This list of Thomist writers runs from the 13th to the 18th century, stopping short of neo-Thomism. It includes writers who engaged with the thought of

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas ( ; ; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Catholic priest, priest, the foremost Scholasticism, Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the W ...

, but might not strictly be considered

Thomist Thomism is the philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Thomas's disputed questions ...

thinkers. ''Source'': The ''

Catholic Encyclopedia ''The'' ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'', also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedi ...

'' of 1913, article ''Thomism''. The listing is chronological, by date of death.

Thirteenth century

Thomas de Cantimpré Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

* Hugh of St Cher *

Vincent of Beauvais Vincent of Beauvais ( or ; ; c. 1264) was a Dominican friar at the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont Abbey, France. He is known mostly for his '' Speculum Maius'' (''Great mirror''), a major work of compilation that was widely read in the Middl ...

* St Raymond de Pennafort * Peter of Tarentaise (Pope) * Giles de Lassines * Reginald de Piperno * William de Moerbeka * Raymond Marti * Bernard de Trilia * Bernard of Hotun, Bishop of Dublin * Dietrich of Apolda * Thomas of Sutton

Fourteenth century

Peter of Auvergne Peter of Auvergne (died 1304) was a French philosopher and theologian. Life He was a canon of Paris; some biographers have thought that he was Bishop of Clermont, because a Bull of Boniface VIII of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris a certain ...

* Nicholas Boccasini,

Benedict XI Pope Benedict XI (; 1240 – 7 July 1304), born Nicola Boccasini (Niccolò of Treviso), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 October 1303 to his death on 7 July 1304. Boccasini entered the Order of Preachers in ...

Godfrey of Fontaines Godfrey of Fontaines (Latin: Godefridus de Fontibus, born sometime before 1250, died 29 October 1306 or 1309), was a scholastic philosopher and theologian who was designated by the title Doctor Venerandus. He made contributions to a diverse range ...

* Walter of Winterburn *

Ægidius Colonna Giles of Rome (; ; – 22 December 1316) was a medieval philosophy, medieval philosopher and Scholasticism, Scholastic theologian and a friar of the Order of St Augustine, who was also appointed to the positions of prior general of his ord ...

* William of Paris *

Gerard of Bologna Gerard of Bologna (died 1317) was an Italian Carmelite theologian and scholastic philosopher. A convinced Thomist, he took a doctorate in theology in 1295 at the University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as t ...

* four biographers **

Peter Calo Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

William de Tocco William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is ...

Ptolemy of Lucca Tolomeo Fiadoni (better known as Ptolemy of Lucca, sometimes Bartholomew of Lucca; – ) was an Italian historian and political theorist. Biography Ptolemy was born in Lucca in the 1230s. The year 1236 is given in late sources, but may well ...

Bernard Guidonis Bernard Gui (), also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis (c. 1261/62 – 30 December 1331), was a Limousin Dominican friar, Bishop of Lodève, and a papal inquisitor during the later stages of the Medieval Inquisition. Biography Most ...

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

Natalis Hervieus Hervaeus Natalis (, Nédellec, diocese of Tréguier, Brittany1323), also known as de Nédellec, was a Dominican theologian, the 14th Master of the Dominicans, and the author of a number of works on philosophy and theology. His many writings inc ...

* Petrus de Palude * Thomas Bradwardin *

Robert Holkott Robert Holcot, OP (c. 1290 – 1349) was an English Dominican scholastic philosopher, theologian and influential Biblical scholar. Biography He was born in Holcot, Northamptonshire. A follower of William of Ockham, he was nicknamed the ''Doctor ...

John Tauler Johannes Tauler OP ( – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian. He belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland mystics. He promoted a certain neo-platonist dimens ...

Henry Suso Henry Suso, OP (also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse or Heinrich von Berg in German; 21 March 1295 – 25 January 1366) was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth c ...

Thomas of Strasburg Thomas of Strasbourg (also known as Thomas de Argentina; ) was a fourteenth-century scholastic philosopher. Biography Thomas entered the Augustinian Order at Haguenau and taught at Strasbourg for several years. About the year 1337 he went to P ...

* Jacobus Passavante * Nicholas Roselli * Durandus of Aurillac * John Bromyard * Nicholas Eymeric

Fifteenth century

* Manuel Calecas * St Vincent Ferrer * John Dominici *

Jean Gerson Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Cou ...

