)
- Henry Denifle (1844-1905)
- Vladimir Solovyov (Soloviev) (1853-1900)
- Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856-1912)
- Maurice Blondel (1861-1949)
- Antonin Sertillanges (1863-1948)
- Henri Brémond (1865-1933)
- Maurice De Wulf (1867-1947)
- Paul Claudel (1868-1955)
- Aleš Ušeničnik (1868-1952)
- Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
- Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- Max Scheler (1874-1928)
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
- Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
- Rudolf Allers (1883-1963)
- Étienne Gilson (1884-1978)
- Romano Guardini (1885-1968)
- Christopher Dawson (1889-1970)
- Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973)
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977)
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
- Charles Journet (1891-1975)
- Edith Stein (1891-1942)
- Louis de Raeymaeker (1895-1970)
- Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
- Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
- Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983)
- Austin Woodbury (1899-1979)
- František Tomášek (1899-1992)
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)
- Louis Beirnaert (1906-1985)
- 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)
- Gustave Martelet (1916-2014)
- Walker Percy (1916-1990)
- Avery Dulles (1918-2008)
- G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001)
- Conrad Baars (1919-1981)
- Emerich Coreth (1919-2006)
- Henry Dumery (1920-2012)
- 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-)
- Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
- Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
- Louis Dupre (1925-1998)
- 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-)
- 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-)
- 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-)
- John Finnis (1940-)
- Bas van Fraassen (1941-)
- Angelo Scola (1941-)
- John P. Meier (1942-)
- Jacek Salij (1942-)
- Jean-Luc Marion (1946-)
- Thomas Weinandy (1946-)
- Chantal Delsol (1947-)
- Eleonore Stump (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-)
- Yves-Marie Adeline (1960-)
- David Oderberg (1963-)
- Hector Zagal (1966-)
- Józef Stala (1966-)
- Denis Moreau (1967-)
- Edward Feser (1968-)
- Ulrich L. Lehner (1976-)
See also
- List of Catholic authors
- Doctors of the Church
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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