Luis of Valladolid Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

* Raymond Sabunde * John Nieder * Dominic of Flanders * John de Montenegro *

Fra Angelico Fra Angelico, O.P. (; ; born Guido di Pietro; 18 February 1455) was a Dominican friar and Italian Renaissance painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his ''Lives of the Artists'' as having "a rare and perfect talent" ...

Antoninus of Florence Antoninus of Florence (1 March 13892 May 1459) was an Italian Dominican friar who served as Archbishop of Florence in the 15th century. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Life He was born Antonio Pierozzi (also called de Forc ...

Nicholas of Cusa Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (), was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first Ger ...

* John of Torquemada *

Bessarion Bessarion (; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated ...

Alanus de Rupe Alan de la Roche (Ecclesiastical Latin: ''Alanus de Rupe''; French language, French: ''Alain'' – 8 September 1475) was a Breton-born priest and Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest, Catholic myst ...

Johann Faber Johann Faber (1478 – 21 May 1541) was a Catholic theologian known for his writings opposing the Protestant Reformation and the growing Anabaptist movement. Biography Johann Faber, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Leutkirch, Swabia and ...

* Petrus Niger * Peter of Bergamo * Jerome Savonarola

Sixteenth century

* Felix Faber * Vincent Bandelli * John Tetzel * Diego de Deza *

Sylvester Mazzolini Sylvester Mazzolini, in Italian Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, in Latin Sylvester Prierias (1456/1457–1527), was a theologian born at Priero, Piedmont; he died at Rome. Prierias perished when the imperial troops forced their way into t ...

* Francesco Silvestro di Ferrara * Thomas de Vio Cajetan * Conrad Koellin * Chrysostom Javelli *

Santes Pagnino Santes (or Xantes) Pagnino (Latin: Xanthus Pagninus) (1470–1536), also called Sante Pagnini or Santi Pagnini, was an Italian Dominican friar, and one of the leading philologists and Biblical scholars of his day. Biography Pagnino was born 1470 ...

Francisco de Vitoria Francisco de Vitoria ( – 12 August 1546; also known as Francisco de Victoria) was a Spanish Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian, and jurist of Renaissance Spain. He is the founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of Sala ...

* Franc Romseus *

Ambrosius Catherinus Lancelotto Politi (religious name Ambrosius Catharinus, 1483–1553) was an Italian Dominican Order, Dominican canon lawyer, Theology, theologian and bishop. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia describes Catharinus as a "brilliant eccentric", and ...

St Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the So ...

* Matthew Ory * Dominic Soto *

Melchior Cano Melchor Cano (1509? – 30 September 1560) was a Spanish Scholastic theologian. Cano's most important theological work was his posthumously published ''De locis theologicis'' (Salamanca, 1563), a major contribution to the New Scholasticism of ...

* Ambrose Pelargus * Peter Soto * Sixtus of Siena *

* St Pius V * Bartholomew Medina * Vincent Justiniani * Maldonatus * Juan Maldonado * St Charles Borromeo *

Louis of Granada Louis may refer to: People * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer Other uses * Louis (coin), a French coin * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also * ...

Bartholomew of Braga Bartholomew of Braga (3 May 1514 – 16 July 1590), born Bartolomeu Fernandes and in religious Bartolomeu dos Mártires, was a Portuguese Catholic and a professed member from the Order of Preachers as well as the Archbishop Emeritus of Braga. Fe ...

Toletus Francisco de Toledo (4 October 1532 in Cordoba, Andalusia, Cordoba (Crown of Castile, Castille) – 14 September 1596 in Rome) was a Spanish Society of Jesus, Jesuit priest and theologian, Biblical exegete and professor at the Roman College. He ...

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Francisco de Toledo Francisco Álvarez de Toledo ( Oropesa, 10 July 1515 – Escalona, 21 April 1582), also known as ''The Viceroyal Solon'', was an aristocrat and soldier of the Kingdom of Spain and the fifth Viceroy of Peru. Often regarded as the "best of ...

), cardinal *

Peter Canisius Peter Canisius (; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles. The ...

* Thomas Stapleton, Doctor of Louvain * Molina

Seventeenth century

* Domingo Báñez * Bart Ledesma *

Baronius Cesare Baronio, C.O. (as an author also known as Caesar Baronius; 30 August 1538 – 30 June 1607) was an Italian Oratorian, cardinal and historian of the Catholic Church. His best-known works are his ''Annales Ecclesiastici'' ("Ecclesiast ...

* Capponi a Porrecta * Aur Menochio *

Petr Ledesma Petr is a Czech form of the masculine given name Peter and a surname. For information on Petr as a first name, see Peter (given name). Given name * Petr Aven (born 1955), Russian billionaire banker, economist and politician * Petr Čech (born 1982 ...

Francisco Suárez Francisco Suárez (; 5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement. His work is considered a turning point in the history of second ...

Jacques Davy Duperron Jacques Davy Duperron (; 15 November 1556 – 6 December 1618) was a French politician and Roman Catholic cardinal. Family and Education Jacques Davy du Perron was born in Saint-Lô in Normandy, into the Davy family, which belonged to the Norman ...

Robert Bellarmine Robert Bellarmine (; ; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. He was one of the most important figure ...

Francis de Sales Francis de Sales, Congregation of the Oratory, C.O., Order of Minims, O.M. (; ; 21 August 156728 December 1622) was a Savoyard state, Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He became n ...

Hieronymus Medices Hieronymus Medices (or De Medicis), was a Roman Catholic philosopher and interpreter of the works of Thomas Aquinas; b. 1569 in Camerino, Umbria, the origin of his surname de Medicis a Camerino. Biography He was clothed with the Dominican h ...

* Lessius * Martin Becanus (Martin Verbeeck) * Malvenda * Thomas de Lemos * Alvarez *

Paul Laymann Paul Laymann (1574 – 13 November 1635 or 1632Historia Górnego Śląska. Polityka, gospodarka i kultura europejskiego regionu. Christine van Eickels, Sławomir Puk, ) was an Austrian Jesuit and moralist. Biography Laymann was born at ...

* Joann Wiggers * Nicholas Riccardi * Dominic Gravina * John of St Thomas *

Juan Martínez de Ripalda ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippi ...

* Francis Sylvius, Du Bois * Petavius *

Goar Goar (born before 390, died between 446 and 450) was a leader of the Alans in 5th-century Gaul. Around the time that the Vandals and other Alans under Respendial crossed the Rhine in 405 or 406, Goar's band of Alans quickly joined the Romans, an ...

Giovanni Stefano Menochio Giovanni Stefano Menochio (9 December 15754 February 1655) was an Italian Jesuit biblical scholar. Life Menochio was born at Padua, and entered the Society of Jesus on 25 May 1594. After the usual years of training and teaching the classics, ...

* Franc Pignatelli * De Lugo *

Bollandus Jean Bolland, SJ () (13 August 1596 – 12 September 1665) was a Flemish Jesuits, Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent hagiography, hagiographer. Bolland's main achievement is the compilation of the first five volumes of the ''Lives of ...

* Jammy * Thomas de Vallgornera *

Philippe Labbe Philippe Labbe (; 10 July 1607 – 16 or 17 March 1667) was a French Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological questions. Born in Bourges, he entered the Society of Jesus on 28 September 1623, at the age of 16. A ...

* Pallavicini * Busenbaum * Jean Nicolaï * Vincent Contenson * Jac Pignatelli * Vicente Ferre (d. 1682) * Passerini * Jean Baptiste Gonet * Louis Bancel *

Louis Thomassin Louis Thomassin (; ; 28 August 1619, Aix-en-Provence – 24 December 1695, Paris) was a French theologian and Oratorian. Life At the age of thirteen he entered the Oratory and for some years was professor of literature in various colleges of ...

* Goudin * Sfrondati * Quétif * Rocaberti * Casanate

Eighteenth century

* Jacques-Casimir Guerinois * Bossuet * Norisius, OSA * Thyrsus González * Antoine Massoulié * Du hamel * Wigandt * Piny * Lacroix * Carrières * Natalis Alexander *

Jacques Échard Jacques Échard (22 September 1644, in Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of Fr ...

* Livarius de Meyer * Benedict XIII * Th du Jardin * Hyacintha Serry *

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( Charles du Plessis d'Argentré) * Vincent Louis Gotti * Milante * Preingue * Concina * Charles René Billuart *

Benedict XIV Pope Benedict XIV (; ; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in May 1758. Pope Benedict X (1058–1059) is now con ...

* Cuiliati * Giovanni Vincenzo Patuzzi * De Rubeis * Touron * Thomas de Burgo * Gener *

Alphonsus Liguori Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congre ...

* Mamachi * Pietro Maria Gazzaniga (1722–1799)

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